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Maping Software
             Creek  Mtns Lake Exit Multiple
             Names       Name nums Sizes Counties Size
MapQuest 1     y     n     *    y      y      y  690x526 * requires zoom 2 for lake names
Yahoo          n     n     y    y      n      y  620x500
Google         n     n     y    n      ?      n  705x725
MapsOnUs       n     n     n    y      y      n  338x338      good for secondary road,
                                  had new street when above did not.
Map @ MSN      n     y     n
MS TerraServer n     y       Aerial Photos & Topo maps - Labels Natl Forest
1. Mapquest found towns (e.g. Concord in Lancaster Co., PA) which others did not.
See Examples

Aerial photos - Aatellite imagery:
Google Earth 
Live Search 
nj.gov/dep/gis/newmapping.htm NJ Aerial Photos from 1930
Calculate Distance at Gmaps Pedometer

MapMyRun.com/

411.com/find_neighbors
Find Home Values at Zillow

Find the latitude and longitude of street addresses in the US at GPSVisualizer.com, BatchGeoCode.com
Find the latitude and longitude of street addresses in the World at maporama.com
Resources for determining your latitude and longitude at N. Arizona U.
Find distance between two points given Lat/Lon at N. Arizona U.

Magnetic Declination at: National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)

Directions

US Maps

World Maps

City Lookup

MapsPlanet

Country Maps

Examples:

Lonely Planet
National Geographic
Ancestry.com
WorldAtlas.com
U. Texas

CIA World Factbook
Info Please: Europe: Italy
Expedia: Italy
Univ. Texas: Italy
Yahoo: Italy,
about.com: Italy (Uses CIA maps)
Virtual Tourist: Italy
Historical Maps Historic Atlas Resource - Europe

Map CD's and Printed maps
Historical Maps of the World

See also:
The map Room: A weblog about Maps
Geography and Demographics
www.macmaps.com/ (Mac related map sites)
Mapping Information (Coordinate Systems, software, symbols, ...)
Geographic Information System (GIS)


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last updated 15 Jan 2005