This page will help you find websites where you can create custom maps, free mapping applications, as well as online maps by region. If you are looking for more specific types of maps, try the Maps & GIS subject guide's Types of Maps section.
Custom Maps:
The following websites allow you to create custom maps.
American Factfinder: when you 'Get Detailed Data' there is an option for creating a map out of this data, from the 1990 and 2000 Census.
Tiger/Line Census WebGIS for the 1990 Census.
Social Explorer allows you to map many census variables from the 1940-2000 census.
UVA Historical Census Browser allows you to retrieve and map data from as far back as 1790.
National Geographic Xpeditions provides a way for you to print and customize maps of anything in the world at a variety of different scales.
Batch Geocode generates x/y coordinate data for anywhere in the world from spreadsheet location data (i.e. street addresses)--these points will then be put on a map for you to link to or the program will create a KML file for use in Google Earth.
Customized maps for any areas of Vermont may be created and printed using TIGER/Line Files on CD-ROM disks in the Main Library, Government Documents. If you need help with this material, please
ask a librarian for assistance.
Virtual Globe Applications
Several excellent applications have been released that combine aerial photography with other data layers and often include the ability to create your own data sets:
Google Earth: Google Earth allows you to look at many layers of excellent satellite and aerial photography as well as view and build KML files. Additional sites for finding KML files include Google Earth Community and Google Earth Hacks. You can map Census data for the United States using the gCensus tool available here. Versions of Google Earth for Mars and the Moon are also available.
NASA World Wind: This application is best suited for the sciences with the ability to look at aerial photograph as well as LANDSAT data and add ons that, among others, allow you to look at weather, earthquakes, and fire. You may also look at several planets, moons, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with this application.
ArcGIS Online: ESRI's answer to Google Earth and World Wind; this program has support for shapefiles.
Online Maps by Region:
General/World:
Perry-Castañeda Library of the University of Texas is an excellent site for a wide variety of thematic maps spanning the entire globe.
CIA political maps of the world.
Geography Network
Oddens' Bookmarks--Maps and Atlases
The UC Atlas of Global Inequality
USGS Global Visualization Viewer for satellite images from all over the world.
Gapminder allows you to visualize changes in a number of variables over time for world countries either on a graph or on a map.
Current and Historical: University of Alabama's online map library
Current and Historical: Harvard Library's page dedicated to Cartography and GIS Links is a good resource for a number of different sites.
Historic: David Rumsey's site is an excellent source for 18th and 19th century maps from all over the world, particularly in the Americas.
Vermont:
Vermont Center for Geographic Information--Map Center
Vermont Map: An extremely basic road map of the state with several inset maps of major cities/towns also available.
Historic: Middlebury College Library's digitized maps of Vermont
Historic: Vermont Landscape Change program catalogues images of historic Vermont and georeferences them.
USA:
Geodata.gov Portal
The National Map
Current and Historical: Library of Congress Geography and Map Reading Room as well as the Library of Congress American Memory Project.
Historic: The US Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980.
Middle East:
Current and Historic:
MidEast Web MapsHistoric:
Florida Library's Map CollectionHistoric:
Maps from the Jewish National and University Library
Africa:
Historic:
Northwestern University's collection of African maps.
Europe:
Historic:
Historic maps of the UKHistoric:
Historic maps of the UK and Australia