-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: : Historic Rand McNally Commercial Atlases online? Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:56:45 -0500 From: Dave Broer <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]> > These two registries were established only recently. A better place to > search for online maps and atlases (at this point in time) is WorldCat > -- which should be available through your local public library. A > simplified version of that database is freely available on the web at > http://www.worldcat.org > > Another good source is Infomine: > http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?category=maps > > > Philip Hoehn, Map Librarian > San Francisco -- [log in to unmask] > If I may, our library has been working on a project of indexing sites who only have online maps. The two sites listed above list some online maps, but mostly catalog listings. We have indexed 128 online collections (meaning maps/images) that you can view online with nearly 65,000 links and over 200,000 different keywords. We're also working on a newer version with improved searching that has indexed even more pages. The results are displayed Google style. A search for 'Rand McNally' returned 920 different links. Searching for a common city name like Springfield returned 346 different links, while the above returned far fewer than that. You can access the Historic Map Index here: http://www.broermapsonline.org/members/mapindex/ Dave Broer Director, Broer Map Library