The only
comprehensive listing of early map image sites. The
monthly additions are indicated thus, e.g. {March
2002} at the end of the
entry. Since the symbols { } are not used elsewhere, you can search on
those elements [enter Ctrl+F]; e.g. 2002} will find entries added
at any time in that year)
Please notify any corrections or additions to the editor, Tony
Campbell:
Make sure to consult its copyright statement
before using any of the images you find
Air route maps. 'airchive.com: the
Museum of Commercial Aviation' (select 'Timetables and route maps' for "the history
of over 30 airlines told through their schedules and maps", leading to high res.
images; mostly relating to the USA - Chris Sloan) {December, 2003}
+ Ancient World. Agrimensores (four small images from the 2001 exhibition 'Des
agrimensores romains aux arpenteurs du XVIe siècle', with accompanying French text - Royal
Library, Brussels) {August, 2002}
Ancient World. 'Terra
Antiqua' (see
Pinacotheca (Images) for high res. details of the Tabula Peutingeriana, Notitia
Dignitatum, Orange cadasters, Madaba Map, topographical images on coins, etc.; and 'Cartes du monde
connu' for low res. scans of classical and medieval world maps - Delphine Dumas-Acolat) {September, 2006}
+ Cartographic nationalism. 'Maps and Nations Exhibit, 1998' (13 maps, enlargeable
to medium res., briefly described [by different participants in the Seminar], from Mapline 86/87 (1999) - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library,
Chicago) {September, 2005}
+ Cartographic nationalism.
'Maps and Nations Exhibit, 1999' (11 maps, enlargeable to medium res., briefly described [by different participants in the
Seminar], from Mapline 91 (Summer/Fall 2000) - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library,
Chicago) {January 2008}
Celestial. [a gateway site] (in
Russian; described by R.H. van Gent as a 'collection of historical star maps compiled from various
websources' with 'links to interesting star maps') {June, 2009}
Celestial
(low res. samples from seven atlases - Davide Neri)
Celestial (a
selection of low res. images from the Philadelphia Print Shop)
Celestial.
'400 Years of the telescope' ('almost 100 celestial maps and prints from the 17th through the 20th
centuries', enlargeable to very high res. - Digitized Maps, University of Utrecht) {October, 2009}
Celestial.
‘Astronomy of the North American Indians’ (with three images, including a Pawnee star chart
(and a link to a Tulane site with a larger image) - Star Teach) [formerly at <
http://physics.unr.edu/grad/welser/astro/american.html >, now incorporated into a page
entitled 'Archeo-Astronomy Group Project'] {March, 2005; updated December
2006}
Celestial. 'Astronomy - Star Atlases, Charts, and Maps' (high res. images
of entire atlases (including all the text), with a hyperlinked 'Constellation Index', by Bayer, Flamsteed, Goldbach, Hyginus, Johnston, Reissig, Rost, Schiller and Semler -
Linda Hall Library, Kansas City) {November, 2005}
'Celestial Atlases (1822-1850)' (four works, captured in their entirety, and
enlargeable to high res., arranged in chronological order - David Rumsey Collection)
{March, 2010}
Celestial atlases. 'Atlanti celesti e terrestri'
(select 'tutti gli atlanti' for celestial
atlases by Johann Hevelius Uranographia (1690); Johann G. Doppelmayer
Atlas Coelestis (1742); John Flamsteed Atlas Coelestis
(1753); low res. - Astronomical Observatory of Brera)
Celestial.
'The Atlas Coelestis (1742) of Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr' (links to images of the 30 plates
on other sites, mostly from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Astronomical
Observatory of Brera, accompanying bibliographical notes and references by Robert Harry van
Gent) {December, 2002}
Celestial. ‘Atlas Coelestis: Himmelsatlanten aus drei Jahrhunderten’ (see the 24-
page pdf catalogue, illustrated with many medium res. images from Bayer (1603) to
Argelander (1843) - Jena: Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek and Astrophysikalischen
Instituts und Universitäts-Sternwarte (Andreas Seifahrt)) {October, 2004}
Celestial. ‘Atlas Coelestis’
(medium-sized, medium to high res. images of the contents of 53 celestial
atlases (15th-20th centuries), including historical and explanatory notes; also a growing
selection of separate
‘Mappe’ - Felice Stoppa ) {May, 2004; amended October 2007}
Celestial. 'Becvar's
atlases' (high res. examples illustrating an article by Lubor Kresak about the
Czech astronomer Antonin Becvar's Atlas Coeli Skalnate Pleso (1948), etc.)
