Cartographic and Spatial Data on the Internet
There are now thousands of World Wide Web sites where you can obtain cartographic and spatial information. The following is a very partial list.
Name Servers (Gazetteers)
Distance Server Some Sites with Chicago Maps or Spatial Data- Chicago census maps, 1990
- Chicago census maps, 2000
- Chicago in the 1890s
- Social scientists map Chicago
- Chicago Architecture Imagebase (University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Chicago Democracy Project (political maps and data for wards, legislative districts, and zipcodes)
- Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s: the View from the Chicago School
- Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)
- Chicago historical ward and street files (University of Chicago Center for Population Economics; includes historical ward and street files for Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Saint Louis)
- Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning land use inventory data set
- Chicago Zoning Ordinance
- City of Chicago GIS data (boundary shapefiles from the city)
- Dept. of Maps and Plats on-line kiosk (air photos, plat maps, structure base maps)
- EveryBlock Chicago (local data, for example for crime)
- Digital orthophoto quadrangles (DOQs) for Illinois
- Geospatial data, Illinois and Chicago (from University of Illinois, Chicago; includes 1978 neighborhood map file)
- Historical maps of Illinois and the Old Northwest (University of Illinois; includes older Illinois topos)
- Illinois county coal maps
- Illinois land cover atlas
- Illinois air photos (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; includes air photos of Cook and Will Counties in 1930s)
- Illinois Natural Resources Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
- National Historical Geographical Information System (historical tract boundaries and tract data for Chicago and rest of U.S.; University of Minnesota)
- Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission map gallery
- Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission Census 2000 data file for Chicago community areas
- Sanborn maps (digital version of classic fire insurance maps of Chicago and some other U.S. cities, 1867-1970; see note; see also Chicago Sanborn map index; Sanborn fire insurance web pages from Library of Congress; as well as older interface for Illinois Sanborns)
- Some Chicago GIS data (University of Chicago Map Collection)
- University of Chicago campus map
- Afghanistan Information Management Services (AIMS) (GIS files for Afghanistan)
- Africa: 16th-20th century maps (Northwestern University)
- Alabama maps
- American shores: maps of the Middle Atlantic region to 1850 (New York Public Library)
- Arizona Electronic Atlas
- Atlas of Canada
- Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (Newberry Library)
- Australian GIS data and maps (Geoscience Australia) (alternative site)
- Boston Digital Atlas
- California Geographic Survey
- Census 2000 ESRI shapefiles
- China Data Center (University of Michigan)
- China historical GIS (Harvard Yenching Institute; growing body of historical GIS data and scans of paper maps; some Japanese material too)
- China map data (CITAS)
- Chizu (old Chinese maps from the Document and Information Center for Chinese Studies, University of Kyoto) [requires DjVu plug-in]
- Civil War maps (Library of Congress)
- Connecticut Map and Geographic Information Center
- Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) (GIS data for Mexico, China, and elsewhere)
- CropScape (land use/crop data for United States; can export GIS data)
- David Rumsey collection (large collection of early maps)
- Digital Chart of the World (data files)
- Digital Chart of the World (information)
- Earth Observing System Data Gateway (U.S. government imagery)
- Finland historical maps
- GeoGratis (Canadian geospatial data)
- Geospatial Engine (simple maps and some satellite imagery of the whole world)
- Global Administrative Areas (GADM) (GIS files with administrative boundaries for much of the world)
- Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) (remote-sensing data)
- Great Lakes Information network
- Historic cities (Dept. of Geography, University of Jerusalem, and Jewish National and University Library; many early urban views)
- The Historic Towns Atlas program, and holdings in Regenstein Library, University of Chicago (bibliography compiled by Michael P. Conzen and Diana Rehfeldt)
- Historical GIS Clearinghouse (Association of American Geographers)
- Images of early maps on the Web (bibliography)
- l'Institut géographique national "Geoportal" (French topographic maps)
- IPUMS-International Project (foreign GIS census boundary files)
- Kentucky atlas and gazetteer
- Library of Congress panoramic maps
- Map history / History of cartography
- Mapping the Strait : exploring Detroit through maps and diagrams (map blog focusing on Detroit by Robert Linn)
- Mathematical data for bibliographic descriptions of cartographic materials and spatial data (Jan Smits, Koninklijke Bibliotheek)
- Michigan Geographic Data Library
- Milwaukee map (City of Milwaukee)
- Milwaukee neighborhoods, photos and maps, 1885-1992 (American Geographical Society)
- National Atlas of the United States
- National Park maps
- New York City Digital Atlas
- New York City social maps
- New York area GIS links (Regional Plan Association)
- New York State historic maps
- Ordnance Survey open data
- Pennsylvania interactive atlas
- Pittsburgh historic map collection
- Places OnLine (Association of American Geographers)
- Russian Federation digital data
- Ryhiner Map Collection (early maps)
- San Diego State University list of map sites (includes sites for San Diego-Tijuana urban area)
- Social Explorer (census-based maps, somewhat customizable, of United States, 1940-2000, from Queens College, CUNY)
- Stanford University index of Web sites for digital data (includes good index of state sites)
- SUNY Buffalo geography site (good links to other sites)
- Terra Server (Microsoft project to establish enormous world map and image atlas; includes numerous U.S.G.S. topos and orthophotomaps)
- Tiger maps: ESRI shapefiles
- UNESCO Atlas of the world's languages in danger
- U.S. Census Bureau American FactFinder (data for Census 2010 and 2000, including bounadry files)
- U.S.G.S. home page
- U.S.G.S. National Geologic Map Database
- U.S.G.S Seamless Data Distribution System (for U.S.G.S. GIS data)
- University of Texas (CIA and other depository maps)
- University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
- UrbanRail.net (urban rail maps; descendent of Metro Planet)
- Washington, D.C., Digital Atlas
- Washington State early maps
- Wisconsin Land Information Clearinghouse (WISCLINC)