Maps & Gazeteers

Directions to Fairfield University
http://www.fairfield.edu/about_directions.html

Driving directions from Interstate Rt. 95 and the Merritt Parkway, train information, and links to campus parking and accessibility information.

Expedia Maps
http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll?qscr=over

Road maps of North America and Europe and basic topographic maps of locations around the world.

Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
http://geonames.usgs.gov

Information for almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features of the United States of America and its territories.

Geography Network
http://www.geographynetwork.com

Dynamic maps, downloadable data, and advanced cartographic resources.

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

Names and additional information for almost 1 million places important to art, architecture, and material culture.

MapPoint
http://mappoint.msn.com

Detailed mapping and routing resource; results can be viewed, printed, e-mailed, or downloaded to Pocket PC PDAs.

MapQuest
http://www.mapquest.com

Detailed mapping and routing resource; results can be viewed, printed, e-mailed, sent to mobile phones, or downloaded to Palm OS PDAs.

Maps On Us
http://www.mapsonus.com

Detailed mapping and routing resource; includes interactive locator for shopping, dining, recreation, and similar interests.

Multimap
http://www.multimap.com

Detailed mapping and routing (Great Britain only) service; excellent street-level USA maps.

Surface Distance between 2 points of Latitude and Longitude
http://www.wcrl.ars.usda.gov/cec/java/lat-long.htm

Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Western Cotton Research Laboratory, you can enter two points by degrees, minutes or seconds, or two cities by country, and find out how far each is from the other.

Terraserver
http://terraserver.microsoft.com

Topographic maps for the United States of America with low-resolution black-and-white photographic imagery for most of the country and high-resolution photograhic imagery for selected urban areas.

TopoZone
http://www.topozone.com

Accesses detailed portions of USGS topographic quadrangles.

WorldAtlas.com
http://worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/howfar.htm

To determine the distance between two significant cities of the world, this website uses data from the US Census Bureau and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It presents that information in miles, kilometers, and nautical miles.

World of Maps
http://www.maps.ethz.ch

Portal for maps, gazetteers, map libraries, and cartographic history.

Yahoo! Maps
http://maps.yahoo.com

Detailed mapping and routing resource; directions results can be viewed, printed, e-mailed, or sent to Web-enabled mobile phones.

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