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
BIMCC: Links to cartographic
web sites (Brussels Map Circle - until May 2012 known as the Brussels International Map Collectors' Circle). [Last seen when updated to 19 September 2004]
Digmap ('a service for
resource discovery and access to old maps and related resources, with a focus on their geographic
information' - listing and linking to about 50,000 'resources' [i.e. scanned maps?] from national
and other major collections around the world)
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' - this ceased operation in June 2011]
Old Maps Online ('The OldMapsOnline
Portal is an easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world. It allows the user to
search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical
search')
Open Directory Project
[dmoz] ('Reference: Maps: Historical' - also selections in French, German, Italian and
Japanese). [Last checked November 2005]