Map and Gazetteer Links
Links to map and gazetteer sites.
UK and Ireland
- ArchaeologyUK Place name search
- gazetteer.co.uk
- Gazetteer of British Place Names
- National Gazetteer of Wales
- National Gazetteer of Wales
- old-maps.co.uk
- Historic maps of Britain, highly flexible, with index and links to aerial photos etc.
- OS Gazetteer
- 250 000 UK placenames, returns grid reference and map link.
- OS grid ref to vice-county converter
- Find the vice-county location of an ordnance survey grid reference.
- www.streetmap.co.uk
- Covers Britain (not Ireland), an excellent flexible web site where localities, grid references, postcodes etc. can be searched for and localised but rather too many pop-up adverts.
rest of Europe
- deutsche-kaiserreich.de
- Maps of the German Reich 1871-1918, [German, with link for English machine-translation]
- infodirekt.se
- Street maps of Sweden, in Swedish only but should work by trial and error
- Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen
- Maps of Denmark, Greenland and the Faeroes, very good web site though [English version]
- Lantmäteriet
- maps of Sweden, very good, English version available
- National Land Survey of Finland
- Maps of Finland, very good web site available in Finnish, Swedish and English versions
- Nemzeti Kulturális Örökség Minisztériuma
- Maps of Hungary, a bit difficult to use but good maps, in Hungarian only
- Norgesglasset
- Maps of Norway, English version available [requires Java]
rest of World
- GEOnet Names Server
- US Government site, provides searchable database of 5.5 million locations with lat/long references. Worldwide coverage (excluding USA for which there is a seperate database).
- shaded-relief.com
- Customized Google maps showing shaded relief. (also includes a place name gazetteer). Well worth a look.
books-maps.com- Covers world-wide information, with some maps.
Cyndi's List- Maps, Gazetteers & Geographical Info - many general links
Getty thesaurus
- Getty Thesaurus, world-wide coverage
maps.ethz.ch- World-wide, detailed maps and downloadable gazetteers.
multimap- World-wide maps and some limited locality search
Perry-Castañeda Map Collection- World-wide, complex site with good locality search facility, etc.
theodora.com maps- world maps, limited search
thesalmons.org maps- world-wide maps, some limited search facility