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Africa
Maps
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- ADDS:
Africa Data Dissemination Service
(Produced by the U.S. Geological Survey's Earth Resource Observation
System Data Center for the U.S. Agency for International Development.)
Maps
and other digital data on Africa, with special focus on cropland
use in the regions of Sahel West, Southern, and the Greater
Horn of Africa.
- African
Marine Atlas (ODINAFRICA Program, International
Oceanographic Data and Information Commission, United Nations
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris, France)
This
web site --under construction--includes continental and coastline
maps--with potential for regional, country, and local areas,
various graphs, and numerical data. "The purpose of the African
Marine Atlas is to identify, collect and organize available
geospatial datasets into an atlas of environmental themes
for Africa..."
- Afriterra,
The Cartographic Free Library (Boston, Massachusetts)
The
website features information about the collection in Boston
and a small set of "Zoomifyer" online
maps. These digital images were produced in collaboration
with the Digital Imaging Group at Harvard College Library,
Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The AFRITERRA Foundation is
a non-profit Cartographic Library and Archive assembling and
preserving the original rare maps of Africa [c. 1480 A.D.--1900
A.D.] in a definitive place for education and interpretation."
- AGIS-Agricultural
Geo-Referenced Information System: South Africa
(Pretoria, South Africa)
This
site offers free data and maps of South African agriculture,
natural resources, climate, and land use--from the South African
National Dept. of Agriculture, Provincial Depts. of Agriculture,
and the Agricultural Research Council; information about various
projects; and contact information for experts.
- American
Museum of Natural History -- American Museum Congo Expedition
1909-1915: Map
Gallery (New York)
"The
maps in this gallery reflect the development of European knowledge
of African geography from 1562 through 1940. They are reproduced
with the permission of the New York Public Library and the
British Library." See also: Home
page of the web site.
- Animated
Atlas of African History, 1879-2002 (Prof. Nancy
Jacobs et al., Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island)
"...The
map displays information in several ways: color-coding of
territories reflects political changes; symbols show conflicts
as isolated events; bar graphs give demographic and economic
data, and labels show country names. Users may click on the
diamonds in the bottom center to reveal or hide these features.
Timeline controls on the bottom-right advance or reverse the
chronology. The polygonal keys expand when the mouse is placed
over them and can be dragged to any location on the map to
match colors with those on the key. For the period after 1960,
the labels also contain bar graphs showing changes in population
and per capita GDP over time."
- Atlas-Historique.Net:
Recherche
Géographique -- Afrique (Guillaume Balavoine,
Paris, France)
<<
Atlas-historique.net a pour ambition d'offrir aux internautes
francophones des repères utiles à la compréhension
de l'histoire du monde contemporain (de 1815 à nos
jours) et de la situation géopolitique du monde actuel
à travers un médium particulier, situé
entre l'image et le texte ; la cartographie.>>
- Atlas
of Natural and Agronomic Resources of Niger and Benin
(L. Herrmann et al., "Special Research Programme 308: Adapted
Farming in West Africa," University of Hohenheim, Germany)
At
this site, one can read online or download the data. There
are full text summaries, map images, and analytical reports.
See also, the French
version.
- Bibliography
for Research at Columbia on "Maps and Power in Modern African
History" (Compiled by Dr. Joseph S. Caruso,
African Studies Librarian, Columbia University)
- Boston
University Libraries -- African Studies Map Collection
(Boston, Massachusetts)
This
web page provides access to detailed lists of holdings organized
by publication date, location, and title.
- Comparative
Bantu Online Dictionary: Bantu
Maps and Mapmaker
(Department of Linguistics and the Institute of Cognitive Studies,
University of California, Berkeley)
"The
CBOLD project was started in 1994 by Larry Hyman and John
Lowe to produce in Berkeley a lexicographic database to support
and enhance the theoretical, descriptive, and historical linguistic
study of the languages in the important Bantu family."
See also, the CBOLD
Home Page (via L'Institut des Sciences de l'Homme, Lyon,
France).
