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1. Columbia Gazetteer of North America
A comprehensive encyclopedia of geographical places and features covering incorporated places and counties in the United States, several thousand unincorporated places, special sites and physical features, includes Canada Mexico and the Carribean.[Full Description]
http://www.bartleby.com/69/
2. Columbia Gazetteer of the World [UCSD Only]
A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world, including the United States and North America.[Full Description]
http://www.columbiagazetteer.org/
3. Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
The TGN is a structured vocabulary containing more than one million names and other information about places. The TGN includes all continents and nations of the modern political world, as well as historical places. It includes physical features and admini[Full Description]
URL too long to display
4. Global Gazetteer
Directory cities and towns, sorted by country and/or initial character, with selectable/zoomable maps. Tables: Place; Latitude/Longitude (Degrees/Metric); Altitude (meters/feet); nearest airport; current weather. Google links. [Full Description]
http://www.fallingrain.com/world/
5. Google Maps
Drag-and-drop online mapping from Google. Provides options to search for locations, businesses, and driving directions, and a general search box to key in your destination. Results may be printed or e-mailed.[Full Description]
http://maps.google.com/
6. Home Town Locator: US Cities Gazetteer
Data for 42,500 cities,towns & ZIP Codes, including census, demographic and income data, parks, schools, libraries, hospitals, airports, hotels, environmental conditions, local newspapers, media outlets, employment, maps, coordinates and aerial photos.[Full Description]
http://www.hometownlocator.com/
7. Infoplease Atlas
Maps of every country in the world, and of individual states in the United States. Also links to detailed country information.[Full Description]
http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/
8. Mapquest
Mapquest offers consumers the ability to find over three million locations worldwide, obtain driving directions, and create and save personalized maps. Mapquest also offers business, leisure and local information, plus live traffic updates.[Full Description]
http://www.mapquest.com
9. Multimap.com.
Interactive, zoomable maps from world to city to street level. Includes place name lookup.[Full Description]
http://uk8.multimap.com/map/places.cgi
10. National Geographic Map Machine
Interactive world map with thematic overlays. Maps can be zoomed, downloaded, e-mailed or printed.[Full Description]
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
National Geographic atlas of the world updates
11. Perry-Castaneda Library (PCL) Map Collection
Large collection of online world, region, country, city and historical maps. Arranged by continent. "Current Interest" section. Copyright free. Links.[Full Description]
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html
12. Refdesk.com: My Facts Page: Atlas and Maps
Links to 66 internet centers of maps, atlases, and related geographic information resources.[Full Description]
http://www.refdesk.com/factmaps.html
13. TopoZone
Web's first interactive topographic map of the entire United States[Full Description]
http://www.topozone.com/
Tips on Finding Things
14. U.S. Gazetteer:
This gazetteer is used to identify places to view with the Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the 1990 Census Lookup server. Search by place, county, ZIP, MCD. Downloadable files. Links.[Full Description]
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
15. World Gazetteer
Current population of countries, their administrative divisions, cities and towns as well as images of the current national flags. Interactive sorting. Links.[Full Description]
http://www.gazetteer.de/
Map: Availability of Statistical Information on the Web
16. Yahoo Maps
Create your own maps and driving directions from one location to another.[Full Description]
http://maps.yahoo.com/

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