*** Note that Oddens' Bookmarks are not being updated any longer ***
Many of the links listed on
Oddens'
Bookmarks are relevant for the history of cartography. The Bookmarks
includes over 22,000 links but is not actively maintained at present (January 2007).
The Bookmarks include details of individual early
maps from several series. See also 'Four years
of Oddens' Bookmarks: The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping'
(LIBER Quarterly 10,4 (2000)).
In 1999, the Bookmarks were re-organised from a series of
separate files into a database. This has a search facility that allows
you to
retrieve via any single word in the link titles or via the country or
region concerned. Ton Markus, who was responsible
for re-engineering the Bookmarks, has kindly provided the internal
searches below, specially tailored for those who are interested in
historical subjects.
If you want to include modern material in your search, go to Oddens' Bookmarks itself
and
search from there.
If you are interested in the links that concern antiquarian
subjects
alone (almost 4,500 in all), select one of
the following from the option below. The number of links (as at December 2003) is given in brackets afterwards:-
Cartographic Curiosities (128)
History of Cartography - Literature (492)
Maps and Atlases - Old (2,982)
Map Collections - General (416)
Map Collections - Catalogues (113)
Sellers of Cartographic Material - Antiquarian (348)
After choosing a category and/or a country, click
"Show me the links". Do not hit return
The sites described below are those that are regularly updated, since it is frustrating to be
faced with a list of dead links. Where update information is available it is given at the end
of the entry. See also Roelof Oddens's 'Map collections on the World
Wide Web' in ICA News 36 (June 2001) [PDF format].
I would like to make a general acknowledgement of the help I have obtained from other
websites and particularly listings and gateway sites, such as those mentioned below.
Most of the links I have 'discovered' have come from other people's sites, rather than
Google searching. I hope that others, in turn, can make good use of the links on
this 'Map History' site.
The gateway sites below were last checked in October 2004
Historical Map Web Sites (The Perry-Castańeda Library Map Collection, The University of
Texas at Austin - a large number of good links, particularly for America). [Last seen when
updated to 22 October 2004]
'Historical
Maps' (a large list of links to images of original and historical maps, arranged by
broad geographical region; with an alternative arrangement in a single alphabet -
'Edfiles Social Studies made for teachers by a teacher')
History Matters.
[Very useful descriptive entries, in the manner of the LII; search, e.g. for maps,
either as 'keyword' or 'primary sources online']
Intute ('Intute is a free online service providing you with access to
the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners.
Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The
database contains 118064 records' (July 2007). The coverage is worldwide)
(ipl2) ("ipl2 is
the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index
(LII)")
’The Map Curators' Toolbox’. [Including some historical sections - April Carlucci,
Tinho da Cruz and Anne Taylor, for the British Cartographic Society, first mounted in 2004]
'The Map Room: a weblog
about maps'. [Run by Jonathan Crowe in Ottawa, with an archive going back to April
2003, and, since 2004, specific archive sections, e.g. for 'Antique maps' and
'Exhibitions'; further information is available to members of the MapRoom discussion list]
Open Directory Project
[dmoz] ('Reference: Maps: Historical' - also selections in French, German, Italian and
Japanese). [Last checked November 2005]
