Search across selected geospatial resources, curated by librarians and geospatial specialists at ten research institutions in the Big Ten Academic Alliance. The resources include GIS datasets, web services, and digitized historical maps.
The ECAI Cultural Atlas Portal is a location to bring together the work of ECAI affiliates and atlases which are exemplars of the variety of cultural atlases currently being developed
A collection of over 800 examples of maps from Cornell University Library. These maps are intended primarily to influence opinions or beliefs rather than communicate geographic information.
One of the largest collections of maps, plans and topographical views in the world, numbering some 4.5 million, with a chronological spread of over 2,000 years.
Topographic Maps of Eastern Europe offers a collection of small and large scale historical maps of the lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Pale of Jewish Settlement in late Tsarist Russia. Thousands of communities can be found in these images where our ancestors lived and eventually left. It concentrates on the Jewish community.
A Federal body created in 1890 and established in its present form by Public Law in 1947 to "maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the Federal Government
The GNIS contains information about physical and cultural geographic features of all types in the United States, associated areas, and Antarctica, current and historical, but not including roads and highways.