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Do you know some good websites for map-lovers?

I often visit strange-maps, cool-maps, makingmaps and hipkiss.org.

Do you know others?

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David Rumsey Map Collection http://www.davidrumsey.com/

Map Gallery http://www.cartotalk.com/index.php?showforum=14

Ancient World Mapping Center http://www.unc.edu/awmc/mapsforstudents.html

Huge Resource - Berkeley Map Collection
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/MapCollections.html

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the David Rumsey site has a great selection, thanks for recommending it – Ian May 11 '12 at 4:58
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http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Featured_images

http://bestofosm.org/

...well they're good for OpenStreetMap-lovers at least

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there's also the maps.openstreetmap.ie site for irish map lovers ;-) – kguest Aug 20 '10 at 16:17
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CartoTalk. It's a open forum for cartographic discussion.

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CartoTalk has a Map Gallery too - see 'Map Gallery' on Mapperz Answer. – Mapperz♦ Aug 20 '10 at 16:49
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  • OpenStreetMap (http://openstreetmap.org)

  • MapBox (http://mapbox.com/) - for creating custom maps in the cloud using OpenStreetMap and other data sources

For historic maps:

  • Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at University of Texas (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/)

  • Library of Congress map collection (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html)

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