UCB Libraries

• Latitude/longitude to Decimal Degrees converter
• GeoCommunicator's Township Decoder
  The Township Geocoder, a joint effort between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), allows for the conversion of Latitude and Longitude (Lat/Long) values into Township, Range and Section values. Likewise, Township, Range, Section, and quarter section values can be converted into polygon centroids in Lat/Long format.
• megaConverter
  megaConverter.com is an ever-growing set of weights, measures and units conversion/calculation modules. It includes ancient and modern units of distance, angles, area, density, power, pressure, speed, and many more.
• Convert Units
  Conversions for numerous different units, including ancient lengths.

• 50 States and Capitals
  Facts about the 50 United States.
• GIS Dictionary
  A dictionary of Geographic Information Systems terms, produced by the Association for Geographic Information.
• Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in GIS, Cartography and Remote Sensing
• ESRI's GIS Dictionary
• Encyclopedia of Earth
  A "free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public."
• USGS Fact Sheets by State
• Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  Information about time and time zones.
• The Columbus Navigation Homepage
  In-depth information about Columbus' voyages, his method of navigation and the debate about where he first landed in the New World.

• Blank outline maps For the 50 states, the US, countries worldwide, etc.
  More blank outline maps, including some historical ones, can be found at d-maps.com
• Colorado Geographic Alliance
  

  Sponsored by the National Geographic Education Foundation. Founded in 1989 at CU Boulder, COGA offers workshops, resources, and course material for educators.

• GeoCommunity
  This web site meets all your geographic needs. It includes a GIS data depot, a geo-specific web search engine, "fun stuff" for geo-professionals, spatial related news, free software, and a geoforum!
• Guide to Unusual Maps on the Web
  Includes maps of cartographic misconceptions, maps of imagination, stories and games, maps of life, love, and marriage, and much more!
• Nice Geography Sites (International)
  General geography links, GIS and remote sensing data, geography and GIS newsgroups are all available on this one web site.
• The Virtual Geography Department
  The Virtual Geography Department (VGD) incorporates a wide range of instructional materials by a number of contributors from around the world. The goal of the Virtual Geography Department Project is to offer high quality curriculum materials that can be used across the Internet by geography students and faculty at any university in the world and to promote collaborative research. Includes a huge list of Web resources.
• Wolfram Geography demonstrations
  From the "Demonstrations Project."

Mapping and Map Skills:

• Basic Map & GPS Skills
  32-page .pdf booklet from National Geographic about reading and navigating with topographic maps. Uses Trails Illustrated maps as examples. Caution: large file, may be slow to load.
• Brief Guide to Reading Maps
  From Statistics Canada's Census Geography site.
• Cartographic Communication
  Information on the value of maps, elements of a map, cartography, etc. Kenneth E. Foote and Shannon Crum, The Geographer's Craft Project, Department of Geography, The University of Colorado at Boulder.
• ColorBrewer
  Interactive tool for designing color schemes for maps, by Cynthia Brewer.
• Flexify
  For turning flat maps into globes. This plug-in works with several standard graphics programs and can create a range of customised globe gores (the canoe-shaped wedges of map, which can be cut and fixed to a sphere) from a pixel-based digital image/scan of your flat drawing.
• Geospatial careers
  "This site is for students and others interested in learning about careers in geospatial technologies."
• G.Projector
  Global Map Projector from NASA. "G.Projector is a Java application which allows you to explore a large collection of global map projections and project an input GIF, JPG or PNG equirectangular map image... requires that your computer have a Java 1.4 virtual machine , or better, installed." (requires installation)
• History of Cartography Tutorial
  From the Universität Passau. In English.
• Latitude and Longitude
  From the U.S. National Atlas.
• Making Globes of the Planets
  Information and links for turning flat maps into globes.
• Making Sense of Maps
  Overview of the history of maps and how historians use them, the elements of a map, tips on questions to ask when analyzing maps, an annotated bibliography, and a guide to finding and using maps online.
• MapAnalyst
  "The map historian's tool for the analysis of old maps." A software package that computes "distortion grids and other types of visualizations that illustrate the geometrical accuracy and distortion of old maps".
• Map History
  Site about the history of cartography, historic maps, map collecting.
• Map Tile Cutter
  Map overlay generator for Google Maps and Google Earth.
• Mathematics of Cartography
  Maps, Mapmaking, math in maps, and more.
• Making Maps Easier to Read
  This site summarizes a research project that discovered some of the factors that make maps easy to read and to use.
• Map Projections
  317 PDF files of educational-quality map projection graphics.
• Map Projections--viewable with an interactive Java applet.
• Map Projections-Geography Tutor
  You Tube video explaining some common map projections.
• Map Projections -- Unfolding the Earth
  A video from youtube showing myriahedral projections.
• Map Scales
  A guide to map scales from the USGS.
  Quick Guide to Map Scales from the Southern Methodist University Map Library
• Topographic Maps
  Basic information on topographic maps from About.com.
• USGS Topographic Map Symbols
  A guide to the current USGS topographic map symbols and more information about topographic maps.
• Toposite
  Quizzes on topography of provinces, states, countries, and continents of the world (mostly Europe).
• Wikipedia entry on maps
  (Wikipedia is a multi-lingual Web-based free-content encyclopedia. It is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing articles to be changed by anyone with an internet connection. Wikipedia's status as a reference work has been controversial. Its open nature allows vandalism, inaccuracy, and opinion.)
  Includes some basic definitions, history, and links.

