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Reference - Maps
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Avis Maps
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- The car rental company gives you state and city road maps online. |
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Color Landform Atlas of the United States
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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names |
- Hierarchically arranged
geographic data that is global in scope. Site contains nearly 1 million place
names representing approximately 900,000 physical or political entities,
including continents, rivers, mountains, empires, nations, states, districts,
townships, cities, and neighborhoods. It provides vernacular, English, and
historical names; variant names in other languages; coordinates; as well as
brief notes with additional information about the places. Will be updated on an
ongoing basis. Place names often have associated display dates, which are short
notes describing when the name was used (e.g., medieval, Roman). - rs [from
Librarians' Index to the Internet] |
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Great Globe
Gallery |
- More than 60 views of the globe, complete with
geological data such as digital elevation models, sea surface temperatures, el
Nino, ice caps and permafrost formation, crustal boundaries and ring of fire,
and LOTS more. Megabytes to download, though. |
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Maps Depicting 1990 U.S. Census Bureau Statistics
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Maps in the
News |
- Find maps of places in the headlines. |
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Mapquest |
- Click on Tripquest, tell it where you are and where you want to go in the continental US
and it will calculate a road route for you. |
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U.S. Gazetteer |
- This gazetteer is used to identify
places to view with the Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the
1990 Census Lookup server |
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United States Cities City Net Index |
- Explore the United
States online using this comprehensive city guide. Cruise the virtual streets in
search of restaurants, museums, special events, maps, government offices,
schools, parks, and the like for each of the hundreds of cities listed here.
Tourists and locals alike can make use of this extensive guide. |
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World Wide Yellow
Pages |
- Factbooks, General Information, Atlases &
Statistics. |
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