# I'm looking for high-quality maps. Can anyone help me, please? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 23, 2001, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-high-quality-maps-can-anyone-help-me-please/73484 "2001-07-23T00:06:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2001, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-high-quality-maps-can-anyone-help-me-please/73484/1 "2001-07-23T00:06:38Z")
Hi, I’m an avid Railroad Tycoon II player, and as such, I’m interested in creating my own maps for the game. The editor allows one to create a map from say, a black-and-white topographical chart, provided it’s detailed enough, and I’m on the lookout for a good site that provides said maps. I’m also looking for resource maps, political maps, and historical maps. The regions of the world I’m looking for are mainly centered in Europe, a few hundred kilometers east of Moscow, all to Spain, with the northern extreme north of Finland, and the southern south of Rome. Japan is also on my list of places I’d like to try to make a map of. I’ll be very appreciative if one can provide a link. ---
**Author:** ![Schwanzong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Schwanzong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schwanzong)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2001, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-high-quality-maps-can-anyone-help-me-please/73484/2 "2001-07-23T01:24:28Z")
[MapQuest](http://www.mapquest.com/) is pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-high-quality-maps-can-anyone-help-me-please/73484/3 "2001-07-23T02:14:07Z")
Here is a page with links to some of the top mapping sites listed below. [http://rpmconsulting.com/webstats.html](http://rpmconsulting.com/webstats.html) Map Quest Map Blast TerraServer Big Book US Census Bureau Autodesk: Map Guide ESRI Geography Network Lycos Maps Xerox PARC Map Server Intergraph Top [Tenlinks.com](http://Tenlinks.com) USGS Top AGI GIS Dictionary (University Of Edinburgh) Bentley Top GIS Data Depot/GeoComm Lizard Tech (Mr SID) RPM Information Network Sol Katz Metadata (BLM) MapInfo Etak Claritas MicroImages (TNT products) Roelof Oddens’s Bookmarks (Utrecht University) [About.Com](http://About.Com) GIS AI Geostats Applied Geographic Solutions CACI MapData (MapData Online) Caliper Datametrix (MPSI) Directions Magazine GDT GIS Linx GIS World Master Environmental Library (MEL) Penn State Map Room (DCW) Sagent (Qualitative Marketing Software) National Geographic MapMachine US Census Bureau etc ---
**Author:** ![Schwanzong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Schwanzong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schwanzong)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-high-quality-maps-can-anyone-help-me-please/73484/4 "2001-07-23T02:31:07Z")
I feel like my penis has just shrunk into nothingness! ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2001, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-high-quality-maps-can-anyone-help-me-please/73484/5 "2001-07-23T04:42:53Z")
Hoo boy… Thanks, **astro** ; that’ll keep me pretty busy for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-high-quality-maps-can-anyone-help-me-please/73484/6 "2001-07-23T04:48:19Z")
Oh, and **Schwanzong** , too. Thanks.