LINKS: Map Data

[Max Olson]

The best places to find historic map data:

Current map data

Natural Earth shapefiles (new 2.0 as of Nov.2012) http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ 

MapBox links to current map data: http://mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/guides/recommended-sources/

National Atlas (government map data) http://nationalatlas.gov/

New countries: http://www.polgeonow.com/search/label/new%20countries

Archival maps

OldMaps: http://www.oldmapsonline.org

David Rumsey Collection: http://www.davidrumsey.com

Maphub (annotates & overlays old maps) http://maphub.github.io/

http://www.historicmapworks.com

Historic map index: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/index.html

U.S. maps: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html

Historical Geography of the US: http://dsl.richmond.edu/historicalatlas/

Historic topo maps: http://nationalmap.gov/historical/index.html , http://historical.mytopo.com/

Sanborn Insurance Map Archive (660,000 maps) (must have ProQuest access): http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/maps/sanborn.html

Historic maps: http://mapsof.net/map-search?maptype=historical

Modern-made historic maps

Historic political boundaries: http://www.euratlas.net/history/europe/index.html (can\'t use GIS; terms too restrictive)

Europe & Middle East 1000-2000, animated: http://www.historicalatlas.com/

World History maps (everything) http://www.worldhistorymaps.com/

National Historical GIS: https://www.nhgis.org/

List of sovereign states http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_1935 

Old maps + modern historic maps : (mostly Asia + Middle East) http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/index.html

Hand crafted world history maps + sources: http://www.worldhistorymaps.info/maps.html

Wikipedia historic world culture maps: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_2000_BC.svg

U.S. maps + data: http://www.socialexplorer.com

Other online history maps

5,000 years of World borders http://geacron.com/

MapStory (country borders since 1980) http://mapstory.org/data/geonode:BordersWu

Atlas of World History http://www.atlasofworldhistory.com/

Chronoatlas (very buggy) http://www.chronoatlas.com/