Here are some other map sites which I recommend. This list is very far from complete. If you know of a site which you feel should be added, please let me know about it.
| The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | David Rumsey's Collection of Historical Maps and Atlases "The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 18,000 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented." |
| Ted's Vintage Art | A commercial site offfering "beautifully restored historic maps of over 1,000 states, counties & towns".
Vintage maps of US states, counties, cities and towns, with the creases etc. electronically removed. You can view them all on the web site, and zoom in on them. And you can buy them as high-quality reproductions, either rolled up and mailed in a cardboard tube, or framed and mailed flat. |
| The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection | Contemporary maps at the University of Texas The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection is a general collection of more than 250,000 maps covering all areas of the world. More than 5,000 map images from the collection are also available online, including the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Historical maps at the University of Texas and links to maps on other sites. |
| Edmaps.com | Historical maps of North America and Europe. Also links to many other maps, mainly historical. Site managed by Cristian Ionita of Laval University, Quebec. 57 self-created maps, over 100 scanned maps, many links to maps on other sutes. |
| Handatlas.de | Site managed by Martin Hensen, with text in German and English. Deals with German hand-atlases, using Jürgen Espenhorst's classification as published in Petermann's Planet. Thousands of images, some of bindings, most of maps. | 82 hand-drawn and hand-coloured maps of British rail junctions. This site has vanished. But at least some of the maps are now at Wikimedia Commons. |
| Hisatlas-Web: Historical and Political Maps, by Joaquín de Salas Vara de Rey | About 500 detailed political maps, concentrating on frontiers. |
| Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia (1910) | About 400 maps of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy |
| Images of early maps on the web | Over 1,200 links to images of early maps on the web |
| A Monarchia III. katonai felmérése | Hungarian. 282 maps covering Austria-Hungary and surrounding countries, all dated 1889-1917 |
| Clickable maps from FOTW | Over 250 clickable maps of continents, countries, provinces, counties etc. Done in great detail for this site about flags, and very good in themselves. |
| Топографиеская карта Украины, России, Беларуси | Russian. Large-scale maps of USSR, Bulgaria, Turkey |
| Ostland Atlas | 52 maps from an atlas published by the German government in 1942, showing the occupied Baltoc states. |
| MAPS4U.LT | Historic maps of Baltic States and neighbouring regions. |
| Europe and nations, 1815-1914 | 21 animated maps of European history. One of them, Europe at the time of the Congress of Vienna, is free, the rest you can buy as a package. |
| A "Periodical Historical Atlas" of Europe | 21 purpose-drawn historical maps of Europe covering 2,000 years, with some scans of old maps. Also links to other historical atlases |
| Japan GIS Resources | Thirteen modern and historical maps of Japan |
| Travel-time maps | Maps, some of them interactive, of British cities, showing travel time to the centre. |
With satellite or aerial photographs: | |
| Google Maps | A zoomable pannable map of the world. Lacks the attractive appearance of the other maps shown here; but it is easy to waste hours playing with it |
| Bing | Formerly Microsoft Virtual Earth. Another zoomable pannable map of the world. |