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African Maps

Africa Data Dissemination Service

The African Data Dissemination Service (ADDS) provides internet access to the data collected for the FEWS project. The U.S. Agency for International Development, Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) project lowers the "incidence of drought-induced famine by providing to decision makers, timely and accurate information regarding potential famine conditions." Has digital maps for many countries showing administrative boundaries, roads, climate, land use, elevation, hydrology, railroads, spatial analysis (population clusters), vegetation (Chad only). Has maps of rainfall estimates and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) maps, agricultural production statistics (used with AGMAN), rainfall data using RAINMAN, prices using PRICEMAN. [KF] http://edcintl.cr.usgs.gov/adds/adds.html or http://www.fews.net/current/imagery/

Africa Data Sampler (ADS) - World Resources Institute

The World Resources Institute sells this CD-ROM which contains "a unique set of internationally comparable digital maps at a scale of 1:1 million for every country in Africa. Based on the Digital Chart of the World, the Africa Data Sampler includes data on protected areas, forests, mangroves, and wetlands, as well as drainage, topography, infrastructure, and sub-national administrative boundaries with corresponding population estimates for the entire continent. The digital format allows users with the appropriate software (ArcView 1 for Windows) to view, query, print, and distribute maps." The cd-rom is in the Stanford Earth Science Library and other U.S. libraries. http://www.wri.org/geo-afri.html

Africa Institute (Pretoria, South Africa)

This research institute sells an African continent map and an African fact sheet poster for U.S. $30.00. Select the Publications Catalogue. http://www.ai.org.za/html/publications.html

Africa Interactive Maps

"...educational CD-ROM software, designed to enhance the learning and teaching of basic information on Africa." "...contains more than 700 maps, photos, data tables, and study question pages." There are reviews by users. Created by W. Bediako Lamousé-Smith (Dept. of Africana Studies) & Joseph School (Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems) Univ. of Maryland. http://www.africamaps.com

Africa Policy Information Center - Africa Regions Map

Map, in Adobe PDF, of Africa's regions, bar graphs illustrating population, economy, trade, chart of African regional organizations. APIC is in Washington, D.C. [KF] http://www.africapolicy.org/

Afriterra

Has a selection of historic African maps online. No descriptions are provided. Maintained by Gerald J. Rizzo, St. Petersburg, Florida. [KF] http://www.afriterra.org/

Afryqah

Page for a cd-rom, created by Pierre L. Sales, of "2,400 hard-copy pages including 550 maps on a single CD/ROM disk configured to both Mac and IBM." Includes an Introduction entitled "Tracing Africa's Setting in the World from Ancient to Modern Times and Its Linkage to Country Placenames;" and a report "The 'Discovery' of Africa," on the origin of the name Africa tracing its international acceptance as a continental name. http://www.afryqah.org/

American Museum of Natural History. Congo Expedition, May 1909-November 1915 [Maps]

"In 1909,...Herbert Lang and James Chapin set sail for the Belgian Congo....By the time they sailed home five and one-half years later, they had collected tons of precious zoological and anthropological specimens..." http://diglib1.amnh.org/

Contents:
Chapin and Lang's itinerary

a central African map with layers. Select which features will appear on the map: lakes, cities, roads, railroads, forest, mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, etc., a map of Chapin and Lang's travels

historic maps reflecting the "development of European knowledge of African geography from 1562 through 1940." Reproduced with permission of the New York Public Library and the British Library.

a bibliographic essay on sources by Paula Willey, specially prepared bibliographies on Congo Conservation (314 citations), Description & Travel (1218 citations), Maps & Atlases (220 citations). [KF]

Art and Life in Africa - University of Iowa

This site introduces a related CD-ROM project and serves as an online searchable catalog of the Univ. of Iowa's Stanley Collection of African Art. The Countries Database has individual country maps showing some ethnic groups and a continent country-boundaries map. There is a Peoples Database. The Project is directed by Professor of Art, Christopher Roy. http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart

Atlas of Natural and Agronomic Resources of Niger and Benin (University of Hohenheim)

