General Maps

 

• Expedia Map Maker
• Google Maps
• SuperPages.com
• MapQuest
• MapBlast!
• AutoPilot
• MapMachine
• Maps on Us 
• Yahoo Maps
• National Geographic Map Machine
• Zip Code Maps from Zip Code Village & Google
• Library of Congress - Geography and Map Division
• U.S. Geological Survey Library
• EPA On-Scene Coordinator Map Guide
• Maps Directory - maps related news, books and web resources

   

 

 

• Microsoft® TerraServer - Aerial photography of nearly the entiere U.S. from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) provides georectified digitized aerial photographs and digitized topographical maps and from SPIN-2 high-resolution satellite images, products of a joint Russian/American venture to market declassified satellite photographs from sophisticated Russian mapping satellites. 

• USGS Locater & Downloads - USGS Map Locator and Downloader, a Web tool designed to deliver topographic maps easier, faster and less expensively than before.
  
  The TopoZone - The TopoZone is the Web's center for topographic map users and outdoor recreation enthusiasts. We've worked with the USGS to create the Web's first interactive topo map of the entire United States. If you're looking for maps that don't leave big blank spaces between the highways, welcome!
   
• Maptech - MapServer, lets you view the entire inventory of digitized maps and charts, print them out or Email them.  USGS topo maps, nautical charts, aero maps.  Most states available - entire US to be available by the end of 2000.
  

   

• Terra - The flagship in NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS), Terra launched on December 18, 1999, and began collecting science data on February 24, 2000. Also, visit the Visible Earth to browse the complete image archive.
  
  
• TOMS - NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS). Complete information and imagery for Aerosols, Ozone, Reflectivity, Erythemal UV, and Volcano (SO2).
   
• Digital Watershed - From Michigan State University's Institute of Water Research. Provides interactive watershed maps for anywhere in the entire US and is linked to Google Earth.
  
• GOME - The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME).
  
  
• Environmental Atlas - Environmental atlas of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This site offers an online environmental map collection, links to other important collections, and information to help you understand environmental quality maps, mapping, and environmental information.  U.S., state and regional maps.
   
• EPA's EnviroMapper - A dynamic way to view and query environmental information. EnviroMapper maps several types of environmental information, including drinking water, toxic and air releases, hazardous waste, water discharge permits, and Superfund sites. EnviroMapper also links to text reports, which provide even more information. 
   
• Atlas of America's Polluted Waters - Maps showing waters within each state that do not meet state water quality standards. States listed these waters in their most recent submission to EPA, generally, in 1998, as required by section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act. 
   
• North American Environmental Atlas - The NAFTA-based, Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) works with key mapping agency partners in Canada, Mexico, and the United States to promote understanding of significant continental-scale environmental issues through the North American Environmental Atlas
   
• North American Watershed Atlas - From the NAFTA-related, Commission for Environmental Cooperation, an integrated North American (Canada, Mexico, and the United States) dataset for roads, railroads, populated places, political boundaries, hydrology, bathymetry, sea ice and glaciers.
   
• EnviroMapper For Watersheds - Application provides users with interactive Geographic Information System (GIS) functionality using Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spatial data. Allows users to view spatial data at the national, state, county and zip code levels, as well as utilize GIS functionality, such as displaying multiple spatial layers, zooming, panning, identifying features, and querying single points.
   
• Natural Hazards Support System (NHSS), available on the USGS website, is a tool for monitoring and analyzing hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, severe weather, floods, wildfires and tsunamis.
   
• Watershed Atlas - is a catalog of geo-spatial displays and analyses of information and data important for watershed protection and restoration. You can use the catalog by geography, theme, key word, source/organization, and age of source data (under construction). Or search it using your words. 
   
• National Wetlands Inventory - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) provides digital wetlands data. GIS software is needed to view maps. FWS also provides the Wetlands Interactive Mapper Tool - displays national coverage of spatial themes, including wetlands data, high resolution hydrology and transportation, and US Fish and Wildlife refuges.
  
  
• AIRS Graphics on the Web - EPA's AGWeb, gives you access to maps and charts of air pollution information.
   
• HUD E-Maps - Healthy Communities Environmental Mapping — HUD E-MAPS — is a free Internet service that combines information on HUD’s community development and housing programs with EPA’s environmental data. 
   
• Biodiversity Mapping - BIOMAPS - Biodiversity Mapping for Protection and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources.  Global maps available.
  
• iMAPS Interactive Map Service - IPIECA and the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) have been working in partnership to develop an Internet-based biodiversity map library.
   
• Critical Mass - A biodiversity atlas of the U.S. and Canada from National Geographic.
   
• Great Lakes Info. Network - Maps & GIS of the Great Lakes Region
  
• The Great Lakes - An Environmental Atlas & Resource Book
   
• Great Lakes Goodyear Fish Spawning Atlas IMS - From the Great Lakes Ecosystems Information Node (GLEIN)
   
• Great Lakes GIS - A Geographic Information System for Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat
   
• Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes Region: A Multimedia Digital
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• Nuclear Waste Route Maps - From the Environmental Working Group and EWG Action Fund. Find routes to the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, from any zip code area or street address.
  

   

• Geodata.gov - part of the Geospatial One-Stop E-Gov initiative providing access to geospatial data and information.

• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) - coordinates the development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The NSDI encompasses policies, standards, and procedures for organizations to cooperatively produce and share geographic data. The 17 federal agencies that make up the FGDC are developing the NSDI in cooperation with organizations from state, local and tribal governments, the academic community, and the private sector.  The FGDC is tasked by Executive Order 12906 to develop procedures and assist in the implementation of a distributed discovery mechanism for digital geospatial data.

  • Search for Geospatial Data

  • Web Addresses of Participating Organizations

  • Stakeholders
    

• EcoSearch - EcoSearch Environmental Resources, Inc. is the fastest growing supplier of environmental database information in the United States. Note: Environmental Data Resources, Inc. (EDR), acquired FNIS' environmental information business units, including assets previously owned by VISTAinfo and EcoSearch Environmental Resources, Inc (March 2002).
   

• National Academies Geographic Information Center