{December, 2003}
Celestial.
Carte geografiche e celesti (includes low res. charts by Petrucci and
Banet Panadès, M. Ricci's world map (part), a celestial chart by Schall
von Bell and astronomical diagrams - Università di Bologna)
+ Celestial. 'Divine Sky: The
Artistry of Astronomical Maps' (an online exhibition, including images of the full sequence of star
charts from three atlases (1708 edition of Cellarius, the 1729 Flamsteed and Elijah H. Burritt's 'Atlas
Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens' (1850)), and astronomical drawings by Trouvelot,
zoomable to very high res., with footnoted commentary - Jacob Glenn, University of Michigan Shapiro
Science Library, 2009) {June, 2009}
Celestial. ‘Fortin -
Atlas Céleste 1795’ (medium res. images of the 26 plates, accompanied by bibliographical
notes on the atlas by Jean Fortin, first published in 1776 - Henk Bril) {May, 2004}
Celestial.
'Goed gezien' (select 'Objectbeschrijvingen' and then 'Het heelal'
for 15 low res.images - accompanying an exhibition by Dirk de Vries) [for
a further selection click on 'Achtergronden'] {April, 2001}
Celestial. Johann Bayer Uranometria (1603) (high res. images
of the entire atlas (including all the text), with a hyperlinked 'Constellation Index' -
Linda Hall Library, Kansas City) {February, 2004}
Celestial. ‘Stjerneatlasser’ (medium res. images, with brief Danish commentary,
from the atlases of Bayer, Bode, Cellarius, Doppelmayr, Flamsteed, Hevelius and Lubienietzki -
Danmarks Natur- og Lægevidenskabelige Bibliotek) {October, 2004}
+ Celestial. 'Tycho's Star Maps'
(search for 'Tycho Brahe' for 10 low res. images of celestial globes and star charts - Emily
Winterburn, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich) {July, 2002}
Conservation. ‘Hävingult tagasi võidetud kaardid Rahvusraamatukogu kaardikogust’ ([Restoration of maps from the collection of the National Library (of Estonia)]; eight maps and four atlases (the oldest the 1578 [i.e. 1541?] Ptolemy) shown, in medium res., some both before and after treatment, with brief commentary in Estonian) {April, 2005}
Curiosities. 'A
Guide to Unusual Maps on the Web' (links arranged thus: Cartographic
Misconceptions; Alternate Geography; Maps of the Imagination, Stories
and Games; Maps of Life, Love, Marriage, and the Soul; Mapping New
"Geographies" - Bill Thoen)
Curiosities.
'A Map by any other Name' (J.B. Post - Mercator's World, September-October 2001 -
illustrated with 5 low res. images of 'cartifacts') {September,
2001}
Ebstorf Map. 'Digitale Schreibzeuge' (a 1996 article by Martin
Warnke, University of Lüneburg, partly discussing the map and including medium res.
