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Geographical Aids
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
Turn to this gazetteer for its flexible search and ability to tell you what any of the 912,000 places in its database used to be called.
Global Gazetteer
Now with links to satellite images, this site covers a whopping 2.8 million cities, past and present, around the globe. Each entry includes population within seven kilometers, nearby places, altitude, topographic maps and local weather.
Ireland’s History in Maps
This site uses geography to trace the history of Ireland’s residents from the BC era to the 1840s.
Ordnance Survey
Find and map any place in the UK simply by entering its name, postal code or National Grid reference. The resulting maps are detailed and easy to save or print.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Unmatched for old maps, this also is an excellent place to look for current cartography. Where else, though, would you find a map of Central Europe in 1812, an automotive map of Aiken, SC, in 1919 and a 1910 “Milk Map” of San Francisco?
USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
Don’t be put off by the new home page for these government geographic tools: You still can search for nearly 2 million names of US places—inhabited or not—including old and variant names. Once you’ve found an ancestral locale, mapping options include the customizable USGS The National Map viewer, Google Maps, TopoZone and TerraFly.
World Gazetteer
Though this site doesn’t include as many places as Global Gazetteer, the accompanying info for each city is even more useful, including census population data for the past 40 years and name variants. Links make it easy to download GoogleEarth data.
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