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Cartography Resources: Commercial Mapping
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New Section: Online Mapping!
An index of interactive online mapping services

Coverage: US, worldNotable functionality: links to weather, news, satellite; Spatial data source: Etak® (a subsidiary of Sony Corporation)
MapQuest. From GeoSystems Global: Coverage: US, world; Notable functionality: point of interest markers, 1.5 million maps/day; Spatial data source: Geosystems, Navtech
Switchboard. Majority owned subsidiary of Banyan: Coverage: US; Notable functionality: mapping of Yellow Pages directory entries; Spatial data source: ?
Earth and Moon Viewer. From Fourmilab: Coverage: world, moon, solar system; Notable functionality: realtime weather, terminator, Living Earth data; Spatial data source: Living Earth, weather data
Xerox PARC Map Viewer. From Xerox PARC: Coverage: world; Notable functionality: up since June 1993; Spatial data source: CIA World Databank II; 1:2m USGS digital line graphs
Microsoft TerraServer.: Coverage: US, world; Notable functionality: multi-scale declassified Russian/US satellite imagery with interactive front-end; Spatial data sources: USGS (digital orthophotos), SPIN-2 imagery (2 meter Soviet-American)

Yahoo listing of map companies
List of International Map Trade Association (IMTA) member web sites.

IntraSearch and MapMart: Full service mapping and online ordering for aerial photography and digital mapping. Specializing in USGS products (DLGs, DEMs, DRGs, DOQs).
Spatial Innovations: Simple Server from Spatial Innovations is a Windows/NT Internet map server. Designed for easy setup and administration. Uses shape files and geo-referenced images.
ComGrafix Inc. and associated groups: Specializing in custom mapping services and GIS software development.; EasyWay Maps.; Nationwide, fully-editable, custom digital maps based on the latest GIS data, now available for use with Illustrator, Freehand and CorelDRAW on Macintosh or Windows.
ADC Maps: Street map books in the Mid-Atlantic states. A member of the Langenscheidt Publishing Group.
GIS Wizards: CADD/GIS services: Strategic & Implementation Planning; Needs Assessment; Database Design; GeoMedia, ArcView, GeoGraphics, & MicroStation customization using MDL/Visual Basic/C++; custom training.
Map Graphics Custom Mapping: We help you to communicate using maps, beautiful classy maps that read well and enhance your image. We get your message across using taste, pizzazz and decades of professional cartography experience.
SpatiaLogic Mapping, Inc.: Computer mapping and GIS from Lafayette, CA based company.
3DGeographer from Synoptech: Builds, animates and displays 3D geographic scenes.
GEO CONCEPT from ALSOFT S.A. (France).: Desktop based GIS. Available for PC and Macintosh. Includes an Internet server capability.
Ecocart International: Environmental Databases: Maps, Geography, Environment, Ecology, Vegetation, Bioclimates, Phytoclimax, Rainfalls, Monitoring Soils etc.
Eureka Cartography: Custom maps, clip art, design services, retail maps and globes.
Now What Software: Makers of the Small Blue Planet series, also the CityROM and Flashback series of products for K-12.
Hindman Automated Cartography: Hindman AC provides digital USGS 7.5 min planimetric and elevation contour data. 7.5 min DLG, DEM, and CFF data, from 1:24,000 source scale, is enhanced and provided in AutoCAD DWG and DXF formats and multiple coordinate systems.
Carta Custom Maps & Graphics: Specializing in the production of Custom Maps and Info-Graphics for Print & On-Line publications.
Geoscape International: Geoscape International specializes in multi-national and multi-cultural geo-demographic information solutions. This includes digital maps, demographic, business locations data and related consulting services for most major countries of the world.
Mapping the World by Heart: David J. Smith's website. Resources, quizzes and great links at a great domain: mapping.com.
Barry Lawrence Ruderman Old Historic Maps &: We offer a wide selection of antique maps from the 16th-19th Centuries, including world, regional, state, county, city and celestial maps, town plans, birdseye views, atlases, geographies, travel books, and reference material, plus the odd curiosity.
Tom Harrison Cartography: We publish absolutely the best six-color, shaded-relief topographic maps for hiking and mountain biking in Parks, Forests, and Wilderness Areas in California.
Mapping Technologies International, Inc. (MTI): We specialize in bringing interactive maps to the Internet. For development we use ArcView IMS and MapObjectsIMS. We can also provide desktop GIS application development and training in ArcView.
EDgeTech America, Inc.: An ESRI Business Partner offering high-quality GIS products and services to private and governmental organizations.
