Atlases & Maps

Atlapedia Online
http://www.atlapedia.com/
Facts and data on geography, climate, people, religion, language, history, and economy on every country in the world.

Weather
http://www.weather.com/
Forecasts for over 1600 cities worldwide plus extensive weather-related news stories, temperature, satellite, and radar maps.

Getty. The Thesaurus of Geographic Names
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
Contains nearly 1 million place names representing approximately 900,000 places. The thesaurus is composed of names and other information contributed by several Getty projects.

Historical and Cultural Atlases
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas/
Interactive Atlas and maps related to European and North American history.

Historical Atlases of the 20th Century
http://users.erols.com/
Selection of partly interactive historical maps of the 20th century displaying topics like systems of government, agricultural workforce, cities, wars, USA in 1910, colonial Africa, the cold war, Europe in 1935 etc.

How far is it 
http://www.indo.com/distance/
Calculates the distance in miles between two places. The database contains almost every town & city in the USA, plus major cities throughout the world.

Map and references 
http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html
Guide to some of the map and reference resources available via the World Wide Web.

Map Machine
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/
The National Geographic Society's map and geographical information site contains maps, profiles, and facts about the countries of the world and the U. S. states.

MapQuest
http://www.mapquest.com/
An interactive atlas of the United States. Zoom in to anywhere from the continental level to rural back roads. 

TerraServer
http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/
An impressive database of aerial and satellite imagery of famous places.