In English and French. "Adapted Farming in West Africa." Summarizes spatial data related to sustainable land use planning." Maps of Political borders, Population, Topography, Climate: Precipitation, Soils, Vegetation, Urbanisation. Has a brief history of Niger, Benin language map. ArcView files. Users have "free access to all basic data underlying the maps." Editors are K. Stahr, K. Vennemann, L. Herrmann, M. Von Oppen. The program is funded by the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" (German Research Foundation) and the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. [KF] http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/~atlas308/

Books for Africa

The Minnetonka, MN book donation program, Books for Africa, has a color map of Africa: (440K jpg). http://www.booksforafrica.org/who.html

Boston University. African Studies Center. Outreach Program

Sells a "How Big is Africa " map comparing the country sizes of Africa, China, Europe, the United States. There is a curriculum guide with the map. http://www.bu.edu/africa/outreach/

Brabys, Business Directory for Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean Islansd

The well-known business directories for South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, Seychelles, Botswana, Mauritius, Angola. Maps, product database. Brabys sells print directories, wall maps, map books. http://www.brabys.com

British Library. Lie of the Land. The Secret Life of Maps

The online exhibit includes a 1923 Gold Coast map with a hidden elephant. http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/lieland/m0-0.html

Campbell, Tony- Map History / History of Cartography

Large number of links to every topic about maps. Maintained by Tony Campbell, Map Librarian (retired), British Library, London. http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/maps/

Carte Afrique (Pty) Ltd

Sells maps of Botswana, Chobe and Okavango Delta, Harare street map, Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe and other countries. Based in Houghton (Johannesburg), South Africa. http://www.carte.co.za

Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps

Has links to vegetation/forest maps of Africa, Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the Indian Ocean. Compiled by Claire Englander of the Univ. of California-Berkeley, University & Jepson Herbaria/SMASCH Project, and Philip Hoehn from the Stanford University Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/branner/vegmaps.htm or http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/vegmaps.html

CMS (Chiltern Magazine Services Limited) - Maps

Sells an expensive Energy and Power Map of Africa, a map of the British Empire, an extremely expensive Mobile Market Atlas: Africa Middle East Atlas, various laminated political maps of Africa and selected countries ($36 each) and a Mediterranean & North West Africa Fishing Areas Map. CMS is a U.K. company supplying serial subscriptions to businesses. http://161.58.193.94/Regional_Markets___Maps.html

ComputaMaps (Cape Town)

Sells detailed digital maps and gazetteers of South Africa and Africa. Data is supplied in MapInfo Tables and ArcView Shapefiles. Its Africa Gazetteer (at $490) comes in MapInfo or ArcView GIS formats or as an Access database. http://www.computamaps.com/

Council for Geoscience (Pretoria, South Africa)

"an organization established by Act of Parliament with a responsibilty to acquire and store geoscience information on South Africa..." "the legal successor of the Geological Survey of South Africa." Has free geological-related software, the table of contents of Africa Geoscience Review, the table of contents of the now ceased Palæontological Memoirs, a searchable online library catalog, etc. Promotes Manifold software for 3D data analysis, the Manifold System Release software to create maps using GIS. Other free software: SADC Bibliographic database, SADC Map database. [KF] http://www.geoscience.org.za

Custom Maps

 

Geoweb. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Create custom maps easily. Maps are about 4 x 4 inches. In English, French, Spanish. Select a language, choose the country, select Maps and Satellite Images. Create maps showing administrative boundaries, cities, roads, rivers, railroads, population, crops, satellite images of Cold Cloud Duration and Vegetation Index, etc. http://geoweb.fao.org/

 

University Earth Science / Geology Libraries
If you are a student or faculty member, the librarians at university geology libraries can often help you create a custom map using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software called ArcView. http://www.esri.com/software/arcview/index.html

For those using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Freehand, who wish to customize their own maps, a few sources are below.
 

