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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/
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