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AccuWeather.com

World's weather authority. Access local, state, and world weather forecasts and news. Access conditions in Virginia Cities.

National Weather Service

Geographical view of weather watches and warnings. Gives access to weather summaries and forecasts. Updated often, with detailed local coverage.

Virginia State Climatology Office

Climate and weather data for Virginia. Links to other weather and climate sources as well.

Weather Channel

Find out what the weather is supposed to be anywhere in the country. Includes local, regional, and national doppler radar maps. You can also go straight to Williamsburg weather conditions and forecast.

WWW Tide and Current Predictor

Maps

Atlapedia

Provides information on every country including geography, climate, people, religion, language, history and economy. Includes physical and political maps for each country as well.

Geographic Names Information System

Database of nearly 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the U.S. Search by feature name, state, county, elevation, and by nearly 70 feature class types. Includes links to Tiger Maps. From the U.S. Geological Survey.

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) is a structured vocabulary developed primarily for the field of art history, but with the potential for wide applications in related disciplines such as archeology, history and geography. The TGN is the only available geographical resource that is both hierarchical and global in scope.

How Far Is It?

Calculates distances between thousands of U.S. and hundreds of international cities.

Mapquest

Find detailed maps of thousands of U.S. and international cities. Listings include streets, points of interest, restaurants, shopping, schools, and more.

National Atlas fo the U.S.

The National Atlas is designed to promote greater geographic awareness through the development and delivery of products that provide easy to use, map-like views of our natural and socio-cultural landscapes.

Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929

Collection of over 1,700 panoramic (non-photographic) maps of U.S. and Canadian cities from the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress.

Perry-Casta�eda Library Map Collection

Located at the University of Texas at Austin Library, a collection of over 2,000 current and historical maps from around the world arranged by geographic location. Requires impage viewer that can read jpeg and gif formats.

TerraServer

From Microsoft, aims to provide scalable satellite and aerial photography of the entire surface of the world.

U.S. Department of State Background Notes

Background notes provide information on geographic entities and international organizations and are updated periodically.

U.S. Gazetteer

Contains links to Census maps (Tiger) as well to a wide variety of 1990 and 2000 Census data. Search by city name (incorporated only) or ZIP Code.

UVA Geospatial & Statistical Data Center

Provides access to extensive collections of numeric and geospatial data files.

Yahoo's Maps and Driving Directions

Map a street address, intersection, and entire cities & states in the U.S. "Move" and "zoom" functions allow for easy refinement and modification of searches.