Map Resources
Royalty free maps. Create custom maps or buy clipart maps. Maps in gif, jpeg, Adobe Illustrator formats. Sells region maps ($20 + ), has only South Africa for country maps. Purchase individual maps or a CD-ROM set. From Cartesia Software, Lambertville NJ. http://www.mapresources.com/

 

Digital Chart of the World Data Server, Pennsylvania State University Libraries

One can download the boundaries and layers of individual countries, in Arc/INFO export format, from ESRI's Digital Chart of the World data set. The web site gives a preview of the map. Maps are also created in postscript or gif format. http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/

Digital Wisdom. Antique Maps of the World

Sells on cd-rom royalty-free historical maps. Mainly for artists wanting maps for art projects. Each cd-rom is over $200. Based in Tappahannock, Virginia. http://www.antique-map.net

Digital Wisdom. Mountain High Maps

Sells some African maps. For artists wanting editable maps. Also has flags. Based in Tappahannock, Virginia. http://www.digiwis.com/

Encyclopedia Britannica - Maps

Political and physical country maps. http://www.eb.com/

[Eritrea] Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude - Les langues en Erythrée

In French. "Panorama de la situation linguistique en Erythrée." Includes a map showing the provinces. Article from the Centre's journal, Chroniques Yéménites 2000. Simeone-Senelle is with the CNRS-LLACAN. Published by the Centre Français d'Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales de Sanaa. http://www.univ-aix.fr/cfey/chronic/simeone00.html

Ethiopia - United Nations Development Program. Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)

Administrative and thematic maps of Ethiopia. From the UNDP Addis Ababa office, hosted at the UPenn African Web site. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/eue_web/menu4596.htm

Ethiopian Mapping Authority

Official site. "...is the national mapping organization officially mandated for Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing activities in Ethiopia." Lists maps for sale and contact addresses. http://www.telecom.net.et/~ema/

Ethnologue - Language Maps

From the publication, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 13th ed. (Dallas, Tx.: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1996), edited by Barbara F. Grimes. Has a languages of Africa map, language maps for each country. http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/ethnologue.html

EWP

Sells maps for climbers (Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Kenya, Rwenzori, Mt. Elgon). Offers climbing tours. Based in the U.K. http://www.ewpnet.com/aboutEWP.htm

Exploring Africa An Exhibit of Maps and Travel Narratives from Leo Africanus to Chinua Achebe

Curated by Patrick Scott, Associate University Librarian for Special Collections. From the University of South Carolina Library, Dept. of Rare Books & Special Collections.

http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/africa/africa.htm

Florida Geographic Alliance - African Maps

"The Florida Geographic Alliance is a professional organization affiliated with the National Geographic Society...and housed at the Florida State University within the Institute of Science and Public Affairs. It is comprised of Primary, Secondary, Community College, and University Geography Educators,..."
Has in Adobe pdf format -
Continent with names, same map without names, Kenya, Kenya physical geography, Timbuktu with Mansa Musa's route, Nigeria agricultural products, and other maps.

France. Bibliotheque nationale. Voyages en Afrique - Maps
 

In French. "900 volumes de textes, 30 titres de revues, 80 cartes venant des collections imprimées de la BnF, 20 heures d'enregistrements sonores des fonds du Musée de la parole et du geste et 6500 photographies issues des fonds de la Société de géographie." Access documents by type (books, journals, maps, photographs), geographic area, era. Part of the French national library's Gallica site. http://gallica.bnf.fr/VoyagesEnAfrique/
 

Contents include:
Maps of peoples and kingdoms, colonial history, physical map, antique maps, nautical maps
A Bibliography and a Chronology

Galaxy of Maps and Books (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

Sells a reproduction of Willem Janszoon Blaeu's 1665 map of Africa (click on the orange icon to see the map). http://www.galaxymaps.com/Default.htm

GeoAtlas

Purchase royalty-free maps and flags of the world ($380). Can be custom made in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, but only the EPS format maps can be used on the web. Offers a free Southern Africa vector map in Adobe Illustrator 4 format. From Graphi-Ogre (Hendaye, France). http://www.geoatlas.com/

Geoweb. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

A nice resource. Create custom maps easily. Maps are about 4 x 4 inches. In English, French, Spanish. Select a language, choose the country, select Maps and Satellite Images. Create maps showing administrative boundaries, cities, roads, rivers, railroads, population, crops, satellite images of Cold Cloud Duration and Vegetation Index, etc. 0http://geoweb.fao.org/

