Contains two of Snow's maps, published in his 1855 book. Mercator's World is devoted to modern exploration, historic discoveries, and the art, history and science of mapmaking. Here - Matt Rosenberg is the Guide for The Mining Company's Geography website and he has weekly articles about geography, annotated links to hundreds of the best sites for maps and geographical information, a glossary, weekly quizzes, a bulletin board and chat room for those interested in geography and many other continuously updated geography resources. It's put together by Roelof Oddens, Faculty of Geographical Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Here - A well known and well respected map collection at the University of Texas.
Maps help create our world view.
The Ryhiner map collection is one of the most valuable and outstanding collections of the world. It consists of more than 15,000 maps, charts, plans and views from the 16th to the 18th century, covering the whole globe. Together with the 20,000 manuscript maps of the State Archives, the Canton of Berne owns not only a local, but a worldwide geographical memory. It's our duty to preserve this cultural heritage and make it accessible. Hand picked sources in categories like local news, Information, photos, tv.