Open - free to use and repurpose
Free - free to use
Affordable - available at low cost
Free North Shore - available to NSCC students and faculty
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at UT Austin contains over 250,000 maps of the world.
New York Public Library's Digital Map Division collection includes over 20,000 public domain historical maps in high resolution. The collection contains maps from the 16th to 19th century, mainly from the United States and New York.
The David Rumsey Map Collection contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from about 1550 to the present.