Map Graphics: High-quality custom mapmaking; specializing in attractive but fast-loading maps for websites; also experts in shaded relief.
ADDE: Software publisher of Decisionnel Cartes&Bases and Geomarketing en Ville, we are also the French distributor of MapInfo Products.
Equator Graphics: A custom mapmaking shop specializing in expert design and production of publication-quality maps. We provide mapmaking services for a wide variety of businesses and government agencies.
HarperCollins Cartographic: Home of Bartholemew, Times Atlas, Nicholson, and Collins, Map & Atlas Publishers, Contract Mapping Specialists, and Geographic Data Providers.
3D Atlas: The 3D Atlas 98 interactive CD-ROM atlas website, with world news, research links, free downloads and Geographic Glossary.
TOPO 3D: Three dimensional vector-based map software. Uses USGS DLG and DEM data.
Larson Systems, LLC: Agricultural technology, including the DataVision Mapping Service (precision soil and crop mapping).
Geo Concept from Alsoft S.A.: A multi-platform GIS for display and analysis of spatial data. Includes ability to deliver maps via the web (Internet map server).
GeoHistory, Inc.: Historical database and interactive atlas software of European and Asian history.
Richard Nicholson of Chester antique maps: Antique maps and prints of the UK and the world. Sample selection online.
Imsat SA: A Swiss company which processes, publishes and markets satellite images. These are full-color map-like images.
C-Map USA: Marine electronic charting systems and cartography. Also USGS-based inland coverages. HQ in Italy.
Cartographics Inc.: Custom mapping and graphic design services. Minneapolis, MN.
Jasper Graphics: A computer drafting service that specializes in "Geo-Graphics": CAD mapping, Graphic Maps, and Web-Site Maps
NovoPrint: NovoPrint USA is a publisher of community maps for chambers of commerce, visitors bureaus, industrial development corporations and individual businesses.
Postaprint: Antiquarian atlases, books, maps available for sale. Searchable site, catalog available. Bucks, UK.
Sentinel USA: Provides utilities and government agencies with digital mapping, field inventory, and digital conversion services.
Terra Data: Makers and distributors of GeoCart, a MacOS based projections package, with over 150 projections, multiple databases in vector and raster format, ability to export animated files, perform calculations, etc.
Urban Information System: Civitas GIS software, including TAS, an image manipulation suite of tools for Arc/View image and CAD theme handling.
Oficina Tecnica Geosoft: Digital mapping, orthophoto, & digital photogrammetry for the GIS industry. Offices located in Caracas, Venezuela.
MultiGIS: Offers digitalization services of cartography and creation of DEMS and 3D photorealistic views of the terrain. On-screen Map Digitization program: GENDEM 3.0. to digitize directly in your computer screen maps and aerial photographs.
The Yellow Room: Antique world globes, maps and scientific instruments for sale.
Avenza Software: Avenza's MAPublisher is a suite of GIS-like tools for design programs such as Freehand or Illustrator (Win95/NT & MacOS).
STG Geospatial Information Systems: GIS, GPS, Remote Sensing, AM/FM for Utilities, Data Conversion and Digital Cartography (Carbondale, PA).
Woolwine-Moen Group/Graphic Maps: Cartographic images for web and print, custom maps, and a developing World Atlas.
Map Link: Map importer, distributor and dealer in contemporary maps. Includes searchable database of 100,000 maps.
Terragraphics: 3D perspective landscape maps and illustrations. Produced for print, video, electronic mediums, and the World Wide Web.
Magellan Geographix: Digital maps and custom cartography.
Geotech Computer Systems: Provides spatial database management & GIS products to the earth resources (eg., oil and gas) industry.
Lonepine Cartography: Specializes in maps for publishers, corporations, and environmental organizations. They are "dedicated to producing maps that expand and challenge conventional cartographic design. Continuing the tradition of cartography as an artistic enterprise, Lonepine offers limited edition prints and general edition posters."
GeoImage Technologies: Provides a wide range of geospatial services specializing in the preservation of satellite imagery archives.
The Living Earth, Inc.: The goal of The Living Earth®, Inc. is to produce and manage presentation-quality satellite imagery for commercial and educational markets on a global scale.
i3 (information integration and imaging): Specializes in providing satellite imagery, digital ortho - photographic products, image enhancement services, and application expertise.
IMT Associates: Data and document conversion for GIS and mapping.
Steven Gordon Cartography (Huntsville, AL).: Combines artistic images with geographic accuracy to produce visually distinctive relief, city, transit, accessibility, geologic, engineering, and tourism maps. With 20 years of experience.