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Put in the name of a place and the database provides country, longitude, latitude. From the Getty Information Institute, Los Angeles, California. http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html

Global Gazetteer

Amazing "...directory of 2,880,532 of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each town." For each town gives longitude, latitude, and altitude. Can create a simple topographic map showing the town. Maintained by Carl Rosenberg of Palo Alto, California. http://www.calle.com/world/

Global Mapping International

"a Christian inter-denominational missionary research agency. Our highest priority is serving evangelical mission ministry leaders in the developing world." Sells an Overhead Transparency Map Set, ($39.95) leader's guide, cd-rom digital map set. Other maps for purchase cover Muslim populations by country, African Muslims and Christians, Sunni and Shia Muslims, etc. Provides "custom mapping services for churches, Christian educational institutions, mission agencies, and individual missionaries." "The Global Ministry Mapping System is available only to qualified Christian non-profit ministries." http://www.gmi.org/

GSM World - Cell Phone Coverage Maps

The GSM Association is responsible for the development, deployment and evolution of the GSM cell phone standard, the standard used in Africa. Has a directory of GSM operators worldwide, with clickable maps showing GSM coverage in Africa (select Coverage). Based in Dublin, Ireland and London, UK. http://www.gsmworld.com/

Harvard University. Uses of Cartography in Atlantic History, April 1999

Part of their Atlantic History Seminar series. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/wphome.html

Hemispheres, Antique Maps and Prints (Stoddard, New Hampshire)

"specializing in fine original antiquarian maps from the 16th through 19th centuries. Our inventory is strongest in maps of Africa." Includes images and detailed descriptions, a bibliography and links to cartography sites. Owners: Richard and Penelope Betz. http://www.betzmaps.com/

Heritage Map Museum (Lititz, Pennsylvania)

Sells antiquarian maps (including African maps). Prices range from c. $100 to c. $1,000. The catalog entries include a small thumbnail image of the maps. Has links to antique map sites, including Africa.

http://www.carto.com/

Histoire de la colonisation belge du Congo - Map

In French. Includes interviews with Adam Hochschild and Jules Marchal, maps (Congo in 1900, Katanga, the districts), photographs, a bibliography, links to related sites, etc. Maintained by Patrick Cloos, based in Montreal. http://www.cobelco.org/

Historical Maps of Africa - Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, Univ. of Texas at Austin

The Univ. of Texas has historical African maps online. Some are very large; best to access only on a fast connection. They also have links to historical map sites some having maps of Africa.
African maps: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/history_africa.html

History of Cartography (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987-)

Volume 2, Book 3: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies, edited by David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis, covers traditional mapping practices of societies in Africa, the Americas, the Arctic, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Web site has the Introduction to the book which notes "For example, Thomas Bassett describes how memory boards known as lukasa, covered with beads and cowrie shells, are used to teach initiates about the origins of Luba kingship in the Kabongo region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The lukasa is read or sung to remember the journeys of a king, the location of sacred lakes, trees, spirit capitals, and migration routes." http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/907287.html

Houghton Mifflin - Education Place Outline Maps

Has a Continent Outline Map and a Political and Sahara Desert Map (3 5/8 x 4 3/8 in.) html http://www.eduplace.com/ss/ssmaps/

Indiana University (Bloomington). Geography - Map Library - Maps of Africa: A Guide to Uncataloged African Maps

Provides citations to over 1300 maps "produced by governments and agencies of Europe, Africa and North America, searchable by country, region and keyword." Includes Nigerian town maps, early 1900s maps. http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/mapafr/

Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement. Le Laboratoire de Cartographie Appliquée

In French. Sells high quality maps and atlases of Francophone Africa. Some examples are online. Has a searchable database of their extensive map (from the early 1900s + ) and publications holdings. Sells map making software, CABRAL and a GIS system, SAVANE. The IRD was formerly ORSTOM. http://www.bondy.ird.fr/carto/

International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) - Topographic Maps

Very nice maps (in high and low resolution) of the continent (political with and without names, land classification-development. potential, soils, elevation). Country maps for Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Non profits may download them for free. http://informatics.icipe.org/databank/maps.htm

