Links to electronic atlases (sent in by subscribers to MAPS-L)

Links to electronic atlases (sent in by subscribers to MAPS-L)

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Ken Rockwell <ken.rockwell@utah.edu> wrote:

Hello, all...

I have a faculty request for help identifying electronic versions of various national atlases. While the U.S. has its atlas online, what about other countries, esp. developing countries? In particular, has anyone compiled a central site with easy links to available e-atlases? The professor has an upcoming course on "Urban environmental geography" in which she'd like students to select a city or urban region and report on the "big 5" spheres: Geosphere, Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Anthrosphere. While many may choose a North American city, there are numerous foreign students who may prefer to tackle something "closer to home"--hence the idea of accessing national atlases that they can use.

--Ken Rockwell
Map Librarian
Marriott Library,
University of Utah

Responses:

Here is something for Greece:

http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/europe/grsymbols.htm

and perhaps for many other countries:

http://www.worldatlas.com/

Antonios.

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Michael Karabinos <mkarabin@ngs.org> wrote:

Hi Ken,
Here are the few I have found that are online. I am interested in knowing what other National Atlases people know of online

Korea:
http://atlas.ngii.go.kr/english/index.jsp

Sweden:
http://www.sna.se/e_index.html

Canada:
http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/index.html

Mexico:
http://www.igeograf.unam.mx/instituto/publicaciones/atlas_con.html#Historia

--
Michael Karabinos
National Geographic Society
Map Librarian
mkarabin@ngs.org
202-857-709

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Hello.

This is a very interesting topic to me as I am preparing for an environmental geography session. I found this site which looks relevant and useful, I think.

URBAN ENVIRONMENT PROJECT

http://www.uep.ie/outputs/index.html

The Digital Atlas illustrates key geographical aspects of urban environmental change in the Dublin city-region over the period 1990-2006. Drawing on research carried out by the project team the atlas provides a gateway to the work of the project which draws on the insights and expertise of a wide range of scientific disciplines including ecology, civil and mechanical engineering, climatology, human and physical geography and spatial planning. The work of the UEP has focussed on modelling future scenarios of urban environmental change. Such scenarios provide a key resource for enhancing the potential of evidence-based policy making in a spatial and environmental planning context.

The Digital Atlas is available as a downloadable interactive pdf

Digital Atlas COMPLETE

Introduction

Chapter 1 Population Change and Urban Expansion

Chapter 2 Greenspace and Biodiversity

Chapter 3 Car Dependency and Air Quality

Chapter 4 Transport Energy

Chapter 5 Households and Energy Consumption

Chapter 6 Catchments and Flooding

Chapter 7 Future Scenarios

References and Data sources

The Digital Atlas was edited by UEP researchers Cormac Walsh and Elizabeth McNicholas