- Online
Map Creation
- Creates a map if you know the longitude and latitude of the geographic
entity. You can put in national boundaries, rivers and channels. You
can also save the map in Postscript (EPSF) or Adobe Illustrator format.
The files download in .zip format. In English and German. http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/omc_intro.html
- Philadelphia Print
Shop - African Maps (Philadelphia, PA)
- Sells antique prints, maps, including African maps. Has descriptions and
photographs. http://www.philaprintshop.com/africa.html
- Rights Maps
- Cartography and geographic research for the human rights community. Has
oil field maps for the Sudan,
ethnic maps, town maps. Maps are sold and created by Michael Miller. [KF]
http://www.rightsmaps.com/
- Rumsey, David - David Rumsey
Collection
- Over 200 antiquarian African maps from the private collection of David
Rumsey. Includes detailed descriptions. Use the right hand icons to zoom
in, read map descriptions, etc. Maps cover the African continent, South
Africa, West Africa, North Africa, ethnographic. Other maps: an 1895 religious world map; The British Empire, showing the commercial routes of the World. http://www.davidrumsey.com/
- Sanderus Antiquariaat (Ghent, Belgium)
- Sells antiquarian African maps, atlases. "specialised in antiquarian books, medieval manuscripts, antique maps and prints from the 15th to the 18th centuries." Founded in 1980 by Filip Devroe. A member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA). Based in Ghent, Belgium.
http://www.sanderusmaps.com
- Shand,
Mike - Tanzania Digital National Atlas
- Detailed atlas with political, population, physical, and natural environment
sheets. Includes 1988 population census data, information on national parks
and game reserves including year established, etc. The files can be large,
300K or more. Created by Mike Shand, Senior Cartographer, Dept. of Geography
& Topographic Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland. http://mshand.geog.gla.ac.uk/ATLAS%20OF%20TANZANIA/atlas.htm
- Shand,
Mike - Tanzania Page
- Mike Shand is a Senior Cartographer
from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Has his Tanzania 2000
election map, other maps (East Africa, Tanzania, regions, population
maps, Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Moshi). Shand's food security atlas
of Kagera Region (with Stijn Huysman) will have 40 maps in Adobe
PDF format. Also has the Tanzania coat of arms, photos (Mt. Kilimanjaro,
etc.), audio file of the song, Malaika,
links to related sites. [KF] http://mshand.geog.gla.ac.uk/DAR/Tanzania.htm
- Shell Nigeria [Maps)
- Includes maps (Nigeria and Neighbouring countries, Nigerian
States, Ecological Zones of the Niger Delta, Niger Delta Oil Regions, Ethnic
Areas of the Niger Delta). [KF] http://www.shellnigeria.com
- Stanford University Libraries - Maps of Africa
- Stanford holds over 700 maps of Africa, 632 of which are online. Holdings include over 300 maps from the Oscar I. Norwich Collection. https://lib.stanford.edu/maps-of-africa
- Stanford
University. Guide to the Oscar I. Norwich Collection of Antiquarian Maps of Africa and
Its Islands, 1486-1865
- Finding aid for the Norwich collection of 316 antiquarian African
maps housed in the Stanford University Libraries, Department
of Special Collections. This finding aid does not include antiquarian
African maps held at Stanford but not part of the Norwich Collection. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt787007h3
See also - The Rediscovery of Africa, 1400–1900: Antique Maps & Rare Images: Exhibition of the Stanford University Libraries’ holdings of antique African maps including the Oscar I. Norwich collection, described as one the finest private collections of African maps in the world. April 1 through August 1, 2004.
- Stanford
University. Branner Earth Sciences Library
- Branner Library has links to free African GIS data. The Library holds 8,500-9,000 geological and other (non-antiquarian) print maps of Africa; these are not on-line. Its Map Valuation page created by Head Librarian, Julie Sweetkind-Singer, has sources
for estimating antiquarian map prices. http://library.stanford.edu/depts/branner/
- Stephens, David -
Making Sense of Maps
- Online tutorial about maps. The maps work only in MS Internet Explorer.
"an overview of the history of maps and how historians use them, a
breakdown of the elements of a map, tips on what questions to ask when analyzing
maps, an annotated bibliography, and a guide to finding and using maps online."
"David Stephens is professor of geography at Youngstown State University."
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/maps/
- [Tanzania] Geological
Survey of Tanzania (Mineral Resources Department, Dodoma, Tanzania)
- Country information, an infrastructure map, geological map, metallogenic
map, mineral sector policy, information on mining operations, licensing
procedure, industry taxation, geologic environment, databases and other
resources at the Mineral Resources Department, selected mining operations.
[KF] http://tanzania.sgu.se/
- UgandaMissions.org
(Jinja, Uganda) - Maps
- From the Churches of Christ, an "evangelical Christian mission working
in both rural and urban contexts." Has maps (Uganda administrative,
East Africa, Uganda coat of arms). [KF] http://ugandamissions.org/
- United
Nations. Cartographics Section
- In English and French.