sample extracts, taken from the 1950s hand-coloured facsimile, with associated name
indexes) {February, 2004}
Ebstorf Map. 'Et mundus, hoc est homo' (including medium res. sample
extracts, taken from the 1950s hand-coloured facsimile - Martin Warnke, University of Lüneburg)
{February, 2004}
Ebstorf
Map (enlargeable, but still low res. images of the Ebstorf and
six other medieval world maps and diagrams, with German commentary - Hans
Zimmermann) {August, 2002}
Education. '19th Century Maps by Children' (a good assortment of high res. images of maps drawn or filled in by children, with commentary - David Rumsey)
{February, 2010}
Ephemera - e.g. trade cards, advertisements - see the various
issues of MapForum
Escape maps. 'US Cloth Maps
of World War 2' (enlargeable low res. images [select the map,
right click with the mouse and select 'View Image']: Army Air
Force (36 maps), Naval Air Combat Intelligence-Hydrographic Office (26
maps) - also history, bibliography and useful 'map identification'
details - John Rado) {February, 2001}
Escape maps. 'WWII Escape Maps' (a good
selection of medium res. maps (mostly US and British), arranged by the issuing body, with extensive
explanatory texts){November, 2008}
Geological mapping. 'Assynt's Geology' ('of
international importance for the discovery of how mountain ranges are formed', including a section 'History of geological maps' -
University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment) {July, 2007}
Geological mapping. ‘e-Geo: un mare di
carte!!!’ (3,100 images of Italian geological mapping, also including a few from
France, viewable via plug-in; probably several hundred of them from the 19th century - part of
a project to produce a complete inventory of Italian geothematic cartography - Centro di
Geotecnologie - Università di Siena) {February, 2005}
+ Geological mapping. 'Mapping Mountains'
(click 'Maps' for enlargeable pdf images of large-scale British Geological Survey maps and 'slips' of the north-west
Highlands [these are slow to arrive], from the 1880s, with Interpretative Panels - an exhibition at various Scottish venues in 2007)
{July, 2007}
German Atlases (a good selection
of 19th and 20th century German atlases, of various sorts, offering over 3000
images in medium or high res.; look,
e.g., for Berghaus, Spruner and Stieler under 'Perthes-Gotha' - Martin Hensen) {April, 2006}
Globes
(14, very slow-loading - though probably high res. - full-screen
images of globes (1699-1873) from the Lanman Collection, Yale University
Library)
Globes (details, enlargeable to high res. from some of the National
Maritime Museum’s 400 globes (1537 to present day), with accompanying descriptions)
{October, 2004}
+ Globes. Coronelli. 'Les globes du Roi-Soleil' (an
extensive online exhibition, featuring commentary and detailed illustrations, of the giant globes presented to Louis XIV in 1683
- Bibliothèque national de France) {February, 2007}
Globes. 'Les Globes de
Coronelli' (click on 'en images' for images, including 12 details of
the terrestrial globe and 11 details of the celestial - Bibliothèque
Nationale de France) {July, 2002}
Globes. Der
"Mainzer Globus" (text [with links to other sources] and illustrations of the brass globe
of c. 150-220 A.D. in the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz) {February, 2005}
Globes. Mapparium (text and images of the three-storey glass globe of 1935 -
Mary Baker Eddy Library, Boston) {December, 2003}
Indexes to series mapping, see under 'Graphic indexes' in Web texts: Themes
Indigenous
Peoples. 'Native Web' - Maps (links to identified maps on other sites
relating to tribal issues - Native Web: Resources for Indigenous Cultures
around the World) {December, 2001}
Islamic. ‘The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels
for the Eyes’ (a hitherto unknown Arabic cosmographical treatise, the Kitab Ghara?ib al-funun wa-mulah?