• Worldtime
  Information on current times worldwide, sunrise, sunset, and holidays.
• World Gazetteer
  Provides a comprehensive set of population data and related statistics. "The main part of the World Gazetteer consists of current and some historical population data for all countries and territories, their administrative divisions, cities and towns. "Historical" in this context means the last or last two censuses or estimates after the last census. There are no older data."
  
• How far is it?
  Calculates the distance between any two places on Earth. Can be searched by inputting city names or latitude/longitude coordinates.
• Sun or Moon Altitude/Azimuth Table
  A U.S. Naval observatory site that calculates the altitude and azimuth of the Sun or Moon during a specific day, at a specific time interval.
• U.S. Postal Service ZIP+4 Code Lookup
  Provides the four-digit zip code extension for any U.S. street address.
• Batch Geocode -- Map Multiple Locations, Find Address Coordinates
  "Take any kind of street address list, and geocode the addresses to get latitude and longitude coordinates... The data can then be mapped in your browser, downloaded into Google Earth , saved to a web page, or transferred back into your spreadsheet. You can also use this tool to calculate distances to multiple addresses from a single point, or get quick driving directions to multiple destinations."
• Addess data geocoding from USC
  Free geocoder ("convert postal addresses into geographic coordinates using a state-of-the-art research geocoding platform") and other tools from the University of Southern California's GIS research laboratory.
  
• Elevations and distances in the United States
  An online publication by U.S. Geological Survey that provides facts about elevation and distance extremes, boundary lengths, and geographic centers of the U.S.
• GPS Visualizer
  "'Geocoding' is the process of converting street addresses or other locations (ZIP codes, postal codes, city & state, airport IATA/ICAO codes, etc.) to latitude and longitude, which can be entered into a GPS device or geographical software. GPS Visualizer offers several options for geocoding your information, free of charge."
• North American Numbering Plan Administration
  This site provides information for NANPA, the Public Switched Telephone Network in the United States and its territories.
• Eagle Geocoder
  Input an address and Eagle will match it and return information about the address and a map to go with it.
• Mathematical Data for Bibliographic Descriptions of Cartographic Materials and Spatial Data
  Includes charts for conversion of obsolete measures of length.
• NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Atomic Web Clock
  Set your watch with the EXACT time, based on NIST's atomic clock. You can also download software to synchronize your PC's clock.
• National Geographic Society Publications Index
• INFOMINE:Scholarly Internet Resource Collections:Maps & GIS
  University of California's searchable database of links to over 500 online resources including maps, satellite images, photographs, software and data/image bases.
• How to set up a horizontal Sundial