Maps / GIS

Local governmental resources
Local historical resources
Transit maps and information
Gazetteers
Map collections
Nautical charts
Geography education
GIS

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Columbia Gazetteer

Facts.com

Lands and Peoples

Sanborn Maps

Local governmental resources

Portland Maps: http://www.portlandmaps.com/

Property info for Portland including maps, tax information, crime data, school and park information and more
Clackamas County Geographic Information Systems (GIS): http://www.co.clackamas.or.us/gis/

Official site for Clackamas County, Oregon's GIS office. Includes local information and resources.
Metro's Data Resource Center: http://www.metro-region.org/pssp.cfm?progservID=7

Metro, the regional governmental entity for the Portland metropolitan area, maintains the Data Resource Center, giving information about the region's land, population and economy, and they provide state-of-the-art mapping and data services to local governments, citizens and businesses. These services and information are based on the Regional Land Information System (RLIS), Metro's Geographic Information System (GIS) and related socio-economic data models. Select MetroMap to access the online version of RLIS.
Metro Recycling and Waste Prevention : Find a Recycler: http://www.metro-region.org/article.cfm?articleid=1383

Need to recycle hazardous or special types of items? Fill out the online recycling questionnaire, and locate a list of recyclers in your area. Clicking on the name of the recycler will give contact information, what types of materials they recycle, and a map.
Multnomah County Geographic Information System (GIS): http://www.co.multnomah.or.us/dbcs/it/maps/

Official site for Multnomah County, Oregon's GIS office. Includes local information and resources.
The Oregon Map: http://www.ormap.org/index.cfm?opt=home

The Oregon Map (ORMAP) Project is a statewide property tax parcel base map. Includes information about business plans for each county assessor's mapping project, standards, and maps.
Planning Oregon: Oregon Sustainable Community Digital Library: http://oscdl.research.pdx.edu/

Portland State University, Metro, TriMet, and other organizations are working together to collect planning reports, maps, regional geographical data, digital images, other materials to create a central online repository for key urban planning documents for the Portland Metropolitan region.
Washington County, Oregon: Maps and Land Records: http://www.co.washington.or.us/deptmts/lut/gis/intermap/map_land.htm

InterMap, Washington County's interactive mapping and GIS project, allows you to view detailed maps of Washington County. You can view current city boundaries, school district boundaries, plan designations and many other map features

Local historical resources

Annexations to the City of Portland: http://www.portlandonline.com/shared/cfm/image.cfm?id=51673

Map of the City of Portland, created by Portland Online, showing the history of annexations to the city from pre-1881 to the present. PDF file; must zoom in to 150% to identify major streets.
Digital General Land Office Maps : University of Oregon Map & Aerial Photography Library: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/GIS/Data/Oregon/GLO"

Donation Land Claim maps of Oregon, including maps of the Portland area drawn in the 1850s.
Early Washington Maps : A Digital Collection from the Archives and Special Collections of the Washington State University Libraries: http://www,wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmaps.html

Includes some Portland maps and Oregon towns, in addition to maps of historic Indian Lands, reservations, and river charts of the Columbia.
End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center: http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/

The Oregon Trail Foundation provides history, heritage and tour information about the Oregon Trail.
Oregon Maps: boundless.uoregon.edu/digcol/ormaps
Road maps, physical geography maps and more from the collections of the Oregon State Library and the University of Oregon Library in honor of Oregon's Sesquicentennial.
Pacific Northwest Stream Survey: Photo Collection: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/digitalcollections/pacificNWstream/

A digital archive of over 1000 photographs taken of 390 streams in the Pacific Northwest by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries between 1934 and 1945.

Gazetteers

USGS: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS): http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic

Online gazetteer of the United States and territories, created by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Search by: Keyword, State, County, City, Feature Class, and Elevation. Information returned includes latitude, longitude, USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle title, and links to online maps through USGS, Google, Topozone, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's "Find the Watershed" service.
GEOnet Names Server: http://gnswww.nga.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp

An online gazetteer created by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to maintain a list of foreign names approved for usage by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to be used by federal agencies. Can search for undersea and hydrographic features, also. Information retrieved includes region code, designation code, latitude, longitude, area/country, UTM codes, Defense mapping sheet numbers.

Transit maps and information

MapQuest: http://www.mapquest.com/

Search for locations and driving directions worldwide.
Google Maps: http://www.google.com/maps

Search for locations and driving directions worldwide.
Streetmap.co.uk: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/

Maps and directions for travelling throughout the United Kingdom.
Google Transit: http://www.google.com/transit

Google maps with transit information from TriMet, Eugene-Lane County Transit District, Seattle-King County Metro, and other cities. Compares cost of driving vs. public transportation.
Direct-line Distance Calculator: http://www.indo.com/distance/

Calculate the distance between major cities in the U.S. and worldwide

Map collections

Historic Map Index : Broer Map Library: http://www.broermapsonline.org/members/mapindex/

The Broer Online Map Library links to over 100 collections; browse by country, or search by topic.
Color Landform Atlas of the United States: http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

Links to maps and other information for each state
David Rumsey Map Collection: http://www.davidrumsey.com/view.html

