Ready Reference:
Maps and Geography
| TITLE: |
The Geographic Learning Site |
| DESCRIPTION: |
Published by Office of the Geographer and Global Issues of
the U.S. Department of State, "An educational tool showing how geography affects
global affairs, using maps, articles, charts, photos, links and more to support
it."-Supplied by publisher. Requires special software "Flash" to view the
site. Text version is also available. This is a colorful and animated site. |
| KEYWORDS: |
geography, maps, global resource |
| TITLE: |
Geographic
Names Information System (GNIS) |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"Contains information about almost 2 million physical
and cultural geographic features in the United States. The Federally recognized name of
each feature described in the data base is identified, and references are made to a
feature's location by State, county, and geographic coordinates."-Title Screen. It is
searchable by feature, state,
or county name, feature type, population or elevation range, etc. |
| E-MAIL: |
gnis_manager@usgs.gov |
| KEYWORDS: |
geographic names, feature, distance, united states |
| TITLE: |
GEOnet Names Server |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"Provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping
Agency's (NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature names."-Title Screen. |
| KEYWORDS: |
geographic names, feature, distance, international |
| TITLE: |
Johnston-Lavis
Literature Collection |
| DESCRIPTION: |
This website
provides information about the collection of rare books on
volcanology and geology which was formerly owned by the volcanologist,
Dr
Henry James Johnston-Lavis (1856-1914). The Johnston-Lavis collection
is
held at University College London. The website also includes images
from a
selection of the texts. |
| E-MAIL: |
Amy Robinson amy.robinson@ucl.ac.uk |
| KEYWORDS: |
volcanoes,
geology, books, vesuvius |
| TITLE: |
How
far is it? |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"This service uses the University of Michigan Geographic
Name Server and a supplementary database of world cities to find the latitude and
longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow
flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map
Server."-Title Screen. |
| AUTHOR |
Darrell
Kindred |
| KEYWORDS: |
geographic distance |
| TITLE: |
Maps and Other
Geographical Aids |
| DESCRIPTION: |
Contains all kinds of resources around the world related to
maps and geography. |
| KEYWORDS: |
maps, geographic tools, international |
| TITLE: |
Ordnance Survey
UK) |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"Ordnance Survey is Great Britain’s national
mapping agency.... which covers the production, maintenance and marketing of a wide range
of maps and computerised (digital) map data and other information for business, leisure,
educational and administrative use."-Title Screen. It includes the section Mapping for Education
which provides information on geographic names, maps, and mapping news for United Kingdom. |
| E-MAIL: |
custinfo@ordsvy.gov.uk |
| KEYWORDS: |
geographic names, feature, maps, united kingdom |
| TITLE: |
Perry-Casta�eda
Library Map Collection |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"The Perry-Casta�eda Library Map Collection
(PCL 1.306)
holds more than 230,000 maps covering every area of the world. Many items in the
collection are listed in UTCAT, the UT Libraries Online Catalog." |
| E-MAIL: |
prascoe@uts.cc.utexas.edu |
| KEYWORDS: |
maps, international, united states |
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