- Cornell
University Geoscience Information System: Cornell
Morocco Project (Institute for the Study of Continents
and the Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York)
"The
Morocco project is a collaborative effort between Cornell
University and institutions in Morocco and Spain to improve
the understanding of the geodynamics of the western Mediterranean
(Alboran) region and the intracontinental development of the
Atlas system, using geophysical and geological methods. On
these pages you will find information about the research conducted
including abstracts and figures (and maps) from recent investigations."
See also, the larger Cornell
GIS web site which includes several pages on research
on the Middle East and North Africa, plus new
and old maps.
- Ethiopian-Eritrean
Conflict: Carta
Dimonstrative, Ministero degli Affari Esteri Colonial
(Prof. Habte Ghebre-Ab, University of Cincinnati History Forum;
via GeoCities)
An
Italian colonial map of Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, circa
1901; plus links to related web pages.
- Ethnologue
Country Index -- Africa (From Ethnologue (Online),
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc., Dallas, Texas, 1999-)
For
each country in Africa, there is a listing and description
of languages, and a map of languages.
- FAO
Country Profiles and Mapping Information System
= Profils
FAO de pays et système d'information cartographique
Select
a country = Sélectionner un pays: This "retrieval
tool" is the latest offering on the FAO website. It consists
of summarized presentations for each country around the world,
including maps and tables, with detailed information on the
environment and the economy based on FAO research.
- The
Atlas of the Gambia (Dr. Malanding Jaiteh,
Center for International Earth Science Information Network,
Columbia University)
Last
update in September 2006: A website with basic geographical
information, maps, some statistics, etc. "The Atlas of the
Gambia project is a public education project aimed at providing
authoritative data and statistics on biophysical, social,
cultural and economic dimensions of life in the Gambia."
- Historical
Maps of Ghana, West Africa, and the African Continent
(C. Ladzekpo, University of California, Berkeley)
- Index
to "Maps of Africa--A Guide to Uncataloged African Maps"
at Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana)
"The
index provides access to records with basic publishing information
and call numbers for locating the maps. While map images cannot
be viewed at this site, the maps are available for use in
the Geography Map Library, Student Building 015, on the Bloomington
campus of Indiana University.
- Indiana
University Libraries: Maps
of Africa--A Guide to African Maps Held in Geography/Map Library
(Bloomington, Indiana)
A
searchable list of map holdings at Indiana University.
- Institut
de recherche pour le développement: Laboratoire
de Cartographie Appliquée (IRD - anciennement ORSTOM,
Bondy, Ile-de-France)
- Un
site en construction. Sur ce site, on peut apprendre les
projets et les publications du laboratoire, y compris quelques
extraits
des réalisations récentes: cartes du Togo
(sur les indices de dégradation des sols) et de l'Afrique
central et de l'ouest (sur les précipitations moyennes
annuelles); et plusieurs atlases: sur les migrations ouest-africaines
et sur les pêcheries thonières tropicales,
et un atlas de la ville Sokodé du Nord-Togo; de plus,
en cours de réalisation: un atlas de l'Extrême-Nord
Cameroun.
- Sphaera:
Base de données de documents cartographiques
- Interactive
Mapping Sites:
- Internal
Displacement Monitoring Centre -- Maps of Africa Norwegian
Refugee Council. (Geneva, Switzerland)
- Investir
en Zone Franc: Cartes (IZF.Net, France)
- Library
of Congress, American Memory: American
Colonization Society Collection: Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870
(Washington, DC)
A
searchable online collection of twenty maps of Liberia from
various sources, including the American Colonization Society,
'organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West
Africa.'
- Malawi.
National Statistical Office: Atlas
of social statistics. (2002) (Zomba, Malawi)
- Mapping
Malaria Risk in Africa: Maps
of Malaria (South Africa)
Downloadable
or printable maps on malaria distribution and other health
data for Africa, with brief summaries. MARA/ARMA is an international
effort in support of the compilation, dissemination, and advance
of malaria research in Africa. For more information, see the
entire site.
- Map
Sellers on the Internet
- MISR:
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer: Gallery Images for Africa
(NASA--Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, California)
- National
Geographic. (Online): "Africa: whatever you thought, think again",
September 2005
-- Washington, DC: The National Geographic Society, 2005.