Investir en zone franc

Has maps of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Guinée Bissau, Guinée Equatoriale, Mali, Niger, République Centrafricaine, Sénégal, Tchad, Togo. Also for cities - Abidjan, Bamako, Bangui, Bissau, Brazzaville, Cotonou, Dakar, Libreville, Lome, N'djamena, Niamey, Ouagadougou, Porto-novo, Yaounde. Site, in French, on the CFA france countries. http://www.izf.net/izf/Index.htm

Islam in Africa Map

Shows predominantly Muslim countries and coutnries with significant Muslim minorities. From the Perry Casteneda Library Map Collection, Univ. of Texas at Austin. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/africa_islam_87.jpg

Language Map - Linguasphere Observatory

Linguasphere Observatory is "a research network devoted to the classification of the world's languages and dialects, the study and promotion of multilingualism...." Directed by David Dalby. Includes David Dalby's Language Map of Africa and the adjacent islands. Supported by the London School of Oriental and African Studies, Departments of Geography and Africa. [KF] http://www.linguasphere.org http://www.linguasphere.org/dalby.html

 

Mapquest

Has African country maps showing national parks, maps can be emailed / printed. Includes facts about each country and a flag. http://www.mapquest.com/

MapRef

Site dedicated to listing all non printed reference material related to historical maps and cartography. A directory of videos, cd-roms, microfilm, slides. Includes the distributor and a description. Some Africa content. Maintained by Boudewijn Meijer. http://www.andropov.com/mapref

Maps.com (Santa Barbara, California)

Sells country maps, city maps of Dakar, Johannesburg, Mogadishu, a Somali clan map, etc. Has a free map club. Formerly Magellan Geographix. http://www.maps.com

Maps Relating to Islam's Historical Development

Are from the web site for the course "Introduction to Islamic Religion" of Barbara R. von Schlegell, Univ. of Pennsylvania. Examples are -

c. A.D. 1500 - http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~rs143/map6.jpg
c. A.D. 1300 - http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~rs143/map5.jpg

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~rs143/map.html

McEvedy, Colin - Penguin Atlas of African History [Atlas Historique de l'Afrique]

In French. A site with scanned maps from The Penguin Atlas of African History, by Colin McEvedy, (London, New York, Penguin Book, 1995, New Ed.) The Maps date from 2 million years ago to 1994. On the site Afrique owned by Olivier Bain, Petit-Lancy, Switzerland. [KF] http://www.afriquepluriel.ch/atlas-total.htm

Mozambique National Demining Commission - Maps

Shows altitute, relief, etc. Are very large files. On the site of the National Demining Commission, Maputo, Mozambique. http://www.tropical.co.mz/~plans/mapas.html

National Geographic Map Machine

Its Map Machine has basic information from the National Geographic Atlas of the World (1995) and maps for each country.
Country maps: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/atlas/cindex.html
Main Map Page: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/

NetStoreUSA

Sells a variety of African maps and atlasees (some plastic, some from the Institut Geographique National, political, city maps, etc.) Some may not be in stock. c. U.S. $16-22. http://www.opengroup.com/maps/m06/welcome.shtml

 

New York Times - MS Encarta

The New York Times offers African country maps from Microsoft's Encarta Encyclopedia. Included are short paragraphs on the country's history, economy, government. However to see the full articles you need to subscribe to Microsoft's "Premium Content." http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/world/index-africa.html#maps

Newberry Library. Smith Center for the History of Cartography (Chicago)

Has a section Teaching with Historic Maps including an article on teaching with maps, notes about John Bartholomew, “Africa,” from Black’s General Atlas of the World. (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1885),
Prof. Bruce Fetter's article on teaching “Graphicacy,” and Dr. A.B. Assensoh's syllabus for "African History Through Maps, 1500-1990s." http://www.newberry.org/nl/smith/teachers/assensohsyllabus.html

Omni Resources

Sells African maps ($3.50 to over $2,000) - geologic, faults, mineral deposits, oil and gas, tsetse fly distribution, East Africa grasslands, holocene, travel, political. For each country provides the flag and list of maps sold. Based in Burlington, North Carolina. http://www.omnimap.com/catalog/int/africa.htm