al-?uyun, known as the Book of Curiosities - a copy, probably made in Egypt in the late 12th or 13th
century, of an anonymous work compiled in the first half of the 11th century in Egypt. The manuscript (viewable
in high res.) contains a unique series of maps and diagrams, most of which are unparalleled in any other
medieval work. These include diagrams of star-groups and comets; two world maps, one with a graphic scale (the
earliest surviving example); individual maps of islands and ports in the eastern Mediterranean; the Indian
Ocean, and Caspian Sea, etc., with fully searchable Arabic text and English translation - online publication by
The Bodleian Library (which acquired it in 2002) in collaboration with The Oriental Institute, University of
Oxford). [NB. The site is best viewed with Mozilla Firefox] {March, 2007}
Islamic History Maps (links from Islamic Unit Studies, mostly to historical rather than original maps)
{February, 2009}
Islamic. Portolan atlas. Al-Sharafi al-Sifaqsî (enter, under
'Cote', Arabe 2278, then click on 'Chercher' and then 'Images'; medium res. images of a 16th century [1551?] Arabic atlas drawn in
Tunisia, comprising a chart for finding the direction of Mecca, a world chart and seven sectional charts of the Mediterranean -
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Richelieu, Manuscrits Arabe 2278) {November, 2005; updated February 2008}
Islamic. Portolan
atlas. 'Walters Art Museum Ms. W.658' (selected plates, enlargeable to high res. and downloadable
under a Creative Commons license, from Piri Reis's richly illuminated 'Book on Navigation', composed in 932 AH /
1525 CE, here in a 17th century copy - a sequence mounted by the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, on Flickr)
{September, 2009}
Literature and Maps:
Image and Text' (an interesting, if confusing, site [being rebuilt] with groups of medium
res. images detached from their explanatory text; also follow up the list of links: 'Political
maps...Petruccelli's maps' - Chris Mullen, 'The visual telling of stories: a database dedicated
to the study of the narrative in visual form') {February, 2006}
Medieval. 'A Medieval Atlas' (links pages
from about.com, arranged by Region/Place-name/Century/Topic, and also City & Town maps -
most links are to historical maps)
Medieval.
'Atlantide sotto ghiaccio?' (14 low res. images of medieval world maps, accompanying
a text on Atlantis and the Antarctic - Diego Cuoghi) {December, 2003}
Medieval. 'Cartographic
Images' (a large collection of low res. images (both whole maps and details) for a
wide range of historically important maps (i.e. they tend to be institutional
'treasures', often in manuscript), some accompanied by extensive 'monographs' (i.e.
descriptions) - Jim Siebold)
+ Medieval. 'Ciel et
Terre' (virtual exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France,
1998-99 - high res. images)
Medieval. ’Decameron Web’ (sections ‘Antique and Ancient Maps’ and ‘Regional Maps of the
Middle Ages’ illustrated with low res. maps from the ‘Cartographic Images’ site – Brown
University) {July, 2004}
Medieval.
Ebstorf World Map (enlargeable, but still low res. images of the
Ebstorf and six other medieval world maps and diagrams, with German
commentary - Hans Zimmermann) {August, 2002}
Medieval.
‘Kartor med öster uppåt, OT-kartor och andra‘ (about 50 low to medium res. images of
medieval mappaemundi [taken, with acknowledgement, from the Henry Davis site] with identifying
captions in Swedish) {September, 2004}
Medieval. William of Conches 'De Philosophia Mundi' (a facsimile
[France, second half of 12th century] including enlargeable, very high res. images
of circular world maps (ff. 13r and 15r) and various astronomical diagrams - University
of Pennsylvania Library, Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI))
{October, 2003}
Mixtec. 'El Mapa de
Teozacoalco: An Early Colonial Guide to Cultural Transformations' (an archaeological report, with bibliography,
focussing on the map "drawn about 1580 using conventions of both European map-making and Mixtec codex-painting"
(which is shown in medium res.), preserved in the Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin -
Stephen L. Whittington. 2002/03) {June, 2008}
News.