A
special issue focusing on African reports, in-depth reports,
photographs, interactive maps, and Africa
Archive of selected articles from previous issues of this
popular magazine.
- National
Geographic's Map Machine (The National Geographic
Society, Washington, DC)
This
colorful site offers an online abridged atlas. Select "Atlas
Maps" and "By Continent" to find maps on Africa.
- The
Nile River Basin -- Maps Nile Basin Water Resources
Management (The Nile Basin Initiative, Entebbe, Uganda)
- Northwestern
University Library: 16th--20th
Century Maps of Africa Government and Geographic
Information and Data Services (Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois)
"This
site features digital copies of 113 antique maps of Africa
and accompanying text dating from the mid 16th Century to
the early 20th Century. All scanned maps are authentic and
originally collected by the Melville J. Herskovits Library
of African Studies at Northwestern University."
- Other
Maps of the African Continent: Historical & Contemporary
- Les
Cartes Détaillées du Sénégal
(Au Sénégal, Dakar)
- 19th
century African political entities before the "Scramble"
(Adapted from R.O. Collins et al. (eds.) Historical
Problems of Imperial Africa. Princeton, N.J.: Markus
Wiener, 1994; Prof. Glenn Davis Stone, Department of Anthropology,
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri)
- Map
of Africa, 1999: with political boundaries and names
of countries. (From Ethnologue (Online), Summer
Institute of Linguistics, Inc. Dallas, Texas)
- Political
Boundaries of Africa, 1994 (University of Pennsylvania)
- Satellite
Image of Africa on the Globe, c.1994 (University of
Pennslyvania)
- Natural
Vegetation in Africa (Prof. Chouki El Hamel, Dept. of
History, Arizona State University)
- Pennsylvania
State University Map Library: Maps
of Africa -- Countries (University Park, Pennsylvania)
An
electronic archive of downloadable country maps (in PDF format
and some in JPG) for a selection of countries: relief,
population density, land cover, and links to the CIA maps.
See also: PSU
Map Library Home Page.
- Perry
Castañeda Library, University of Texas
- Senegal
Online: Cartographie
du Sénégal et d'Afrique (France)
Sur
ce site, on peut voir plusieurs cartes choisies des villes
et des régions du Sénégal. Voir aussi,
la page d'accueil
du site entier.
- Stanford
University Libraries: Maps
of Africa Online Humanities Digital Information
Service Luna Insight Service (Stanford, California)
"The
maps --578 images-- from the Norwich Collection of Maps of
Africa and Its Islands as well as the maps from the Antiquarian
Maps Collection relating to Africa can be viewed online."
- Statistics
South Africa: Digital
Census Atlas (2001) (Pretoria, South Africa)
A
free collection of digital maps on various indicators for
South Africa, based on data collected for the 2001 national
census.
- The
Sudan Tribune: Maps
and Datas on The Sudan (USA)
Five
maps of the Sudan in HTML and in printable versions; plus
links to basic information about the Sudan and current news
in English.
- Tanzania
Digital National Atlas, 2007 (Mike Shand, University
of Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
This
site offers detailed, colorful online maps of Tanzania, plus
Macromedia Shockwave maps.
- United
Nations Maps of Africa
- United
States Geological Survey Earthshots (USGS, Earth Resources
Observation Systems Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
- Volcanoes
in the African Region Volcano World. (Oregon
State University, Corvallis, Oregon)
An inventory list with photographs and maps.
- WHKMLA
Historical Atlas -- History of Africa (2005) (Zentrale
für Unterrichtsmedien im Internet e.V., Merzhausen, Germany)
A
collection of bright, pastel-colored maps of the continent
and individual countries since 19th century onwards (colonial
territories and post-colonial era)...based on standard historical
sources and other African map websites.
- World
Gazetteer on Africa (Stefan Helders, Köln,
Germany)
A
set of basic political boundary maps of countries, regional
divisions, cities, population figures, and a few other basic
statistical indicators.
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