Online Map Creation

Creates a map if you know the longitude and latitude of the geographic entity. You can put in national boundaries, rivers and channels.  You can also save the map in Postscript (EPSF) or Adobe Illustrator format. The files download in .zip format. In English and German. http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/omc_intro.html

Peace Corps - Water in Africa

"contains over 500 photo resources, representing the best of more than 3000 images submitted by the Peace Corps Volunteers serving in Africa." Access photos by country. Each photo has descriptive captions. Has short narratives about water in African daily life, lessons plans (by grade or subject) for K-12 students, maps, technical drawings. Produced by Peace Corps Volunteers, World Wise Schools' (WWS) classroom teachers, and WWS staff members. http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/water/africa/

Peters Projection Map

The Peters Projection map illustrates that Africa is much larger in relation to other countries than the conventional Mercator maps indicate. For ex. Africa is larger than the former Soviet Union yet conventional maps seems to indicate otherwise.   http://www.webcom.com/~bright/petermap.html

Philadelphia Print Shop - African Maps (Philadelphia, PA)

Sells antique prints, maps, including African maps. Has descriptions and photographs. http://www.philaprintshop.com/africa.html

Rumsey, David - David Rumsey Collection

Over 20 antiquarian African maps from the private collection of David Rumsey. Includes detailed descriptions. Use the right hand icons to zoom in, read map descriptions, etc. Maps cover the African continent, South Africa, West Africa, North Africa, ethnographic, etc. http://www.davidrumsey.com/

Shand, Mike - Tanzania Digital National Atlas

Detailed atlas with political, population, physical, and natural environment sheets. Includes 1988 population census data, information on national parks and game reserves including year established, etc. The files can be large, 300K or more. Created by Mike Shand, Senior Cartographer, Dept. of Geography & Topographic Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland. http://mshand.geog.gla.ac.uk/ATLAS%20OF%20TANZANIA/atlas.htm

Shand, Mike - Tanzania Page

Mike Shand is a Senior Cartographer from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Has his Tanzania 2000 election map, other maps (East Africa, Tanzania, regions, population maps, Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Moshi). Shand's food security atlas of Kagera Region (with Stijn Huysman) will have 40 maps in Adobe PDF format. Also has the Tanzania coat of arms, photos (Mt. Kilimanjaro, etc.), audio file of the song, Malaika, links to related sites. [KF] http://mshand.geog.gla.ac.uk/DAR/Tanzania.htm

Stephens, David - Making Sense of Maps

Online tutorial about maps. The maps work only in MS Internet Explorer. "an overview of the history of maps and how historians use them, a breakdown of the elements of a map, tips on what questions to ask when analyzing maps, an annotated bibliography, and a guide to finding and using maps online." "David Stephens is professor of geography at Youngstown State University." http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/maps/

[Tanzania] Geological Survey of Tanzania (Mineral Resources Department, Dodoma, Tanzania)

Country information, an infrastructure map, geological map, metallogenic map, mineral sector policy, information on mining operations, licensing procedure, industry taxation, geologic environment, databases and other resources at the Mineral Resources Department, selected mining operations. [KF] http://tanzania.sgu.se/

UgandaMissions.org (Jinja, Uganda) - Maps

From the Churches of Christ, an "evangelical Christian mission working in both rural and urban contexts." Has maps (Uganda administrative, East Africa, Uganda coat of arms). [KF] http://ugandamissions.org/

United Nations. Cartographics Section

In English and French. Has detailed African maps (regional, country for most countries) in Adobe pdf format. Also has maps and background text for African peace-keeping missions (Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, Western Sahara), also in Adobe pdf format. Has maps from past peace-keeping operations (Angola and the 3 countries above). Describes the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Map Collection. http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm

United Nations. Relief Web - Africa Maps

A huge number and variety of maps. http://www.reliefweb.int/mapc/index.html#Africa

