" National Geographic's redesigned online atlas gives you the world—your way.

" Locate nearly any place on Earth, and view it by population, climate, find weather, and much more with the dynamic atlas.

" Plus, browse antique maps, search and print historical country facts, or plan your next outdoor adventure with our trail maps. " ... more

" The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) is a distributed digital library with collections of georeferenced materials. ADL includes the operational library, with various nodes and collections, and the research program through which digital library architectures, gazetteer applications, educational applications, and software components are modeled, prototyped, and evaluated.
ADL provides HTML clients to access its collections and gazetteer, and provides specific information management tools, such as the Feature Type Thesaurus for classing types of geographic features, as well as downloadable software code. " more

" A world atlas of facts flags and maps including every continent, country, dependency, exotic destination, island, major city, ocean, province, state & territory on the planet! "

" Worldatlas.com one of the spin-offs from Graphic Maps, was developed (by Mr. Moen) in the spring of 1996, in an effort to aid students, teachers, travelers and parents with their geography and map questions. Today, it's one of the most popular educational sites on the web, receiving hundreds of geography questions and map requests on a daily basis. "

" Work on a new National Atlas of the United States® began in 1997. This Atlas updates a large bound collection of paper maps that was published in 1970. Like its predecessor, this edition promotes greater national geographic awareness. It delivers easy to use, map-like views of America's natural and sociocultural landscapes. Unlike the previous Atlas, this version is largely digital.
The new National Atlas includes products and services designed to stimulate children and adults to visualize and understand complex relationships between environments, places, and people. It contributes to our knowledge of the environmental, resource, demographic, economic, social, political, and historical dimensions of American life. " more

" GLOBE is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program. (...)
GLOBE is a cooperative effort of schools, led in the United States by a Federal interagency program supported by NASA, NSF and the U.S. State Department, in partnership with colleges and universities, state and local school systems, and non-government organizations. Internationally, GLOBE is a partnership between the United States and over 100 other countries. " ... more