Maps and Atlases
Major Links | Americas | Canada | Ontario | Toronto and Local Area | United States | Europe | World
- CanMatrix – Digital Topographic Maps of Canada. Georeferenced or Print-Ready
- Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research (University of Iowa)
- Geographic Network Live Map Service (online “interactive” maps of Canada, Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick)
- Geology (online reference maps covering the United States and the world, published by Hobart M. King, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Geology at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania).
- Google Earth
- Google Maps
- Infomine Maps and GIS (University of California)
- NASA World Wind (Note: A downloadable 3-D tool that lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth)
- Odden’s Bookmarks: World of Maps and Mapping (Utrecht University)
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (University of Texas at Austin)
- World Map of Social Networks (a brand new map of the world, showing the most popular social networks by country, according to Alexa and Google Trends for Websites traffic data – June 2012
- The World of Maps: Internet Catalogue “Maps – worldwide” (Editorship: Map Collection of the ETH Library Zurich)
- WWW Virtual Library: map history / History of Cartography
- WWW Virtual Library: Remote Sensing
- York University Campus
By Geographic Area:
- Panoramic maps of cities in the United States and Canada (from collections in the Library of Congress)
- Atlas du Québec et des ses régions
- Atlas–Immigration and metropolis (demographic overview of the Montreal Metropolitan Area, based on the 1996 Census)
- Atlas of Alberta railways
- The Atlas of Canada (previous editions titled: National Atlas of Canada)
- The Atlas of Canada:The 39th Federal Election, Provisional Results
- Canadian First Nations maps
- Elections Canada (40th General Election: Preliminary Election Results )
- Freshwater maps (Environment Canada)
- The Geological atlas of the Western Canada sedimentary basin
- Great Lakes: an environmental atlas and resource book (3rd ed., 1995)
- Historical Atlas of Canada Online
- In search of your Canadian past: the Canadian County Atlas Digital Project(searchable database of historical county atlases including the Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of York,1878.)
- MIRAGE ( Map Image Rendering D Atabase for GEoscience) is a digital image library of Geological Survey of Canada maps
- National Air Photo Library (NAPL)
- National Atlas of Canada (current edition titled: The Atlas of Canada)
- Natural areas atlas (Victoria, B.C. capital region)
- Statistical profile of Canadian communities
- Tectono-metamorphic map of the Canadian Shield
- Toporama (digital topographic raster data)
- The Changing Shape of Ontario: a Guide to Boundaries, Names and Regional Governments (Archives of Ontario) includes maps and tables illustrating changes to Ontario’s borders and political composition
- Crown Land Use Policy Atlas (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR)) Online maps of Crown maps using both interactive and static digital maps. Static maps are in PDF format.
- Oak Ridges Moraine , Ontario
- Ontario Base Maps
- Ontario Municipal Home Pages (Produced and Maintained by the AMO (Association of Municipalities of Ontario) Resource Centre) provides good coverage of regions, counties and districts
- OntarioRoots (genealogy site including maps and images, tax rolls, census data)
- NEW: Wellbeing Toronto. (City of Toronto)
- City of Toronto Maps and Air Photos (City of Toronto) Find an intersection/address, keep zooming in, then click the aerial view option in layers on the left to view the air photo of the area chosen. 2005 (air photo date).
- Don Valley Historical Mapping Project
- Garrison Creek 1878 Map
- Greater Toronto Area Map
- Historical Maps (City of Toronto Archives)
- Historicity: Toronto Then and Now (Toronto Public Library’s information portal)
- Homocides in the GTA (Toronto Star)
- Mississauga maps (City of Mississauga )
- Toronto CMA Census Subdivisions [1996] (University of Toronto Data, Map and GIS Centre)
- Toronto 1996 Census atlas (University of Toronto Data, Map and Government Information Services Library)
- Toronto (Yahoo!Canada Maps)
- Toronto land use (University of Toronto Map Library; Data Creator: Gerald Romme)
- Toronto Neighbourhoods (City of Toronto, Urban Development Services)
- Toronto Social Atlas (City of Toronto)
- Toronto Ward Profile Map (City of Toronto)
- Toronto Zoning bylaw project (City of Toronto)
- 1895 USA atlas
- Atlas of Minnesota
- Color landform atlas of the United States
- The Electronic Map Library (Dept. of Geography, California State University, Northridge
- Great Lakes Environmental atlas (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
- National atlas of the United States
- Railroad maps 1828-1900
- TopoZone (interactive topo map of the entire United States)
- States government sources: state maps (Daniel J. Evans Library, Government Documents/Maps, Evergreen State College)
- Cartographic Links for Botanists – Plant distribution maps
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (University of Texas at Austin) – city maps)
- Green Map System (Green maps of various cities, towns and regions. Includes Canadian cities)
- John R. Borchert Map Library (University of Minnesota) – Maps in the News
- MapQuest
- TerraServer
- Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps , compiled by Claire Englander and Philip Hoehn (Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections)
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (University of Texas at Austin) – CIA and other maps
- Poverty Mapping (Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN))
- STAT-Planet Interactive statistic maps at the world scale.
- Subway Maps (metroPlanet)
- UN atlas of the oceans (This United Nations atlas is an Internet portal providing information relevant to the sustainable development of the oceans)
- United Nations (maps and geographic information resources)
- World Bank (open data and interactive map site produced by the World Bank)
