The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps. The online collection is an expanding cross section of images designed to highlight the depth and breadth of the collection. There are two versions of the collection - one a straightforward Web site, the second an Insight Java client that allows researchers to really get into the collection. A software tool, Generic Mapping Tool, helps you create the map for your favorite geography. With links to the Ocean Drilling Program, you can find map information for anywhere on earth on land or at sea.
Maps can show political boundaries or physical features such as earthquake faults or rivers.
Users have the option of seeing their creation in black and white or color. You can find out more here as well as take a look at a brief cartographical history, which hinges on this invisible line. There's the inevitable stuff on the millennium, which dates the site a little. But, with the 'true' millennium turning point approaching as some pedants would have it, we can excuse them that. In-depth case studies on a wide range of topics such as agriculture, air pollution, desertification, industry and energy.