Mapping Services and Maps
Having guests over for dinner? Tired of drawing maps and writing detailed instructions on how to find your home? Need a map and directions to drive to a given location? The solution is a mouse click and a few key strokes away. 
Enter the street address and town in one of the map creation programs below and obtain a street map with the location marked on it. You can make maps of different resolutions (zoom factors) and customize the maps - change the map title, change and label the location icon, select the map style, and add comments. You can add additional locations to the map - municipal buildings, businesses, hospitals, etc.. Click on an icon and a description pops up along with a telephone number! Detailed driving directions to and from the location are also provided. Planning a road trip? You can obtain detailed driving directions and maps, hotels listings along the way, and destination guides. Thousands of fixed format maps - typographical, political, economic, historical, and nautical charts are also available on the Web.
Google Maps
maps.google.com/maps
Provides directions and interactive maps of the United States. Can also search by keyword such as type of business.
Google Earth
earth.google.com
Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
Mapquest
www.mapquest.com
Also provides maps of foreign cities and directions. Need a street map of Paris? This is the place to get it.
Mapblast
www.mapblast.com
Basically the same features as Mapquest.
DeLorme
www.delorme.com
A commercial site which provides programs for purchase - giving you automatic trail and road routing, elevation profiles, shaded relief maps; nationwide street-level and highway maps of the entire US on a single CD-ROM; high-performance GPS (Global Positioning System) hardware and mapping software.
Maptech
www.maptech.com
A commercial site that provides programs and CD-ROMs for purchase - nautical charts, topographical maps, aeronautical charts, USGS topographical maps, trail and national park maps and more.
Topozone
www.topozone.com
Free topographic maps. Customized maps and map making services available for a fee.
The CIA's World Factbook
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook
World reference maps and maps and summary information for every country in the world.
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
www.usgs.gov
Special maps - earthquake maps by state and region; flood tracking maps; volcanic eruptions.
USGS Mapping Service
mapping.usgs.gov
National mapping service.
Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection
www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
The online map collection of the University of Texas.
Stadtplandienst
www.stadtplandienst.de
Marvelous high resolution city maps of Germany.
Thomas Bros. Maps
www.thomas.com
"Highly accurate, content rich, easy to use, and visually appealing, Thomas Guides are available as handy, spiral-bound map books for your car or office."
Maps of York
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