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Color Landform Atlas of the United States

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

This service, offered by the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, provides topographical and county maps for every state in the U. S. plus links to map lists at Yahoo, City Net, and Virtual Tourist.

Country Maps from W3 Servers in Europe

http://www.tue.nl/europe/

This clearinghouse site offers a clickable imagemap that lists the countries of Europe. Clicking a country's flag takes you to a map of that country. Maps vary in quality (the United Kingdom's map mainly listed universities, not cities or regions, while the link to the European Union didn't even offer a map), but all of Europe is represented. The pages offer English descriptions in addition to commentary in the country's native tongue.

International Map Trade Association

http://www.maptrade.org

Offers links to member stores' Web sites and a geographical directory of map and travel book retailers.

MapQuest

http://www.mapquest.com/

This remarkable but graphics-intensive site offers a number of map-related services. First, MapQuest has an interactive atlas that enables you to find virtually any street address or business in the continental United States. TripQuest will plot out a route from any city in the U.S. to any other. MapQuest offers Java applets and an interactive "walk" through their site.

National Atlas of Canada on SchoolNet

http://www-nais.ccm.emr.ca/schoolnet/

This site, offered in both English and French, offers demographic maps based on Canada's languages and aging population, maps of wetlands and natural hazards, an atlas of Canadian communities, and an interactive geography quiz.

The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html

This collection, based at the University of Texas at Austin, contains over 230,000 maps from all over the world. Be aware that the electronic version of the maps can be quite large—many of them are 300 KB or larger. Download times can be slow and the maps might tax your browser. The Frequently Asked Questions page offers tips for viewing these maps.

Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library

http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html

The Hargrett Library, at the University of Georgia Library, offers over 800 rare maps from the16th through the early 20th century. Early maps depict the New World, while others chart Colonial and Revolutionary America, the Civil War, and Georgia's Revolutionary period, cities, and coastal areas. File sizes are large and downloads are slow.

VIBE's World Map

http://pathfinder.com/vibe/vibeworld/worldmap.html

VIBE, an online magazine on Time-Warner's Pathfinder site, offers this world map page. Clicking on the time zone colors brings up the local time for that area plus a list of Web sites of cities in the region.