Cartography -
the Art of Making Maps, the Science of Where You Are
Cartography Web Sites
This page contains links to the sites used in the Cartography series, as well as other useful or related sites.
Earth Photographs and Images
Bill Arnett's
Pictures of Earth
. (The NASA Apollo 11 photograph is also available from his
image directory
.)
The
Earth Image Index
from Los Alamos National Laboratory.
EarthRISE
, a searchable database of photographs taken by astronauts in space.
University of Washington GAP Analysis Project
(Washington State Landsat image).
USGS EROS Data Center
allows you to browse and select Landsat and aerial images.
Maps
The University of Iowa Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research
Maps and References
page.
Line maps from the
Xerox PARC Map Viewer
University of Washington Gap Analysis Project
(Washington State species habitat maps).
Color Landform Atlas
by Ray Sterner at Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory.
The
Interactive Atlas
from
Mapquest
.
The Peters Projection
presents a map of the Earth where equal areas on the map represent equal areas on the Earth.
Gazetteers and Atlases
The US Census Bureau's
U.S. Gazetteer
for locations in the United States.
The
Interactive Atlas
from
Mapquest
.
Other links
National Weather Service
Forecast Office in Seattle
.
Related Information
Cartography
Table of Contents
Technical Terms
in this series
Up to
Geography: Observing and Representing the Earth
Written by:
Rob Westcott
,
Hugh Anderson
, and
Lorraine Johnson
.
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Last Modified Fri Jan 24 23:21:10 1997