Matthew H. Edney
Favorite Links
This is a simple list of open-access sites that I have found to be particularly useful in my scholarship and teaching.
The key starting points for all things cartographic are:
Map History gateway (Tony Campbell's site providing links to map history on the web: a great list of image sites, free literature, conferences, etc.; it includes a link to Doktor's Calendar of forthcoming exhibitions and conferences.)
Oddens's Bookmarks (a canonical listing of all things cartographic on the web)
Image sites that I visit regularly:
Archive of Early American Images (the John Carter Brown Library's growing image library, which includes many maps)
Champlain Society (includes online facsimiles of all of the society's publications, including its classic English translation of Champlain's collected works)
David Rumsey Collection (the still-growing and truly remarkable image library, mostly of nineteenth-century U.S. maps and atlases)
Historic USGS Maps of New England & New York (pretty complete coverage)
ICC Cartoteca (the map collection of the Catalan Cartographic Institute)
Library of Congress Map Collections (the image library of the U.S.A.'s de facto national library, with an emphasis on the U.S.)
Useful on-line texts:
The Chicago Manual of Style Online (the writer's bible)
EMLS 9.1 [May 2003] 6.1-58 How to Read an Early Modern Map (Jess Edwards' very useful overview)
Useful on-line bibliographies:
Articles in journals on the history of cartography (maintained by Peter van der Krogt)
International Conferences on the History of Cartography: History (Doug Sims and Peter van der Krogt's history of the biennial conference series includes lists of all the papers and posters presented.)
Other very useful items:
Word MVPs (the site explaining how to use all the hidden power of MS Word, which I call my 'How I Learned to Love Word' website)
SeatGuru.com - Your Enlightened Guide to Airplane Seating (ever wanted to know the best seats in any given plane, by each airline's configuration?)
AddALL book search and price comparison (meta-search engine for old books)
Online Conversion - Convert just about anything to anything else (very useful!)
World Wide Words (for any logophile)
Guide to Springfield USA (not as cool as the marauders' map in the Harry Potter books, but almost ...)