Federal Newsmaps (212 maps, enlargeable to high res. via Zoomify, 'published by the Special
Service Division, Army Service Forces, War Department of the U.S. and were prepared and distributed by
the Army Orientation Course during the World War II era' - University of North Texas Libraries)
{August, 2008}
Orientation. 'The Occidental Tourist: 500
Years of Orienting Maps' (five medium res. illustrations to one of the 'Popular Cartography Exhibits' from the 2004 Reading
Popular Cartography Seminar at the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {August,
2008}
Ottoman, see 'Islamic' above
Panorama. 'About Panorama-Maps and this Collection' (a commercial site offering
information and low res. images on (mostly recent) panoramas produced in North America
and Europe, with indexes by artist and country - Panorama-Map.com) {December, 2003}
Peutinger Table/Tabula Peutingeriana (partial, medium res. sections of the original
[c. 250 AD, covering parts of Europe, Africa and Asia, surviving copy c. 1200] and the 1598
facsimile by Velser, and high res. sections of the entire 1887-8 facsimile -
E. Harsch, Fachhochschule Augsburg) {March, 2002}
Peutinger Table (in 11 high res. segments,
with an 'Alphabetical Index of Toponyms' - Sorin Olteanu's Thraco-Daco-Moesian Languages Project (TDML) {May, 2007}
Philately. ‘Maps on
stamps’ ('Historical Maps' leads to a large selection of high res. illustrations with
commentary and links). [Also here] {March, 2005}
Philately
(maps on stamps) (Menno-Jan's Stamp Museum: 'Carto-philatelics';
'East Africa's postal history'; 'Maps on stamps of the Netherlands' -
analytical site, with some examples using early maps - Menno-Jan Kraak)
Philately. New CartoPhilatelist (scroll down for ‘Oh what a relief’, a well-illustrated article by
Martin Oakes on the depiction of terrain, from issue 1, April 2003) {February, 2005}
Pictorial maps. 'Harvard Map
Collection digital maps. E.D. Chase pictorial collection' (47 pictorial map images (1929-43), of different parts of the world,
enlargeable to very high res.; 'pictorial maps are a unique genre of cartographic materials and Chase's examples require
intensive study to really appreciate the artistry involved and the amount of detail that are a trademark of each of his maps'
(David Cobb) - Harvard Map Collection) {December, 2006; revised September 2007}
Piracy
(click on 'Pirate Maps' for a selection of medium res.scans - Beej)
Portolan atlases and charts in the Huntington Library
(includes descriptions and enlarged, high res. images of the entire contents of about 35 portolan atlases and maps
, some unsigned (HM 29 [Vallard Atlas], 34, 39, 42, 45 [King-Hamy], 47, 1548, 2098), others signed by or assigned to Agnese (HM 10, 25-27),
Bremond (HM 31), Brouscon (HM 46), Cavallini (HM 38), Fassoi (HM 30 - engraved), Freire (HM 35), Ghisolfi (HM 28), Maggiolo (HM
427), Martines (HM 33), Oliva (HM 40, 2515), Olives (HM 32), Roussin (HM 37), Teixeira (HM 1549), Vaz Dourado (HM 41), Velho (HM
44), Welch (HM 43), and two acknowledged forgeries (HM 217, 218) - they are arranged in their 'HM' order on this page;
alternatively, consult the comparative analytical table, 'Chart of the portolan atlases: geographical areas on maps and portolan atlases'{March, 2004; amended September 2007}
Portolan
charts (four charts and an isolario) (fast-loading, high res.
enlargements, with commentary - Carol Urness, James Ford Bell Library).
See also 'Young
Navigators' (leading to: 'Travel through history'; 'Building blocks
in cartography'; 'Building blocks in geography'; 'The world revealed
through maps')
Portolan charts (from this 'Subject' list select 'CADA/CHAR', then 'carte',
which brings up two portolan charts [Dijon - BM - ms. 0550 and Lyon - BM - ms. 0179] and a map
of Italy; to view you must left-click to create a pop-up which can be enlarged to medium res.
[the last three links are for the Lyon chart] - Enluminures (medieval MSS preserved in French
municipal libraries)) {January, 2006}
Portolan charts. Al-Sharafi al-Sifaqsî (enter, under
'Cote', Arabe 2278, then click on 'Chercher' and then 'Images'; medium res. images of a 16th century [1551?] Arabic atlas drawn in
Tunisia, comprising a chart for finding the direction of Mecca, a world chart and seven sectional charts of the Mediterranean -
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Richelieu, Manuscrits Arabe 2278) {November, 2005; updated February 2008}
Portolan charts. Baldasaro da Maiolo Vesconte (2-sheets covering the
Mediterranean, 1588; enlargeable (in sections) to high res.: 'Carta navicatoria di mano
de Baldasaro da Maiolo Visconte fatta nell'anno MDLXXXVIII'; bound at the end of a world atlas
by Joan Riczo Oliva - Patrimonio Nacional, Real Biblioteca, 'Manuscritos de América';
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes ) {January, 2006}
Portolan charts.
