Library

Internet resources for maps

Scotland

• Map History/History of Cartography THE Gateway to the Subject - excellent link for information about early maps, including an extensive range of image sites. Updated weekly. 
• Charting the Nation : Preserving & Widening Access to Maps of Scotland and Associated Archives 1590 - 1740 - hosted by the University of Edinburgh, Dept. Geography
• Map images from the National Library of Scotland which includes:
  •  Air Photo Mosaics of Scotland (Ordnance Survey) 1944-1950 - aerial photographs of post-war Scotland
  • Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland, 1897-1909
  • OS Town Plans 1847-1895 - Over 1,900 sheets covering 62 towns
  • Pont Maps - a website devoted to Timothy Pont's manuscript maps of Scotland. The website includes biographical information on the main people associated with the maps, notes on the value of the maps for research on a range of themes (such as towns, place-names, architecture) and a detailed bibliography
  • Roy Military Survey of Scotland 1747-1755 
  • Slezer's Scotland - John Slezer's Engravings of Scotland in the 17th century 

Ireland

• Early Irish maps from the State Papers c.1558 - c.1610 - National Archives collection of over 70 maps, including the earliest mapping of Ireland

Great Britain

• Ordnance Survey Open Data products - Ordnance Survey provide a selection of free, downloadable, mapping of Great Britain for you to use for your own purpose. GB outlines with and without administrative boundaries are available in EPS, TIF, PDF, GIF and WMF format
• Old-Maps: Access to an extensive digital archive of Britain's mapping, covering First Edition Ordnance Survey County maps

England

County

• Printed Maps of Kent - Bibliography and Images of the County dating from 1575-1900, by Tony Burgess
• Historic maps of Lancaster - the Lake District, Morecambe and Lancashire c. 1577-1931. Lancaster University's online map collection

United States and Canada

• Electronic Map Library of California State University, Northridge - Maps of the US and of California
• Library of Congress - Maps and Collections with Maps
• National Atlas of Canada
• National Atlas of the United States - taken offline in 2014. Links to some of its products and services still available
• David Rumsey Map Collection - online map collection of 18th and 19th century maps of the Americas

International

• Alexandria Digital Library - rich source of particularly antiquarian maps
• d-maps - outline maps of countries and regions, in various versions (blank, with rivers, with administrative regions, etc) and in several formats
• Digital South Asia Library - includes maps from the Imperial Gazetteer of 1909
• Mapquest - travel directions
• NZTopo - freely available official New Zealand Topographic Maps
• United Nations Geospatial Network

Maritime

• National Maritime Museum - online collections contain more than 100,000 sea charts and maps dating from the medieval period to the present day

Gazetteers

• Australian Place Name Search - from Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM)
• Canada's Geographical Names - From Natural Resources Canada
• Columbia Gazetteer of the World
• Gazetteer for Scotland - Royal Scottish Geographic Society and the University of Edinburgh. Encylopedia of Scottish towns and villages, geographical features, historic sites and place names. Includes county mapping and modern council area mapping.
• U.S. Gazetteer - from the United States Census Bureau

GIS

• QGIS - free and open source geographic information system
• ArcGIS (ESRI)
• MapInfo (MapInfo Corporation)

Journals

• Caert-Thresoor: tijdschrift voor de geschiedenis van de kartografie in Nederland
• Cartographica Helvetica: fachzeitschrift fur kartengeschichte
• The Globe (Journal of the Australian Map Circle)
• Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography
• The Portolan (Journal of the Washington Map Society)
• Sheetlines - Journal of the Charles Close Society for the study of Ordnance Survey Maps

Looking for a Paper Map?

• GeoCenter Scientific Cartography
• East View Map Link
• Omni Resources Map and Physical Science Catalogue
• Stanfords

Map Libraries

UK

• Bodleian Map Room
• British Library
• Cambridge University Library Map Department
• National Library of Scotland Map Library Home Page
• National Library of Wales Map Collection
• Trinity College Dublin Map Library

USA & Canada

• Clark Map Library, Clark University
• Earth Science and Map Library, University of California Berkeley
• Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress
• Harvard Map Collection
• Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography
• New York Public Library Map Division
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas
• Thomas R. Smith Map Collection

International

• LIBER - Groupe des Cartothecaires

Map Publishers

United Kingdom & Ireland

• British Geological Survey (BGS)
• Ordnance Survey
• Ordnance Survey Ireland
• Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland
• United Kingdom Hydrographic Office

USA & Canada

• Natural Resources Canada 
• National Geographic Maps
• United States Geological Survey - including National Map
• United States Census Bureau -including Tiger Mapping Service

International

• International Map Industry Association

Societies

UK

• British Cartographic Society which includes:
  • Map Curators' Group of the British Cartographic Society
  • Directory of UK Map Collections
• Charles Close Society for the study of Ordnance Survey Maps which includes:
  • Sheetfinder - listing of OS maps for a certain location. Includes links to online maps where possible
  • Index sheets for Ordnance Survey maps
• Society of Cartographers

Overseas

• Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives