Geography & cartography: General resources

Cartographic links on Internet / Terkepeszeti targyu linkek az Interneten – Hungarian site.

Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS)

Crampton, Jeremy W., Mapping: a critical introduction to cartography and GIS, John Wiley and Sons, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Desimini, Jill, Cartographic grounds: projecting the landscape imaginary, Princeton Architectural Press, GA102.3 .C368 2016

Dodge, Martin, Classics in Cartography: reflections on influential articles from Cartographica, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 (via Ebook Central) 

"Geography, Maps and Atlases" (Sacramento State University)

Plantin, Jean-Christophe, Participatory mapping: new data, new cartography, John Wiley & Sons, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Thrower, Norman J. W., Maps & Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society, 3rd ed., University of Chicago Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Wood, Denis & John Fels, The natures of maps: cartographic constructions of the natural world, University of Chicago Press, GA151 .W56 2008

Audouze, Jean & Guy Israel, “The history of astronomy,” in The Cambridge Atlas of Astronomy, 3rd  ed., Oversize-QB65.G6813 1994, p.434-444

Beck, Roger, A brief history of ancient astrology, John Wiley & Sons, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

The Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission

Mellinger, Axel & Ronald Stoyan, The Cambridge photographic star atlas, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

NASA Maps of the Solar System

Thompson, J. M. T., Advances in Astronomy: from the Big Bang to the Solar System, Imperial College Press, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes

Sumira, Sylvia, Globes: 400 years of exploration, navigation, and power, University of Chicago Press, GA260 .S87 2014

Barber, Peter (editor), The map book, Levenger Press, GA201 .M36 2005

Birkholz, Daniel, The king’s two maps: cartography and culture in thirteenth-century England, Routledge, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Holzer, Gerhard, et al (editors), World of innovation: cartography in the time of Gerhard Mercator, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography (Periodical published once each year)

Monmonier, Mark (editor), The history of cartography, volume six: cartography in the twentieth century, The University of Chicago Press, 2015 (via www.press.uchicago.edu/books)

Talbert, J. A. & Richard W. Unger, Cartography in antiquity and the Middle Ages, Brill, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Thrower, Norman J. W., Maps & civilization: cartography in culture and society, 3^rd ed., University of Chicago, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

“Nautical Cartography: the making of a NOAA nautical chart,” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Revised June 8, 2018

Office of Coast Survey Historic Maps and Chart Collection

Panayotov, Kristiyan, “The study of mapping the seafloor,” Hydro International, January 2019 (via www.hydro-international.com)

Monmonier, Mark S., How to lie with maps, University of Chicago Press, G108.7 .M66 1991

Muehrcke, Phillip C. & Juliana O. Muehrcke, Map use: reading, analysis, and interpretation, 4^th ed, GA105.3 .M83 1998

Rosenberg, Matt, “Map reading for beginners,” ThoughtCo., updated March 19, 2018 (Side menu provides links to additional articles discussing branches of geography, maps, climate, and history. Ignore the advertisements.)

Wood, Denis & John Fels, The nature of maps: cartographic constructions of the natural world, University of Chicago Press, GA151 .W56 2008

Fraile-Garrido, Patricia, et al., "Social cartographies: an urbanism of open framework," TAD: Technology, Architecture + Design, Spring 2025, Vol. 9, #1, p.173-189

Her City, a joint urban development initiative by UN-Habitat and the Shared City Foundation

orangotango (editor), This Is Not an Atlas : A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies, transcript Verlag, 2018 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Vaughan, Laura, Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography, UCL Press, 2018 (open access book via Jstor)

Bing Maps

Google Maps

Mapquest

Briney, Amanda, “Use of thematic maps in geography,” ThoughtCo., updated August, 28, 2018 (Good site, but has advertisements)

Harmon, Katharine A., You are here: personal geographies and other maps of the imagination, Princeton Architectural Press, GA105.3 .H346 2004

Kish, George & Philippe Buache, “Early thematic mapping: the work of Philippe Buache,” Imago Mundi, Vol. 28, 1976, p.129-136 (PDF via Jstor)

Imhof, Eduard, Cartographic relief presentation, Esri Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

TopoView (National Geological Map Database via USGS)

Touya, Guillaume, et al, “Production of topographic maps with VGI: quality management and automation,” in Mapping and the citizen sensor, edited by Vyron Antoniou et al, Ubiquity Press, 2017, p.61-92 (via Jstor)

USGS Map Locator & Downloader (via USGS Store)

USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer (USGS and Esri)

BIOGEOGRAPHY - as Phytogeography or Zoogeography, biogeography studies the spatial distribution, past and present, of individual categories of plants or animals.

Briney, Amanda, “Biogeography: species distribution,” ThoughtCo., updated February 17, 2019

Cox, C. Barry, et al, Biogeography: an ecological and evolutionary approach, John Wiley & Sons, 2016 (via Ebook Central)

Crosby, Alfred W., Ecological imperialism: the biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900, Cambridge University Press, GF50 .C76 2004

Harcourt, Alexander H., Human biogeography, University of California Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Patterson, Bruce D. & Leonora P. Costa (editors), Bones, clones, and biomes: the history and geography of recent neotropical mammals, University of Chicago Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

CLIMATOLOGY - studies the state of the atmosphere, including average climatic values, seasonal and diurnal rhythms, extreme values, the frequency of values.

Barry, Roger Graham & Richard J. Chorley, Atmosphere, Weather, and Climate, Routledge, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

McGuffie, K., Climate Modeling Primer, 4^th edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Nicholson, Sharon E., Dryland climatology, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

CULTURAL & SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY -  studies the distribution in space and time of cultures and the elements of culture, such as artifacts and tools, techniques, attitudes, customs, languages, and religious beliefs; cultural complexes in their spatial organization and the cultural landscape.

Mitchell, Don, Cultural geography: a critical introduction, Blackwell Publishing, GF41.M55 2000

Rycroft, Simon, Swinging city: a cultural geography of London, 1950-1974, Routledge, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY - studies the characteristics of, differences among, and movements between areas in the production, exchange, and consumption of goods and services. Of special geographic interest are the localizations of economic activity as they have evolved historically within specific cultural and technological contexts, based on particular combinations of physical, biologic, and human resources, economic and political conditions, and interregional ties and movements.

Barnes, Trevor J., et al (editors), Reading economic geography, Blackwell Publishing, HF1025.R275 2004

Barnes, Trevor J., et al (editors), The Wiley-Blackwell companion to economic geography, John Wiley & Sons, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center

Carlson, Allen, “Environmental aesthetics,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2011 

Morton, Timothy, The ecological thought, Harvard University Press, QH540.5 .M66 2012

Morton, Timothy, Ecology without nature: rethinking environmental aesthetics, Harvard University Press, PR448.E58 M67 2007

Geographical Names Standardization, United Nations, Dept. of Economic & Social Affairs, 2006

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Track name changes over time and language)

GEOMORPHOLOGY - studies the forms of the land's surface and of the processes that mold them.

Burbank, Douglas W. & Robert S. Anderson, Tectonic geomorphology, John Wiley & Sons, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Gupta, Avijit, Tropical geomorphology, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Harris, Peter T. & Elaine K. Baker, Seafloor geomorphology as benthic habitat, Elsevier, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Owens, Philip N. & Olav Slaymaker (editors), Mountain geomorphology, Routledge, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Slaymaker, Olav, et al (editors), Geomorphology and global environmental change,Cambridge University Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY - studies the geography of past periods or dates or with changes over time as the landscape evolves. The first aspect is a horizontal consideration of the areal patterns during specific periods in time; the other entails a vertical analysis of the process of change through time.

Brückner, Martin (editor), Early American cartographies, University of North Carolina Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Carnes, Mark C., Historical atlas of the United States, Routledge, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Creason, Glen, Los Angeles in maps, Random House, GA460.L8 C74 2010

Hayes, Derek, Historical atlas of the United States: with original maps, University of California Press, G1201.S1 H4 2007

Historical Geography: An Annual Journal of Research, Commentary and Reviews (current and archived issues starting from 2000)

Nebenzahl, Kenneth, Mapping the Silk Road and beyond: 2,000 years of exploring the east, Phaidon, G2201.S1 N4 2004

Whitfield, Peter, Cities of the world: a history in maps, University of California Press, G1030 .W5 2005

Brückner, Martin (editor), Early American Cartographies, University of North Carolina Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Edson, Evelyn, The world map, 1300-1492: the persistence of tradition and transformation, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Friis, Herman R., “A brief review of the development and status of geographical and cartographical activities of the United States government: 1776-1818,” Imago Mundi, Vol.19, 1965, p.68-80 (PDF via Jstor)

Park, Hyunhee, Mapping the Chinese and Islamic worlds: cross-cultural exchange in pre-modern Asia, Cambridge University Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Stein, Mark, How the states got their shapes, Smithsonian Books/Collins, W161.3.S74 2008

Allen, James Paul & Eugene Turner, Changing faces, changing place: mapping Southern Californians, Center for Geographical Studies, California State University, F867 .A445 2002 (Oversize)

Cresswell, Tim, Place: a short introduction, Blackwell Publishing, GF50 .C74 2004

Fouberg, Erin Hogan, Human geography: people, place, and culture, John Wiley & Sons, GF41 .D4 2009

Johnson, Dictionary of Human Geography, 2009

Linberger, Peter (compiler), “Sources of demographic data on the web,” Map and Geospatial Information Round Table (American Library Association), 2001

Mogel, Lize & Alexis Bhagat, An atlas of radical cartography, Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press, G62.A85 2007

Wakida, Patricia (editor), LAtitudes: an Angeleno’s atlas, Heyday, F869.L85 L37 2015

Wilson, Julie, Geographies of tourism: European research perspectives, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY - studies the diffusion of infectious diseases through space and time, the ecology of malnutrition in relation to medical problems, and the spatial location and allocation of health-care facilities.

Gatrell, Anthony C. & Susan J. Elliott, Geographies of health: an introduction, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Koch, Tom, Cartographies of Disease: maps, mapping and medicine, University of Chicago Press, 2005

Peterson, Eskild, et al (editors), Infectious Diseases: a geographic guide, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

NAVIGATION –concerns directing a craft by determining its position, course, and distance traveled in order to find the way, avoid collision, conserve fuel, and meet schedules. Contemporary navigation systems link geographic information system (GIS) data with multimedia technologies (geomedia). Furthermore, digital mapping, made possible in part by crowd-sourced information, has given rise to a new populist / public form of cartography.

Akerman, James R., Cartographies of travel and navigation, University of Chicago Press, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

Crampton, Jeremy W., “Will peasants map?: Hyperlinks, map mashups, and the future of information,” in The hyperlinked society: questioning connections in the digital age, edited by Joseph Turow & Lokman Tsui, University of Michigan Press, 2008, p.206-226 (via Jstor)

Gooley, Tristan, The natural navigator: a watchful explorer’s guide to a nearly forgotten skill, Experiment, GV200.4 .G66 2011

Latitude: Changed Knowledge of the World

Presner, Todd Samuel, HyperCities: thick mapping in the digital humanities, Harvard University Press, AZ186 .P74 2014

Sobel, Dava, Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time, Penguin, QB225.S64 1995

Travel Model Improvement Program, Travel Demand Forecasting

Verhoeff, Nanna, “Performative cartography,” in Mobile screens: the visual regime of navigation, Amsterdam University Press, 2012, p.133-166 (via Jstor)

National Geophysical Data Center

Thomas, David S. G., et al (editors), The dictionary of physical geography, John Wiley & Sons, 2016 (via Ebook Central)

Wood, Denis & John Fels, The nature of maps: cartographic constructions of the natural world, University of Chicago Press, GA151 .W56 2008

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY -  studies larger political groupings into regional alliances on the one scale and their subordinate division into political-administrative units on another, including issues such as boundaries; the relation of core and peripheral areas; metropolitan powers and colonies; with the bases of political power; international trade and aid and territorial waters.

Agnew, John, et al (editors), The Wiley Blackwell companion to political geography, John Wiley & Sons, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Dorrian, Mark & Gillian Rose (editors), Deterritorialisations: revisioning landscapes and politics, Black Dog Publishing, GF90.D47 2003

Staeheli, Lynn A., et al (editors), Mapping women, making politics: feminist perspectives on political geography, Routledge, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

FUNCTIONAL GEOGRAPHY – offers an alternative to political geography, emphasizing infrastructural connectivity in the areas of transportation, communications, and energy.

Connectivity Atlas, visualizes the world’s man-made communications, energy, and transportation infrastructures on one map

Giberti, Alessandro, “The economy of innovation,” Domus, March 2018 (supplement), p.4-7 (On Connectivity Atlas)

Khanna, Parag, “How megacities are changing the map of the world,” TED, February 2016 (via www.ted.com)

POPULATION GEOGRAPHY - studies the distribution of population in relation to its various characteristics, such as growth, number, density, age, sex, fertility, mortality, natural increase, and occupations; division into rural and urban, ethnic, linguistic, or religious groupings; and migrations.

Bailey, Adrian, Making population geography, Routledge, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Epperson, Bryan K., Geographical genetics, Princeton University Press, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Newbold, K. Bruce, Six billion plus: world population in the twenty-first century, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Oswalt, Philipp & Tim Rieniets, Atlas of shrinking cities, Hatje Cantz, HB1951 .A857 2006 (Oversize)

REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY - employs the full range of different specializations and sub-disciplines of geography to analyze and describe a specific area.

AFRICA

Arrous & Lazare Ki-Zerbo, African studies in geography from below, Counseil pour le développement de la recherché en sciences sociales en Afrique (CODESRIA), 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Gordon, Donald L., Understanding contemporary Africa, 4th ed., Lynne Rienner Publishers, DT30.5 .U536 2007

Heine, Bernd & Derek Nurse (editor), A linguistic geography of Africa, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (via ebook Central)

Maps of the World - Africa

Murray, Martin & Garth Myers (editors), Cities in contemporary Africa, Palgrave Macmillian, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

THE AMERICAS

Gallup, John Luke, et al, Is geography destiny?: Lessons from Latin America, World Bank Publications, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Hudson, John C., Across this land: a regional geography of the United States and Canada, (via Ebook Central) 2002

Mayda, Chris, A regional geography of the United States and Canada, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

McIlwraith, Thomas F. & Edward K. Muller (editors), North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001 (via Ebook Central)

ASIA

Bradnock, Robert W. & Glyn Williams (editors), South Asia in a globalizing world, Routledge, 2002 (via Ebook Central)

Rumney, Thomas A., The Geography of Southeast Asia, UPA, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

EUROPE

Dingsdale, Alan, Mapping modernities, Routledge, 2001 (via Ebook Central)

Jonsson, Christer, et al, Organizing European Space, SAGE Publications, 2000 (via Ebook Central)

McNeill, Donald McNeill, New Europe: imagined spaces, Routledge, 2014 (via Ebook Central)  

LOS ANGELES & THE WEST

Kaufmann, Obi, The California field atlas, Heyday Books, G1526.G3 K3 2017

Pease, Ben, Infinite city: a San Francisco atlas, University of California Press, G1527.S22 P4 2010

Selby, William A., Rediscovering the Golden State: California geography, John Wiley & Sons, F861.8 .S45 2006

THE MIDEAST

Bonine, Michael E., et al (editors), "Is there a Middle East: the evolution of a geopolitical concept," Stanford University Press, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Goren, Haim, Sacred, but not surveyed: nineteenth-century surveys of Palestine, Imago Mundi, Vol. 54, 2002, p.87-110 (PDF via Jstor)

THE PACIFIC

Major, R. H. (editor), Early voyages to Terra Australis, now called Australia, Hakluyt Society, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Nunn, Patrick D. Vanished islands and hidden continents of the Pacific, University of Hawaii Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

THE POLES

Arctic Information – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration site

National Research Council, Scientific Value of Arctic Sea Ice Imagery Derived Products, National Academies Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