Battista Agnese [portolan atlas of nine charts and a world map, 1544]
(Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division - high res. MrSID images, with
the ability to zoom, enlarge and select details)
Portolan charts.
Battista Agnese (undated [mid 16th century] portolan atlas, with (apparently) 13 charts, one in three parts, as well as other
drawings, making 20 images in all; to go directly to the high res. images click here - New
York Public Library, Spencer Collection (part of the Digital Scriptorium)) {December, 2007}
Portolan charts.
Benincasa. 'The Sea Map of Andrea Benincasa' (six high res. details from the Mediterranean chart of 1508
(Vatican, Borgiano VIII) taken from the 1984 Belser facsimile - Library of the Medieval Institute, University of Notre
Dame) {July, 2008}
Portolan charts. Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon (follow this complicated route:
'ressources - collections numérisées'; 'enluminures'; 'recherche simple'; then type into the 'Tous champs' box: 'portulan' [note spelling];
finally click 'lancer la recherche tableau' - to arrive at 42 scans (whole charts in low res. and details in medium res.) of the
14th-century atlas (MS 175) and the 16th-century atlas (MS 176)) {March, 2008}
Portolan charts. 'Digital Images Online' (a 1559 Agnese atlas and charts by Aguiar, F.
Beccari, Doran, [Maggiolo], J. Oliva, J. Olives, ben Zara, and an unsigned 15th century work;
first select 'See all images', then click on the 'zoom' option on the relevant thumbnail to
enlarge to high res. - Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University) {March, 2009}
Portolan
charts. 'Early vellum sea charts "Portulans"' (a growing selection of charts and atlases (171
separate charts and atlas sheets, at March 2009), viewable in medium res. or, via details, enlargeable to high res. - National Maritime Museum, Greenwich) {January, 2006; amended March 2009}
Portolan charts on Europeana (a
basic search for 'portolan' and 'portulan' found 48 & 28 images respectively - mostly from
the British Library and enlargeable only to medium res.; the site is growing) {February, 2010}
Portolan charts. Francesco Ghisolfo (medium res. images of two 16th-century portolan
atlases: Ricc. 3615 and Ricc. 3616
from the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence - Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica
"F. Datini": Immagini per la storia economica e sociale) {July, 2003}
Portolan charts. Gaspar Viegas (attributed) (medium res. images from the portolan
atlas of c. 1537: from the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence - Istituto Internazionale di
Storia Economica "F. Datini": Immagini per la storia economica e sociale) {July,
2003}
Portolan charts. 'Greek
Cartography: the Documents' (select 'portolan' for 37 Greek portolan works, from a database of manuscript
and printed maps, atlases and isolarii, 15th century to 1820, illustrated with thumbnails - 'PANDEKTIS: a
Digital Thesaurus of Primary Sources for Greek History and Culture', developed by the National Hellenic
Research Foundation) {December, 2009}
Portolan
charts. Jean Guérard (a site about the 17th-century Dieppe cartographer, with three
sections: Biographie, Hydrographie Traité de 1630, and Portulans; including brief notes and
images [details and whole maps, enlargeable but low res.] - Olivier Poullet) {December,
2004}
Portolan charts. Joan Riczo Oliva (17-chart world atlas, c.1580-8, enlargeable (in
sections) to high res. - Patrimonio Nacional, Real Biblioteca, 'Manuscritos de América';
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes ) {January, 2006}
Portolan charts.
Ottoman. 'Walters Art Museum Ms. W.658' (selected plates, enlargeable to high res. and downloadable
under a Creative Commons license, from Piri Reis's richly illuminated 'Book on Navigation', composed in 932 AH /
1525 CE, here in a 17th century copy - a sequence mounted by the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, on Flickr)
{September, 2009}
Portolan charts. Portuguese. 'TT
Online' (109 medium res. scans of MS portolan and other charts from the 16th century onwards, covering
various parts of the world associated with Portuguese history - Instituto dos Arquivos Nacionais Torre do
Tombo) {April, 2009}
+ Portolan charts.
