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This section of WestWeb provides information about Mapping the West. Under Links to Mapping the West, you will find links to online collections and exhibits of maps dealing with the West. Under Making Maps, you will find valuable resources for using GIS and other ways of making maps.



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Links to Mapping the West


Map Sources for the West

The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas-Austin, including the library's City Maps Collection Page.

The University of Georgia's Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library, an outstanding collection of internet-accessible historical maps, including maps of the Western U.S. and the "frontier" period.

The University of Virginia Library's online exhibit, "Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark."

Travel the Highway of the Devil by four-wheel-drive vehicle.

The Illustrating Traveler

TIGER Mapping Service "Coast to Coast" Digital Map Database.

Maps of the United States

Aerial photographs of Several Regions

Map Machine from National Geographic

Geography - Welcome from The Mining Company

Earth Sciences & Map Library Home Page

Rare Map Collection



Making Maps

The Mapmaker site, a starting point for making your own maps with GIS.

Bruce M. Gittings at the University of Edinburgh's index of WWW servers of GIS mapping sites.

The Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies (CALMIT) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln provides lots of information on mapping technologies.



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