Welcome to the Map Room
So much to explore :-
Street maps and travel directions for the UK and Europe + Detailed maps of the world. And Wow! are the aerial photographs good.
Map of MultiMap.com's current Great Britain aerial photo coverage.
This is part of the National Geographic site. You can select from maps of the continent and country you wish to learn about. Then read about it, view satellite pictures of the earth (with names added), and learn from political and physical maps.
This site offers as many different projections, pictures, and views of the earth as you can think of! 105 entries!
This site provides address searching and street map facilities for the U.K.. It currently has street and road maps for the whole of mainland Britain.
Face the dilemma that cartographers necessarily handle: how to create a flat map from the round globe. Trace this progression through its different stages at this nifty site.
Finding
Your Way with Map and Compass
To determine the direction, or bearing, from
one point to another, you need a compass as well as a map. Most
compasses are marked with the four cardinal points -north, east,
south, and west-but some are marked additionally with the number
of degrees in a circle (360 north is 0 or 360, east is 90, south
is 180, and west is 270). Both kinds are easy to use with a little
practice.
A topographic map tells you where things are and how to get to
them, whether you're hiking, biking, hunting, fishing, or just
interested in the world around you. These maps describe the shape
of the land. They define and locate natural and manmade features
like woodlands, waterways, important buildings, and bridges.
They show the distance between any two places, and they also
show the direction from one point to another.
Distances and directions take a bit of figuring, but the topography
and features of the land are easy to determine. The topography
is shown by contours. These are imaginary lines that follow the
ground surface at a constant elevation; they are usually printed
in brown, in two thicknesses. The heavier lines are called index
contours, and they are usually marked with numbers that give
the height in feet or meters. The contour interval, a set difference
in elevation between the brown lines, varies from map to map;
its value is given in the margin of each map. Contour lines that
are close together represent steep slopes.
Welcome to Landmark Information Group's free historical maps service which uses data jointly owned by Ordnance Survey and Landmark. Around 85,000 images are available for viewing using a standard Internet browser.
Map
of John Snow's London in 1859
A historical map with sites of Victorian London during the time of Dr. John Snow (1813 - 58).
Map
History / History of Cartography
The Gateway to the Subject.
Start here to browse the award-winning Map Room web pages.There is contact information and full contents, including our extensive map-related links.
Select one of the times from the list on the left and travel through time and check out what the Earth looked liked in the far distant past or what it might look like far into the future. At each stop there is more information about each geological time period.
Satellite Images.
A very interesting site with a map that shows the current time for any place on Earth.
A world map showing time zones.
A real time view of the Earth showing areas of day and night around the planet. You can specify a centre point for the image by entering latitude and longitude co-ordinates, and even chose the point from which you view the planet. You might decide to see the view as if you were on the Sun or Moon looking at earth, stick with a normal map, or pop around to the dark side of the planet to see what that looks like. In fact, you can even decide on what you see; topography,clouds, infra red or false colour weather images!
How
long are days and nights ?
Comparative Lengths of Longest Day and Longest Night, and of Shortest Day and Shortest Night. Lengths of days and nights throughout the year vary. Have you ever wondered how much more daylight you get on the longest day than on the shortest? This site gives a good account of the differences between the longest day and the longest night, the shortest day and the shortest night. The reasons for changes in the length of daylight are also explained.
Map Adventures, What Do Maps Show? and Exploring Maps.
Cities and Towns
Cultural Landscapes
Conservation and Environment
Military Battles and Campaigns
Discovery and Exploration
Transportation and Communication.
World
Sea Surface Temperature Map
Fancy a swim? .. check this site out first.
