The Map Room houses the world's seventh largest collection of maps. Well over one million sheet maps and 20,000 atlases are available to readers. The collections include early examples of cartography, such as the fourteenth century Gough Map, portolan charts, estate maps and many atlases. The Bodleian Library is entitled to claim a free copy of any map published in Britain within one year of publication, so the Map Room has one of the most comprehensive collections of Ordnance Survey maps in existence. Excite Maps Maps and Directions of major U.S. and International cities are provided.
Users can also browse through maps of Africa, Asia, South America, and Australia among others.
Visitors to the site also have the ability to send e-cards with maps and directions attached. Lycos Roadmaps Let s users make customizable maps with directions to any location in the United States. If there is a need for directions to a locale outside of America they provide a alphabetical listing of countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe that they can help find maps and directions to. This is a compilation of several hundred, mostly pre-20th century, maps from the U.C. Berkeley Earth Sciences and Map Library collection. The General section includes world maps, maps covering individual countries, states, counties, and other administrative units, natural areas such as parks and forests, wilderness areas and cities.