Has detailed African maps (regional, country for most countries)
in Adobe pdf format. Also has maps and background text for African peace-keeping
missions (Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, Western Sahara),
also in Adobe pdf format. Has maps
from past peace-keeping operations (Angola and the 3 countries
above). Describes the Dag
Hammarskjöld Library Map Collection. http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm
- United Nations.
Relief Web - Africa Maps
- A huge number and variety of maps. Find maps by country, topic, disaster, etc. http://reliefweb.int/maps
- United Nations Sudan Information Gateway - Maps
- Full text reports, UN official statements, maps (including health), Sudan maps, South Sudan maps, Darfur maps, etc. Offices in Khartoum, Juba and Darfur. [KF] http://www.unsudanig.org/new_gateway/
- United States.
Census Bureau. HIV/AIDS Surveillance
- Listing, by country, of Estimates of HIV-1 and HIV-2 Seroprevalence
and continent-wide and regional African maps of HIV seroprevalence.
[KF] http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/hivaidsn.html
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Maps
- Has continent
and country maps - African Continent and Central Africa, Country Maps.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/refmaps.html
- United States. Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
- Has 17th-19th
c. maps of Africa, an 1842 map of South Africa (Cape of Good Hope),
and -
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- 19th
Century maps of Liberia which "includes twenty examples
from the American Colonization Society (ACS), organized in 1817 to resettle
free black Americans in West Africa. These maps show early settlements in
Liberia, indigenous political subdivisions, and some of the building lots
that were assigned to settlers. This on-line presentation also includes
other nineteenth-century maps of Liberia: a map
prepared for a book first published in the 1820's by ACS agent Jehudi
Ashmun, a map showing the areas in Liberia that were ceded to the society
by indigenous chiefs, and a detailed map dated 1869 by a man thought to
be the black American explorer Benjamin Anderson." There is a History
of Liberia Timeline.
- Africa: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdPlaces01.html
- Liberia: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/libhtml/libhome.html
- United
States Military Academy. Department of History. Map Library
- Atlases produced by West Point's History Dept. The maps are the "digital
versions from the atlases printed by the United States Defense Printing
Agency." Under "Wars
and Conflicts Since 1958" are maps
of Somalia 1992-93 and the city of Mogadishu. Click on the maps for
en enlargement. http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/dhistorymaps/MapsHome.htm
- United
States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Earth at Night (including
Africa)
- Graphic of the Earth at Night, a composite of hundreds of pictures made
by the orbiting DMSP [Defense Meteorological Satellites Program] satellites.
Click on the image for an enlargement.
This was the November 27, 2000 Astronomy
Picture of the Day. From NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. [KF] http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html
- University of Bern. Centre for Development and Environment - Sudan Map Shop
- Maps of Southern Sudan, Darfur, Nuba Mountains. "Reports, hard copy maps, digital map files and individually compiled desktop maps..." High resolution maps, print maps can be ordered. Based in Bern, Switzerland. [KF] http://www.cde.unibe.ch/tools/sudan/mapshop/
- University of California,
Santa Barbara. Alexandria Digital Library
- Map locator and gazetteer.
With the gazetteer, put in a place name and retrieve matches including variant
names, longitude, latitude, and a map. Zoom in or out with the maps. http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/
- University of Cape Town - African Historical Maps
- UCT's African historical maps and Cape Town early street plans are online. A joint project of the UCT Libraries and the Stanford University Libraries funded by The William and Yvonne Jacobson Digital Africana Program at UCT. http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/blog/news/african-historical-maps/
- University
of Florida (Gainesville). Map and Imagery Library - Africa
- Has U.S. C.I.A. maps of Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, US National Imagery and
Mapping Agency maps of the West Africa Coasts of Southern Mauritania and
Northern Senegal, Port of Dakar and Baie De Goree, Senegal; antique
maps of the city and fort Cape of Good Hope, and more. http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/maps/MAPAFRICAMOD03.HTML
- University of Illinois - Maps of Africa to 1900
- "images of maps listed in ... Maps of Africa to 1900: A Checklist of Maps in Atlases and Geographical Journals in the Collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Bassett & Scheven, Urbana: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 2000)" Includes maps from "19th century atlases and geographical journals, including the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society (United Kingdom), the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de Paris (France), and Petermanns Geographische Mittheilungen (Germany)." http://images.library.illinois.edu/projects/africanmaps/index.asp
- University of Malawi - Chancellor College. Centre for Language Studies - Language Maps
- Promotes the development of all Malawian languages - Chichewa, Chitumbuka, Chiyao, Chisena, Chiitonga, Chilomwe
etc. Has Online Dictionaries for Chichewa, Ciyawo, and Citumbuka. Based in Zomba, Malawi. [KF] http://www.unima-cls.org/
Full text reports - LANGUAGE MAPPING SURVEY FOR THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL REGIONS OF MALAWI: LANGUAGES AND THEIR DIALECTS and District Language Maps.
