Online Map Libraries (Real World Cartography)

[gorkamorka]

Digitised maps from the National and University Library of Iceland.

EDIT: English Link is in the top right corner.

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All antique maps of Iceland (older than 1900) that are in the collections of the National and University Library of Iceland and the Central Bank of Iceland have been converted to a digital format and are accessible here. A short historical description in Icelandic and English is available for most of the maps. They are based on the book Kortasaga Íslands (A history of cartography of Iceland) by Haraldur Sigurðsson.

[Ascension]

Those are cool Gorka, thanks.

[Sigurd]

This is a very slick site and they seem to be digitizing a lot of documents (not just maps) from all over the world.

http://www.wdl.org/en/


The map viewing interface is all fancy but the maps are really good and well organized. You can download them as tifs.

Its well worth a look.

Here's a selection of just maps.

http://www.wdl.org/en/search/gallery?ql=eng&ty=Maps


Sigurd