Paulus Swaen: Internet Auctions of Fine, Rare Maps and Atlases of all parts of the world.
SIGSA(Sistemas de Información Geográfica, S.A. de C.V.): A private mapping company in Mexico, & distributors for ESRI products. "A lo largo de su existencia, SIGSA se ha especializado en apoyar la creación de sistemas de información geográfica regionales, estatales, catastrales y municipales, habiendo realizado exitosos proyectos en distintas partes del mundo."
Zia Design Group/Zia Maps: Landform images on CD-ROM, also maps and posters.
Cartographic Arts: Rare and antique maps, atlases and books for sale. Petersburg, Va.
LSC2+1: Une firme qui développe et distribue des logiciels conçus pour faciliter le travail des cartographes, autant professionnels qu'amateurs, dans leurs projets. Makers of the ACE map editing software.
Rugoma digital map company (Spain).: Digital cartographic design and production.
TOPO! Interactive Maps: USGS topographic maps that can be browsed, searched and printed from a single convenient CD-ROM.
Williams & Heintz: Map makers and printers since 1921.
Raven Maps: Beautiful wall maps of the United States and World.
Rudolf Lietz, Inc./Gallery of Prints: Antique maps and prints for sale.
Cartographic Solutions: Full color mapping, business geographics, publishing and AutoCAD Production
Cartographic Innovations: Digital map data for GIS. Includes vector contour and digital elevation models (DEMs) for US and international coverages. Some sample data available for Colorado.
Laser-Scan: This UK company now has over 25 years of GIS technology experience, developing and producing data capture, spatial analysis and digital mapping products. See particularly their LAMPS2 mapping product.
Cartesia Map Art: A wide selection of maps for use in Abobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and GIF format for use in web sites.
Map Tools from bitspersecond Co.: A suite of software components for developing digital mapping applications (Windows only!).
Hammond Map company.
James W. Sewall Co.: Established in 1880, provides comprehensive mapping and data management services to corporate and governmental clients.
Big Ten Inc: Produces gold maps for treasure hunting, gold panning, prospecting and mining.
The Four One Co. Ltd. of Ontario. Online catalog of maps and atlases.
The Gold Bug: A map dealer specializing in historical maps. Alamo California.
Imagenet: A global visual indexing system providing access to a broad range of public and commercial geospatial data products. Special offer for AAG members!
TreasureMapper
Blue Marble has "GeoApplication" and "GeoDevelopment" tools. For PC only!
Intergraph Online
ESRI: ARC/INFO and ArcView, Internet Map Server for GIS with MapObjects.; Atlas GIS from ESRI; ESRI Canada. Official Canadian Distributor of ESRI products such as pcTIN and ArcForest.
DeLorme Mapping (Freeport, Me.): Their maps in the news. Frequently updated.
Hybrid Designs: A professional mapping company experienced in color and black & white map design for print as well as for animated and interactive applications. (Cambridge, Ma.)
GeoSystems and associated groups: "The leading supplier of geographic information products and services to the information publishing industry." Provides consumer and business cartographic services/products in print and multimedia. Lancaster, Pa.; Interarts Fine Map Products; Quality map products including wall maps, axonometric city plan posters, map jackets & caps, antique reproduction maps, atlases and puzzles.; MapQuest; An interactive atlas, trip planner and personalized maps via the web.
Digital Wisdom make Mountain High maps.
Arwyn Mapping Company (Wheatridge, Co.)
MapInfo for Windows and the Macintosh.
ER Mapper.
Thomas Bros. Maps (Irvine, Ca.)
Heritage Map Museum sales of historical maps (Lititz, Pa.)
GEOname, a CD-ROM based gazeteer of place names. For the PC only!
Golden Software (Golden, Co.).
Sure!MAPS RASTER: From Horizons Technology, Inc. (Raster based map clip art.)
Travel Graphics International, a map and information center based in Minneapolis.
Robert Ross & Co. Maps, views, cartographic Reference and pre-1900 Atlases.
Caliper Corporation sells Maptitude, GIS+ and TransCAD.
The BG-Map Botanical Garden Mapping System.
Cartographic Services of Viamar (Vermont).
Klynas Engineering Co: Has a computer road mapping system, with real-time vehicle tracking capability.
ESR, a map company in the UK.
Mapping Sciences Institute, Australia: A non-profit company (publishers of Cartography Journal (Aus.).
Cartographics, a Dutch cartography company.
TT Designs (marine charts, GPS).