Language Mapping Survey for Northern Malawi with Language Maps.
- University of Southern Maine. Osher Map Library and Smith Center for
Cartographic Education. Africa:
A Continent Revealed
- A Traveling Exhibit at the Osher Map Library from January 24th to May
17th, 1998. Provides a list of maps in the exhibit. The Library and Smith
Center are at the University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine. http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/exhibit4.html
- University
of Texas (Austin), Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - Africa Maps
- The Univ. of Texas has political maps, historical maps, an Islam
in Africa map, natural vegetation, population density, and individual
country maps. Most are from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa.html
- University
of Wisconsin - Madison. National African Language Resource Center, NALRC
[Language Map]
- "federally funded, nonprofit national foreign language center dedicated
to the advancement of African language teaching and learning in the United
States." Has a clickable language
map of Africa. [KF] http://lang.nalrc.wisc.edu/nalrc/home.html
- VintageMaps.com - Antique Maps & Prints
- PO Box 783, Wilton, CT 06897. "We sell only genuine antique maps
and prints, each one accompanied by a signed guarantee of authenticity.
Your purchase is shipped from our gallery located in Wilton, Connecticut..."
Has 19th
century African maps. Also has a blog on antique maps. The owner is Neil Street. http://www.vintagemaps.com
- West
Africa Historical and Contemporary Maps
- Four maps showing ancient empires and contemporary maps of West Africa,
Africa, Ghana; source of maps not given. On C.
K. Ladzekpo's African Music and Dance web site. http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo/maps.html
- Wild Madagascar
- On Madagascar's biological and cultural richness. Maps (satellite
map with parks, cities, and roads labeled, political, vegetation, environment,
soil degradation, etc. most from FAO). Describes the environment, wildlife,
birds, flora. Photographs by
Butler and others. Maintained by Rhett A. Butler. [KF] http://www.wildmadagascar.org
- World Digital Library
- In seven languages. Primary sources world wide. Antiquarian African maps, Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu, early 20th century photographs, text of the speech by Nigerian independence leader Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904-96) on the day he became governor-general of Nigeria, South African San rock paintings, early travel journals. Supported by the U.S. Library of Congress, UNESCO, and National Libraries world wide. http://www.wdl.org/
- World Eagle (Littleton,
MA)
- Sells laminated maps, a map comparing the African
continent with the size of other countries, a Muslim
world map, maps comparing
African countries to the U.S., a cd-rom reproducible atlas, "Africa
Today." "World Eagle is a....non-profit publisher of social studies
materials for middle school, high school and college levels." http://www.worldeagle.com/index.htm
- World History - Map Tutorial
- Tutorial by Professor Joni Seager, University of Vermont. Provides an analysis of the “Africae novo” map, from the early 1600s. Annotated bibliography, directory of on-line maps. The World History site is created by the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. [KF] http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/unpacking/mapsmain.html
- Worldmapper
- Hundreds "of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest." Compare continents, countries by land area, population (year 1, year 1500 up to year 2300), births, the elderly, refugees, immigrants, tourism, transportation, imports, exports, water resources, forestry, managers (by gender), patents, urban indicators, education, health, natural disasters, endangered species, military, environmental damage, science research, telecommunications, the media, wealth, poverty, etc. Data files available. Provides printable maps. From the University of Sheffield, Social and Spatial Inequalities Research Group. [KF] http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/index.html
- Yale
Divinity School. AdHoc - Image and Text Database on the History of
Christianity
- A Yale Divinity School faculty-library initiative, web-searchable
database that contains electronic images and texts related to the history
of Christianity. Contents include: Map showing locations
of mission stations. (maps can be enlarged). Photographs/postcards of
missionaries. Map of Anglican Church dioceses in Africa ca. 1897. Maps
of Church Missionary Society missions in Africa. Map of the Partition of Africa as settled by international agreements, ca. 1891. Slave Trade Map of Equatorial Africa, ca. 1887. Based in New Haven, Connecticut. [KF] http://divdl.library.yale.edu/dl/index.aspx?qc=AdHoc
- Yale University
Library - Antiquarian African Maps
- Images of 16th-19th African maps at Yale University Library (Willem Janszoon
Blaeu maps, Ethiopian maps, an 1870 Tokyo made map). See also "The
Eye of the Beholder: Africa Through Western Eyes" a 1997-98 Yale
exhibit of historical maps of Africa which demonstrate the changing perceptions
of Africa by the West. http://www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/africa.html
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by [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign], The Graduate School of Library
and Information Science, c2000.
317 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. Series: (Robert B. Downs Publication Fund ; no.
9)
This work is the 2002 Conover-Porter
Award Co-Winner for excellence in Africana bibliography or reference work.
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The mapping of Africa :
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