Northeast Africa and the Sudan: http://www.reliefweb.int/mapc/afr_ne/index.html
Eastern Africa and the Great Lakes Region (includes Burundi, Comores, Congo (Kinshasa), Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe): http://www.reliefweb.int/mapc/afr_east/index.html
Central Africa (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congos, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon): http://www.reliefweb.int/mapc/afr_cnt/index.html
Southern Africa: http://www.reliefweb.int/mapc/afr_sth/index.html
West Africa: http://www.reliefweb.int/mapc/afr_wst/index.html
North Africa: http://www.reliefweb.int/mapc/afr_nrth/index.html

United States. Census Bureau. HIV/AIDS Surveillance

Listing, by country, of Estimates of HIV-1 and HIV-2 Seroprevalence and continent-wide and regional African maps of HIV seroprevalence. [KF] http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/hivaidsn.html

United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Maps

Has continent and country maps - African Continent and Central Africa, Country Maps (Look under each country). http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

United States. Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division

Has 17th-19th c. maps of Africa, an 1842 map of South Africa (Cape of Good  Hope), and -

 

19th Century maps of Liberia which "includes twenty examples from the American Colonization Society (ACS), organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa. These maps show early settlements in Liberia, indigenous political subdivisions, and some of the building lots that were assigned to settlers. This on-line presentation also includes other nineteenth-century maps of Liberia: a map prepared for a book first published in the 1820's by ACS agent Jehudi Ashmun, a map showing the areas in Liberia that were ceded to the society by indigenous chiefs, and a detailed map dated 1869 by a man thought to be the black American explorer Benjamin Anderson." There is a History of Liberia Timeline.

Africa: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdPlaces01.html

Liberia: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/libhtml/libhome.html

United States Military Academy. Department of History. Map Library

Atlases produced by West Point's History Dept. The maps are the "digital versions from the atlases printed by the United States Defense Printing Agency." Under "Wars and Conflicts Since 1958" are maps of Somalia 1992-93 and the city of Mogadishu. Click on the maps for en enlargement. http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/dhistorymaps/MapsHome.htm

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Earth at Night (including Africa)

Graphic of the Earth at Night, a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP [Defense Meteorological Satellites Program] satellites. Click on the image for an enlargement. This was the November 27, 2000 Astronomy Picture of the Day. From NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. [KF] http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html

University of California, Santa Barbara. Alexandria Digital Library

Map locator and gazetteer. With the gazetteer, put in a place name and retrieve matches including variant names, longitude, latitude, and a map. Zoom in or out with the maps. http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/

University of Florida (Gainesville). Map and Imagery Library - Africa

Has U.S. C.I.A. maps of Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, US National Imagery and Mapping Agency maps of the West Africa Coasts of Southern Mauritania and Northern Senegal, Port of Dakar and Baie De Goree, Senegal; antique maps of the city and fort Cape of Good Hope, and more. http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/maps/MAPAFRICAMOD03.HTML

University of Southern Maine. Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. Africa: A Continent Revealed

A Traveling Exhibit at the Osher Map Library from January 24th to May 17th, 1998. Provides a list of maps in the exhibit. The Library and Smith Center are at the University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine. http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/exhibit4.html

University of Texas (Austin), Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - Africa Maps

The Univ. of Texas has political maps, historical maps, an Islam in Africa map, natural vegetation, population density, and individual country maps. Most are from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa.html

West Africa Historical and Contemporary Maps

Four maps showing ancient empires and contemporary maps of West Africa, Africa, Ghana; source of maps not given. On C. K. Ladzekpo's African Music and Dance web site. http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo/maps.html

World Eagle (Littleton, MA)

Sells laminated maps, a map comparing the African continent with the size of other countries, a Muslim world map, maps comparing African countries to the U.S., a cd-rom reproducible atlas, "Africa Today." "World Eagle is a....non-profit publisher of social studies materials for middle school, high school and college levels." http://www.worldeagle.com/index.htm
Phone: 1-800-854-8273
E-mail: info@worldeagle.com

Yale University Library - Antiquarian African Maps

Images of 16th-19th African maps at Yale University Library (Willem Janszoon Blaeu maps, Ethiopian maps, an 1870 Tokyo made map). See also "The Eye of the Beholder: Africa Through Western Eyes" a 1997-98 Yale exhibit of historical maps of Africa which demonstrate the changing perceptions of Africa by the West. http://www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/africa.html