Maps and GIS

Map reference sources

Gazetteers and place names servers | Addresses, locations, postal and zip codes servers | Distance and measures | Mapping organizations, associations and societies

Gazetteers and place names servers 

• United States
  • U.S. Gazetteer (U.S. Census Bureau)
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
• International
  • GEOnet Names Server (GNS)
  • Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
  • Canada Geographical Names
  • United Kingdom (The Gazetteer of British Place Names)

Addresses, locations, postal and zip codes servers 

• Geocoding Server (from Etak Co.)
• National Address Server
• ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information
• VISA ATM Locator

Mapping organizations, associations and societies 

• Association of American Geographers Home Page (AAG)
• The International Map Trade Association
• Map Societies Around the World
• American Geographical Society

Map libraries and publishers web pages 

• Map Libraries
  • Harvard Map Collection - List of Libraries & Geography Departments.
  • University of Minnesota John R. Borchert Map Library - List of Map Libraries on the World Wide Web.
• Map libraries associations
  • MAGERT (Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association)
  • SLA G&M (Special Libraries Association, Geography and Map Division)
  • Western Association of Map Libraries -(WAML)
  • ACMLA - (Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives)
  • IFLA; - (International Federation of Library Associations, Section of Geography and Map Libraries)
• Map publishers web pages
  • Map Publishers page - ACQWEB'S Directory of Maps and Travel Publishers
  • Map Vendors and Publishers page - from Duke University Libraries.
  • Vendors and Publishers page - from the University of Delaware Library.