Les Portulans (Carte Pisane, Vesconte, Dulcert, Viladestes, G. de Maggiolo: small details -
Bibliothéque Nationale de France)
Portolan charts.
'Siglos XIV y XV' (a collection of charts, from Carignano to the end of the 15th century, in chronological
order, from various acknowledged sources, enlargeable but not legible; see also the equivalent page for the
period up to 1677:
'Siglos XVI y XVII' - Portulanos blog) {July, 2009}
Portolan charts. Vesconte (scans, enlargeable to medium res., of the 4-chart Perrino
Vesconte atlas of 1321 in the Zentralbibliothek Zurich - NEBIS) {December, 2008}
Portolan see also under Sea charts below
Relief. New CartoPhilatelist (scroll down for ‘Oh what a relief’, a well-illustrated
article by Martin Oakes on the depiction of terrain, from issue 1, April 2003) {February,
2005}
'Road maps'
(over 1000 medium res. images of road map covers, mostly from oil companies, arranged
geographically for all parts of the world and then by company, some captioned - Jon Roma)
{December, 2003}
Road
maps. 'Caught Mapping' (a 9-minute black and white documentary about the updating
process for printed road maps in the USA c. 1940. It is available as a download in various
formats or streamed over the Internet - link available via the Cartography blog) {July,
2006}
Road maps - also look in the appropriate
geographical page of this 'Web Images' section, and see under Map Collecting
'School Atlases (1699-1885)' (about 40 works, captured in their entirety, and
enlargeable to high res., arranged in chronological order - David Rumsey Collection)
{March, 2010}
+ Sea. ’La Mer, terreur et
fascination’ (a Bibliothèque nationale de France site for an exhibition co-organised with
the Ville de Brest and the Pôle associé Océanographie of Brest, 2005; as always with the BnF
there is interesting cartographic material (from the 13th century onwards) but it is hard to
find - see for example La mer dans les cartes, with 16 maps and charts (enlargeable to medium
res.), or Concours
cartes marines) {April, 2005}
Sea
charts. 'Cartografia nautica' (an extensive introduction to the history of cartography in
Italian, spread over 12 topic pages [see list in right margin] illustrated with small scans;
alternatively, you can select (via 'Ricerca dei termini') from a drop-down list of mapmaker
names and titles; see also Collezionismo:
cartografia); sea charts are featured and illustrated in other sections as well [see list
in left margin]) {August, 2005}
Sea charts see also under Portolan charts above
Silk maps see Escape maps above
'Soil map of
Belgium' (first click 'Collections', then click on the relevant thumbnail to bring up a
browsing list of the map published at 1:20,000 by the Comité voor het opnemen van de Bodemkaart
en de Vegetatiekaart van België, Brussels, 1950-1971; high res. images viewable
with/without MrSID plugin - from the collections of the former Rijks Geologische Dienst in
Haarlem and the former Bodemkundig Instituut van de Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht) {March, 2006}
Soviet maps. 'Let's go!' ('more
than 18,000 military topographic maps', at scales ranging from 1:50,000 to 1:1 million
- related to the commercial site Mapstor,
which invites you to 'buy or free download 34,727 georeferenced digital maps covering
the world and popular travel regions', issued by the military departments of Russia and the
East European countries in the second half of the 20th century) {July, 2008; amended February 2010}
Statistical maps ('Historische hoogtepunten van grafische verwerking':
Statistische kaarten; also links to pages on Lalanne, Minard, etc. - Wim Neeleman and
Heleen Verhage, Utrecht University)
Thematic maps.
