Map sites

SF Bay Area

• Clickable Map of Bay Area Regional Database

Maps

• Distance Calculator
• International Map Trade Association: collection of links to sources of maps
• US Geological Survey Maps-on-Demand ordering
• National Geographic Maps: digital topographic maps
• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
• Microsoft's TerraServer
  >Alt URL
• DeLorme | Maps and Mapping Software
• National Geophysical Data Center of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the US Department of Commerce
  • Marine Geology & Geophysics
    • Products
    • Posters, Slide Sets, Images
  • Nighttime Lights of the World
    Explanations
    Hardcopy available from many outlets, or from Hansen Planetarium Publications, Salt Lake City, UT, (800) 321-2369
    JPEG (2400 x 1200 pixels = big) Another source or local cache
  • Global Wildfire Images
• Digital Conservation Altas, Resources Agency, State of California
• Digital Earth: TerraVision: About
• myTopo.com Vendor of large-format (24" X 36"), fully customized, topographic maps
• Japanese Historical Maps from the East Asian Library, UC Berkeley
• Operational Significant Event Imagery from NOAA Satellite and Information Services (NOAA = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) - great images of current storms, volcanoes, ...
• Google Maps Mania : Unofficial Blog

Satellite Imagery

• EarthBrowser
• EarthRISE: Photos taken by astronauts out of the windows of the Space Shuttle
• Space Imaging: see image of the day
• Digital Globe
  formerly EarthWatch Inc.: High-resolution satellite imagery from EarlyBird and QuickBird, plus lots of GIS data
• Earth as Art (stunning satellite images) from US Geologic Survey
  Alternate site: , same pictures, different organization. 3921 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto
• OrbImage: gallery of images from various satellites
• Sovinformsputnik (English language site): Imagery from Soviet/Russian satellites
• Earth Resources Observation System (EROS) Data Center of USGS
  • Earth Sciences data on the Global Land Information System (GLIS)
    EarthExplorer: Advanced Webglis interface: does not support all browser (as of 8/2002, explicitly excludes Macintosh)
  • Corona Satellite Photography (also includes Argon and Lanyard satellites). From USGS: declassified US intelligence satellite product. Distribution by EROS (USGS) and possibly others.
  • LandSat 7 (NASA) - now available through USGS GLIS
• www.spin-2.com: defunct site. Now a casino. Used to be location for the KVR-1000 panchromatic camera images from the Soviet Cosmos satellites (1.5-3 m resolution)
• Microsoft TerraServer Image Page
  • Initialized for Barron Park neigbhorhood
• Terraserver.com (not the Microsoft Terraserver site) As of 8/2002, this site is hostile to browsers other than IE 5.0 and better.
• Other good indexes
  • Satellite-Related World Wide Web Sites from Dundee University (U.K.)
  • Earth Observing Resources from Society for International Space Cooperation

Google Maps: Tools and issues

Tools

• batchgeo.com: Create map from Tab-delimited file (such as a spreadsheet)
• Google Map Saver ! GUI.brush Blog

Problem: The normal legends in the left-hand panel are not printed as part of the map

• Legend and print out the google map
• How do I print the legend or write on the map?

Mapping/GIS Systems

• Microsoft Streets & Trips
• Microsoft MapPoint
• Street Atlas USA
• Rand McNally StreetFinder
• Rand McNally TripMaker
• Rand McNally Road Atlas
• Street Atlas Powered by Mapquest
• Skymap
• National Geographic Trip Planner
• XMap Business
• Street Wizard
• National Geographic Maps: The complete collection
• Yellow Pages and Free Streets USA (by Info USA)
• TopoUSA (expensive)
• Earthmate (expensive)
• BusinessMap Pro