Understanding Cartography and Mapping Basics

• Cartographic and Geographic Reference Sites via Cornell University includes links to citation guides, conversion utilities, Copyright reference, Distance utilities, file format guides, gazeetteers and more...


• Classification of Web Maps an overview of static and dynamic web maps.


• Coordinate Systems Overview describes Coordinate Systems, Ellipsoids, and Datums as they pertain to Map Projections.


• Degrees, Minutes, Seconds and Decimal Degrees Latitude/Longitude Conversions
  
  
• ESRI Mapping Centre is about the use of ArcGIS in the graphic delivery of geographic information. Its goal is to help you make great looking maps by using the same cartographic concepts and techniques that professional cartographers use.

• Go-Geo Online Guides and Tutorials is a collection of guides and tutorials concerning geospatial information services for those in education and research.


• Interactive Album of Map Projections Pennsylvania State University and Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)


• Map Datums: An Interactive Overview (University of Waterloo)


• Map Projections Overview Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin.


• Topo 101 - Topographic Maps, The basics is a guide produced by Natural Resources Canada, intended to help users understand what topographic maps are and how to use them.


• United States Geological Survey (USGS) Map Projections is a guide intended to help users understand Map Projections and to identify which projection best suits the users' needs given a defined geographic scope.