Research Guides: Digital Maps & Mapping: Other Online Maps

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Other Digital Maps and Viewes

Data available at the links provided below cover some or up to the full spatial extent of Earth. The data generally are downloadable in file formats such as PDF or JPEG, or are only accessible in map viewers and cannot be downloaded. Some of these links may also provide geospatial file formats for download, such as shapefiles or GeoTIFFs. However, if you are specifically looking for geospatial data, see the "Free GIS Data" page on the Geographic Information Systems Library Research Guide for a list of links to free geospatial data.

IMF Data Mapper
Links to a data visualization tool from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which allows you to visualize economic data about the IMF's 188 member countries.
OpenStreetMap
Links to the main OpenStreetMap interactive mapper interface, which allows you to search for places and observe features that have been contributed by users and verified by those operating the project.
CIA World Factbook Regional And World Maps
Links to the regional and world maps reference web page of the United State's Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) World Factbook. From this page you can download pdf reference maps of regions of or the whole Earth.
University of Texas Libraries Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Links to a map collection hosted by the University of Texas Libraries, which has online maps of current and general interest, as well as historical maps at united states, continental, global, and most all country scales. This collection has extensive holdings for both thematic and topographic maps.
United Nations Geospatial Information Section
Links to the United Nations Geospatial Information web site, where you can download PDF maps for individual member counties, as well as world maps highlighting specific United Nations peace keeping and peace building missions.
ReliefWeb Maps
Links to the ReliefWeb data page, where you can access maps and other data visualizations for defined countries around the world. ReliefWeb is the largest humanitarian information portal in the world.
UNESCO World Heritage List
Links to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Oranization's World Heritage List. From this web page you can find all listed world heritage sites and view them and details about them on an interactive map.
United Nations Environment Programme GRID Sioux Falls
Links to the North American web page of the United Nations Environment Programme's Global Resource Information Database (GRID). This site has interactive maps you can use to view environmental changes occurring across Earth's surface.
NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
Links to the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), a data center as part of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and hosted by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University. From this site you can access and download Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data sets and digital maps, although to download these you will need to register a free account.
Antarctic Digital Database Map Viewer
Links to the Antarctic Digital Database Map Viewer, hosted by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. From this viewer you can view Antarctic base layers, topographic layers, and human activity, as well as download data from the repository in shapefile, KML, comma separated values, and GEO tiff file formats.

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