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See the Map & Atlas Guide for online resources by topic.
- The Atlas of Canada - Find places, digital maps, topographic maps, facts, geographical information and learning resources about Canada.
- Canadian Federal Electoral Districts
- Canadian First Nations maps
- Canadian Hydrographic Service
- Canadian Soil Information System (CanSIS) includes links to the National Soil DataBase
- CanMatrix – Digital Topographic Maps of Canada. Georeferenced or Print-Ready
- Elections Canada
- Environment Canada
- Canadian Meteorological Centre, Climate and Water Information
- The Great Lakes - An Environmental Atlas and Resources Book
- 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 Database for Geoscience) is a digital image library of Geological Survey of Canada maps
- National Air Photo Library (NAPL)
- Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
- NRCan Earth Sciences - includes Sciences, Geomatics, Geography, and other resources
- Geodetic Reference Systems
- GeoGratis source for free maps and geospatial data of Canada
- Geological Survey of Canada
- Toporama (free digital topographic raster data)
- Parks Canada
- 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
- Conservation Authorities in Ontario: maps
- 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.
- Land Information Ontario (LIO)
- Ontario Base Maps
- Geology Ontario
- Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
- Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
- Upper Canada Genealogy (genealogy site including maps and images, tax rolls, census data)
- Geographic Network Live Map Service (online “interactive” maps of Canada, Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick)
- Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador: Geological maps of Newfoundland
- Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resouces: Minerals and Energy Branch maps
- NEW: Historical Maps of Toronto (Compilation of historical maps from Toronto Public Library and City of Toronto Archives)
- NEW: Toronto Neighbourhoods Map (Toronto Public Library’s information portal)
- 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)
- 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 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
- Census Bureau State & County QuickFacts (includes Thematic Maps)
- CIA World Factbook Reference Maps
- Color landform atlas of the United States
- Great Lakes Environmental atlas (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
- NASA
- National atlas of the United States
- National Imagery and Mapping Agency
- National Ocean Service
- National Wetlands Inventory
- Panoramic maps of cities in the United States and Canada (from collections in the Library of Congress)
- 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)
- United States Geological Survey
- Cartographic Links for Botanists – Plant distribution maps
- Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps , compiled by Claire Englander and Philip Hoehn (Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections)
- 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
- Green Map System (Green maps of various cities, towns and regions. Includes Canadian cities)
- NASA World Wind (Note: A downloadable 3-D tool that lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth)
- Old Maps Online
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (University of Texas at Austin)
- 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)