LITERATURE

Conley, Tom, Errant eye: poetry and topography in early modern France, University of Minnesota Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Davies, Damian Walford, Cartographies of culture, University of Wells Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Maher, Susan Naramore, Deep map country: literary cartography of the Great Plains, UNP-Nebraska, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Pinet, Simone, Archipelagoes: insular fictions from chivalric romance to the novel, University of Minnesota Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Romm, James S., The edges of the earth in ancient thought: geography, exploration, and fiction, Princeton University Press, PA3015G44 R65 1992

Stein, Gertrude, Geography and Plays, University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 (Original published 1922) (via Ebook Central)

VISUAL ARTS

Alpers, Svetlana, "The Mapping Impulse in Dutch Art," The Art of Describing, University of Chicago Press, ND646.A72 1983

Dubbin, "Views & Panoramas," Lotus International, no. 52, 1986

Fisher, Jaimey & Barbara Mennel (editors), Spatial turns: space, place and mobility in German literary and visual culture, BRILL, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Fox, William, Aereality: on the world from above, Counterpoint, 2009 (via Via Ebook Central Central)

Maier, Jessica, “Francesco Rosselli’s lost view of Rome,” The Art Bulletin, September 2012, p.395-411 (PDF via Jstor)

Rosenberg, Daniel, Cartographies of time, Princeton Architectural Press, D11.5 .R64 2010

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES - studies the utilization of natural resources for the benefit of humans, usually on a sustained-yield or long-range basis. Environmental studies tend to focus on the plant and animal worlds and on the threats to them posed by human activities.

Black, Maggie, The atlas of water: mapping the world’s most critical resource, University of California Press, G1046.C3 B53 2016

CEDAR - Central European Environmental Data Request Facility

Committee on FEMA Flood Maps, Mapping the zone: improving flood map accuracy, National Academies Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

“Natural Resources and Environment,” U.S. Department of Agriculture (contains useful links)

Ewert, A. W., et al, Integrated Resource and Environmental Management: the human dimension, CABI, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Goudie, Andrew, Human Impact on the Natural Environment: past, present and future, John Wiley & Sons, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

EPA Environmental Measurements and Modeling

LaGro, James, Site Analysis: a contextual approach to sustainable land planning and site design, John Wiley & Sons, NA2540.5.L34 2008

LaGro, James, Site Analysis: informing context-sensitive and sustainable site planning and design, John Wiley & Sons, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Russ, Thomas H., Site Planning and Design Handbook, McGraw-Hill, NA2540.5.R87 2002

SOIL GEOGRAPHY - studies the areal distribution of soil types over the land, the principal factors in formation of different types of soil, the plant and animal world as the source of the organic matter in the soil, horizons in a vertical profile of the soil, and the moisture, drainage, and erosional conditions that underlie the chain, or catena, of soil differences

Eash, Neal, et al, Soil science simplified, John Wiley & Sons, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

French, C. A. I., Geoarchaeology in action: studies in soil micromorphology and landscape evolution, Routledge, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Holliday, Vance T., Soils in archaeological research, Oxford University Press, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Breed, Charles Blaney, Surveying, 2^nd edition, Wiley, TA545 .B83 1957

Cadastral Surveyor

Golubinskii, Aleksei, “New technology and the mapping of empire: the adoption of the astrolabe,” in Information and empire: mechanisms of communication in Russia, 1600-1854, edited by Simon Franklin & Katherine Bowers, Open Book Publishers, 2017, p.59-74 (via Jstor)

Land Surveyor Reference Page

National Society of Professional Surveyors

Scott, Amy, et al., Out of site : survey science and the hidden West, Autry Museum of the American West, F590.2.S36 2024

Virtual Museum of Surveying

URBAN GEOGRAPHY - studies the location, settlement, development of cities; and regularities, functional types, economic classification, expansion, land use, transportation and social problems.

Berry, Brian J.L. & James O. Wheeler, Urban geography in America, 1950-2000, Routledge, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

City Map Sites (Long alpha list of resources from UT Austin)

International Metropolis (Research & links)

Jonas, Andrew E. G., et al, Urban geography: a critical introduction, John Wiley & Sons, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Pacione, Michael, Urban geography: a global perspective, Routledge, GF125 .P33 2009

Susteren, Arjen van, Metropolitan world atlas, 010 Publishers, G1028 .S8 2005