The David Rumsey Map Collection focuses on historical maps from around the world, with a special emphasis on the Americas of the 18th and 19th centuries.
maproom.org: http://www.maproom.org/index.html

maproom.org provides access to historical maps from a variety of sources, copyright free. Includes a small zoomify box above the map to zoom in on a specific region. Left click on the zoomify box, and drag it to the specific area.
The Library of Congress : American Memory Project : Online Map Collection: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
Maps cover a wide variety of topics and time periods, including panoramic maps of US cities from the mid-nineteenth century, maps of Revolutionary War and Civil War campaigns, and survey maps of the Pacific Northwest.
Oddens's Bookmarks: The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping: http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.html

Roelof P. Oddens, the curator of the map collection of Utrecht University, provides links to a huge number and variety of maps and map collections worldwide
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html

Maps of the world, countries, cities and historical maps
Planetware: Maps: http://www.planetware.com/maps.htm; Maps of countries, cities, and popular tourist destinations.
terraserver.com: http://www.terraserver.com/

terraserver.com provides access to maps from all over the world and from a variety of resources, including USGS and land satellite images; searches available include city and country search as default, county, township, coordinates, and zip code. Images are available in both high and low-resolution. Must subscribe to service in order to retrieve large scale maps.
United Nations Cartographic Section: http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm

United Nations peacekeeping, general operations, and world maps.
USGS Map Locator: http://store.usgs.gov/

Select "Map Locator", then search for USGS topographical maps you can view on screen or download in .pdf format.
Maps of Africa: 16th through 20th Century: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/collections/mapsofafrica/

A project of the Northwestern University Library's Government and Geographic Information and Data Services department. Search and browse maps of Africa, from the beginnings of European colonialism through independence.
The Unveiling of Britain: http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/unveiling/

A website created by the British Library's Collect Britain Project showcasing the history of British mapmaking, highlighting maps in their collections. An eye opening experience in understanding world views from ancient times to the present.

Nautical charts

Office of Coast Survey: Nautical Charts and Related Publications.: http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/

The Office of Coast Survey prepares nautical charts for navigation along waterways and coasts throughout the United States and its territories. This is the key access point for locating publications and corrections to published material. Move the cursor to the link in the left column: Nautical Charts and Related Publications. The following websites are links from this main site. Print copies of nautical charts available in the library, whether individual or in an atlas, are not suitable for navigation. Please see links down below to free websites for downloading nautical charts and software.
Office of Coast Survey : Chart Catalogs: http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/regional

Identify nautical charts by region or state, dates of latest revisions, and contact information for local sales agents for nautical charts and computer files.
Office of Coast Survey : On-Line Chart Viewer: http://ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/

After you identify the chart number and name in the chart catalog, you can access the up-to-date chart online through this viewer by selecting the region, then the chart number. Use the tools at the bottom of the chart to navigate, zoom in, and zoom out of the chart.
NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts (NOAA ENCs): http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/index.htm

Links to user agreement for downloading navigation charts; search for downloads by graphical browse (regional/state charts), or textual browse, by chart name and number. Need an electronic navigational chart viewer to use as a navigational chart.
NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts : Resources: http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/resource.htm

Links to free electronic navigational chart viewers, and popular GIS products that include ENC viewers.

Geography education

USGS National Atlas of the United States: http://nationalatlas.gov/

United States Geological Survey partnered with Environmental Systems Research Institute to create this interactive map. Collates spacial information from many governmental agencies on a variety of topics, including biodiversity, agriculture, transportation, population, geology, climate, and more.
NationMaster: http://www.nationmaster.com

NationMaster is a great source for statistics on individual countries and for comparisons between countries on a variety of topics including agriculture, economics, trade, energy, education, crime, media, mortality, health, and other topics. Includes outline maps of countries.
Map Machine: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/

Includes country maps, facts, flags & profiles; political and physical maps. Created by National Geographic
Map Projections: http://www.colorado.Edu/geography/gcraft/notes/mapproj/mapproj_f.html

This site offering definitions, descriptions and examples of different map projections comes from Peter H. Dana, The Geographer's Craft Project, Department of Geography, The University of Colorado at Boulder

GIS

Edinburgh Geographic Information Systems: http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/gishome.html

The University of Edinburgh Department of Geography provides information on all aspects of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), as well as useful links to other servers worldwide. There is also a dictionary of GIS terminology
ESRI Library: http://www.esri.com/library/

ESRI, a big producer of GIS software, offers ESRI product literature, GIS reference materials, and many other resources to help you learn more about GIS and ESRI. The site includes a GIS glossary and a Jump Station which provides links to GIS-related Web sites
GIS Data Depot: http://www.gisdatadepot.com/

A commercial site offering free GIS downloads and custom CD creation
Geographic Information Systems: http://info.er.usgs.gov/research/gis/title.html

A USGS site that explains Geographic information systems (GIS), its functions and applications
GreenInfo Network: http://www.greeninfo.org/

The goal of GreenInfo Network is to help non-profits make the best use of computer mapping and information technology so that they are more effective. They provide public health, social service and environmental non-profits with GIS tools to more effectively carry out their missions by providing them with services, data, training, and other forms of support.
Mike's GIS on the Net: http://fox.nstn.ca/~mkostiuk/gispage.html

Canadian geographer's collection of GIS-related links on the Internet
State and County QuickFacts: http://quickfacts.census.gov/

U.S. Census Bureau statistics, with a searchable map

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Transit maps and information

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Nautical charts

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