Net notes: Maps

Street directories
http://www.whereis.com.au/
Use "Map Search" to search Australian street directories for a particular address, view the map online, and e-mail a copy to yourself. Choose "Directions" rather than "Map Search" if you want to know how to get from A to B via car or on foot. A map and clear written directions are provided as well as the estimated distance and time.

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/
Search by: street, post code, place (city, town or village), OS grid, Landranger grid, or latitude/longitude, for anywhere in the United Kingdom.

Gazetteers
Geoscience Australia - place name search
http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/

Gazetteer of British place names
http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html

Map projections
Information about the Peters Map, an alternative world map which cuts countries down to size by showing their area more accurately than the Mercator map, can be found at:
http://www.webcom.com/~bright/petermap.html

"Peters Projection vs. Mercator Projection. Part 2: Mercator Projection." Matt T. Rosenberg
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa030201b.htm

World
World Sites Atlas
http://www.sitesatlas.com/
Provides maps of countries and continents which vary in the level of detail. For example, the map of Australia included on the Oceania map only shows one feature which is Canberra. Some may question whether our capital city is really a "feature." The World Atlas offers rather basic physical and political maps.

UN Cartographic section
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm
Country and region maps are available in pdf (please note that they are slow to load), as is a map of current peacekeeping missions.

National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/

General
"Map History/History of Cartography: THE Gateway to the Subject"
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/gateways.html
This is definitely a site worth exploring for its useful commentaries and links to sites. It has links to map journals, conferences, map societies, directories, and all sorts of useful or interesting information. The claim to be "THE Gateway" is not hyperbole.

Camille Peters

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