Cartographic & Geographic Reference Sites

• Citation guides
  • Citing maps (Ohio Wesleyan University)
  • Guide to citing maps and atlases (McMaster University)
• Conversion utilities
  • Decimal degrees to Degrees/minutes/seconds and vice versa
  • Geographic to UTM / UTM to Geographic
  • Interactive unit converter
  • Unit conversion utility
• Copyright
  • Cornell Copyright Information Center
  • U.S.Copyright Office
• Distances
  • Direct-line distances between two points of latitude and longitude
  • Direct-line distancesbetween cities
  • Surface Distance and Great Circle Distances between cities
  • Sailing distances between United States ports
  • Sailing distances between international ports
• File formats
  • File format (GIS) - Lunds Universitet
  • GIS file formats - GeoCommunity
• Gazetteers
  • Canada
  • Central & Eastern Europe - JewishGen Shtetl Seeker
  • Scotland
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • World - NGA
  • World - Columbia Gazetteer
  • World - Getty Thesaurus
  • World - includes elevation calculations
• Geologic time scale
• Handbooks
  • CIA Factbook
  • Country Studies / Area Handbooks
• History of Cartography gateway
• Magnetic Declination
• Map Libraries
  • University of Minnesota list
  • Oddens' list
• Historic map & atlas valuation & conservation