http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/index.html
Type in a place name and find all sorts of maps relating to it: street, census, weather, historical weather, satellite, topographic, and much more. Most are interactive, allowing you to zoom in and out and re-center. Several also offer the option of purchase in large format print.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/expeditions/atlas/index.html
"Maps made for printing and copying." Choose the level (world, continent, country, state/province) and the detail to customize your printable map.
http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/gamaps.htm
Demographic, political, historical, physical and other maps from GeorgiaInfo, now available as part of the Digital Library of Georgia.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
Browse by geographic location, author, title or subject or search by keyword these historical maps from the Library of Congress.
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
A collection of scans of historical maps from UGA's own Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
Almost 6,000 historical and current maps available in digital format(s). From the library at The University of Texas at Austin.
"The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 8,800 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, childrens and manuscript maps."
http://www.maphistory.info/webimages.html
Gateway to numerous sites about the history of maps, online collections of maps, and "real world" map collections. Maintained by a former map librarian at the British Library.
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
From the Census Bureau, allows for a search by place name or zip code to reveal map and 1990 census information.
http://geonames.usgs.gov/index.html
"The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), developed by the USGS in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States and its territories. 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."
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/index.html
Contains information on places and geographic entities worldwide. Does not claim to be comprehensive, but is extensive.
Find out the distance, "as the crow flies", between any two places on Earth.
http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com
"High resolution USGS aerial imagery and USGS topographic maps" searchable by city or town name, street address, or by clicking location on a map.
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