Boston and New England
- Massachusetts Real Estate Atlases
A collection of recently digitized real estate atlases from the State Library’s collections, including municipal volumes that cover cities and towns throughout the Commonwealth; also available in the State Library’s online repository - Mapping Massachusetts: The Development of Transportation Systems in Massachusetts
A collection of recently digitized Massachusetts maps, manuscripts, photographs, annual reports, and hearings from the State Library’s collections related to the development of transportation systems in the state during the 19th and early 20th centuries - Maps of Massachusetts
Massachusetts maps provided by the Secretary of the Commonwealth - Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS)
The Commonwealth's official geographic and environmental information resource - University of New Hampshire Library Government Documents Department
Historical United States Geological Survey (USGS) maps of New England and New York - David Rumsey Map Collection from Cartography Associates
Historical maps of the Boston area from 1776 through 1897 - Boston Redevelopment Authority Maps of Boston
Maps of Boston and Boston neighborhoods - The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library
Maps of the World, United States, and New England - The Boston Atlas
Maps of Boston, including GIS data and historical maps - Online: Massachusetts Maps
Historical maps dating from 1637 provided by the Massachusetts Historical Society, including a detailed atlas of Boston property owners in 1798
United States
- National Geologic Map Database
Geoscience resource for maps and related data about geology, hazards, earth resources, geophysics, geochemistry, geochronology, paleontology, and marine geology - United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Federal resource for scientific information about the earth, its natural and living resources, natural hazards, and the environment - TerraServer
High resolution USGS aerial imagery and USGS topographic maps - Stanford University’s List of Federal and State Clearinghouses
Websites for digital geographic information systems (GIS) data - National Atlas
Federal resource for national-scale geographical information - National Map Viewer
Provides access to the national map data from the USGS
International
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
University of Texas at Austin’s collection of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) scanned political and shaded relief maps - World FactBook
CIA resource with maps, flags, and statistics on people, government, the economy, transportation, communication, and defense for countries of the world - USGS Global Visualization Viewer
Global locator map - The GIS Data Depot
Resource for GIS and geospatial data - Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center
Global land cover characterization - The Harvard Geospatial Library
Harvard University’s catalog and repository of data for GIS
Historical
- American Memory Map Collections
The Library of Congress’ online map collections - Images of Early Maps on the Web
Annotated list of free links to early maps online - United States Military Academy Library Digital Collection
West Point Library’s collection of colonial and federal era maps
General
- Consular Information Program’s International Travel Warnings
Federal resource for travel conditions around the world - Google Earth
Google’s virtual globe
This information is provided by The State Library of Massachusetts.