'100 Thematic maps [of the Netherlands]' (first click 'Collections', then click on the
relevant thumbnail to bring up a browsing list; high res. images viewable with/without
MrSID plugin; mostly from Utrecht University Library) {March, 2006}
Thematic maps. 'Homicide in Chicago. Hull House Maps and
Papers (1895)' (select 'View Maps' for high res. distribution maps for 'nationality' and 'wages', based on information gathered
by Florence Kelley for the United States Department of Labour - Northwestern University School of Law) {March, 2008}
+ Thematic
maps. 'Strijd om de Ruimte in Kaart' (Mapping the struggle for space -
a range of low res., thematic maps, in Dutch - exhibition organised by
Guus Borger and Jan Werner, 2000)
Tithe maps - search for 'tithe' on the British Isles
page
Towns see under Urban
'The Upsidedown Map
Page: It needn't be a Eurocentric world' (illustrating 5 modern maps and the 1550
Desceliers chart (enlargeable to medium res.), with comments and links relating to maps
not oriented to north and with Europe in the middle - Francis Irving) {December,
2003}
Urban. 'Beelddatabank
stedenatlassen' (see 'Overzicht stedenatlassen' for a list of the full scans (enlargeable to very high res.),
including text, of 1,700 town plans and views from the atlases by Braun & Hogenberg, Blaeu, Janssonius, de Wit and others; the world coverage is
accessible via a town index - Amsterdam University Library) {July, 2008}
Urban. Harvard. 'Scanned Historic City Maps added to Harvard
Geospatial Library' ('a collection of 6,799 worldwide and regional geographic data layers,
scanned historic maps and associated descriptive information that can be searched mapped and
downloaded for use for use with your GIS software'; a range of cities around the world is included
- GIS & Science blog, 30 November 2009). [See also here]
{December, 2009}
Urban. 'Historic
Cities' (enlargeable, very high res. images of over 500 early city
plans (mostly from Braun & Hogenberg, but with a large Jerusalem section) - Historic Cities Center of the Department of
Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and
University Library ). See also under Web
Projects{October, 2001; updated April 2004}
Urban. 'Hypercities' (currently in Beta 2,
this provides georectified versions of maps from the 18th century onwards for selected cities, e.g. Berlin (the
major focus), London, Los Angeles, New York, Rome, and others, overlaid on Google maps etc.; use Firefox or
Safari) {July, 2009}
Urban. 'An Ideal City?: the 1912
Competition to Design Canberra' (while focussing on Canberra, this takes a broad look, in
text and 'Zoomify' images, at precursors around the world - National Archives of Australia,
National Capital Authority, and National Library of Australia) {November, 2006}
Urban. 'Beelddatabank stedenatlassen' (Dutch town books by Blaeu, Alberts, Janssonius, de Wit and Allard, with
combined place-name indexes; images and text, about 1,700 plans, very high res. -
Amsterdam University Library) {March, 2008;amended January 2009}
+ Vatican
Exhibit (Library of Congress) (a wide-ranging exhibition, including,
e.g., plans of Rome, Ptolemy, Buondelmonti, Jesuits in China - but slow
to load)
Wall-maps. 'Wandkarten' (a hypertext note by Jan Werner about the maps in Amsterdam
University Library, leading to high res. Zoomify images) {February, 2010}
'Weather and Climate' (US daily weather maps
(1871-2002) in high res. DejaVu format; and meteorological and climatological data from the 19th century onwards, both US and
foreign - National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA)) {March, 2008}
World War I. ‘The Gallipoli map collection’ (a small selection
from the collection of over 300 maps, arranged according to Landing (April 1915), Cemetery, Turkish and Trench categories,
enlargeable to high res. - Australian War Memorial) {April, 2007}
World War II. 'Belgium - Second
World War military mapping - geo-referenced mosaics' (the 'maps were created by the Geographical Section
of the General Staff (GSGS)' ... and the 'georeferenced and mosaiced layers were created as part of a
project on military aerial imagery held by The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives, based at RCAHMS' - National
Library of Scotland) {June, 2009}
World War II. Federal Newsmaps (212
maps, enlargeable to high res. via Zoomify, 'published by the Special Service Division, Army Service Forces, War Department of
the U.S. and were prepared and distributed by the Army Orientation Course during the World War II era' - University of North Texas
Libraries) {August, 2008}
'World War II
Military Situation Maps 1944-1945' (416 printed maps, viewable in high res. MrSID
format, and 115 reports, giving daily details on the military campaigns in Western Europe from
D-Day to July 1945; including a Flash 'interactive essay' The Battle of
the Bulge - Library of Congress 'American Memory') {January, 2006}