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Natura 2000 is an ecological network of protected areas, set up to ensure the survival of Europe's most valuable species and habitats. Natura 2000 is based on the 1979 Birds Directive and the 1992 Habitats Directive. The green infrastructure it provides safeguards numerous ecosystem services and ensures that Europe's natural systems remain healthy and resilient.

Designated protected zones are shown for most countries in Western Europe with the exception of: the UK, Switzerland, Austria and Norway. Users can zoom and pan around the map then select the area they are interested and return some statistics on the ecology of the selected designation.

Nature on the Map is Natural England's interactive map site. The web site provides a range of maps for users including Nature Reserves, Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Biodiversity Action Plan Priority Habitats and Geological Sites maps. Users can also search for places and sights to see using the postcode search feature.

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NAVTEQ Map24 is a free online mapping service, providing street level maps and driving directions for many parts of the world including the UK, Europe, North America and parts of Asia.

The service is powered by a company-owned technology called MapTP which offers features like a 3-D route flight and complete interactivity with each map.

The Noise Mapping England project is the first stage in the development of a National Ambient Noise Strategy for England. The project aims to establish the environmental noise climate across England. Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) has now launched the London Road Traffic Noise Map, which is fundamental to the Noise Mapping England project.

For more information about the DEFRA project and to see the maps generated for 23 urban areas in England, please visit the Noise Mapping of England project pages.

The North American Environmental Atlas is an online atlas of Environmental data for the USA and Canada. It has been put together by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation and allows visitors to view and download a number datasets including:

• Terrestrial Ecosystems
  
  
  
  • Land Cover
    
  • Forests
    
  • Conservation areas
    
  • Eco-regions
    
  • Wetlands
    
  
  
• Marine Ecosystems
  
  
  
  • Eco-regions
    
  • Protected Areas
    
  
  
• Pollution and Waste
  
  
  
  • Pollutant Releases
    
  • Emissions data
    
  
  
• Human Influences
  
  
  
  • Anthropogenic Biomes
    
  • Human Influence (terrestrial/marine)
    
  • Irrigation
    
  • Light pollution
    
  • Renewable energy
    
  
  
• Climate
  
  
  
  • Precipitation
    
  • Temperature
    
  
  

Users can pick basemaps or relief shading to enhance the online map and then share it with others through a WMS URL. There really is a huge amount of data in the Environmental Atlas and it is well worth an explore.

Provides online access to a digital historical map archive of Britain which is jointly owned by Landmark and Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency. The maps available for free viewing from this web site have been extracted from Ordnance Survey (OS) County Series 1:10,560 scale First Edition maps which are held by Landmark for the whole of Great Britain. Later editions and other scales of mapping are also available from Landmark. Map extracts can be purchased as Decorative Maps direct from this web site.

It is free to browse and view the maps, but they can also be purchased.

Old Maps Online is an interactive search portal which allows users to hunt down historic maps of the UK. At launch, the portal covers five collections, and a bit over 60,000 maps:

• A Vision of Britain through Time
  
• British Library
  
• David Rumsey Collection
  
• Moravian Library
  
• National Library of Scotland
  

To be included, maps must have been scanned, obviously, and they must be directly accessible online without payment or passwords. There is no need for the maps to be in any particular viewer, but we need to hold the real-world coordinates of the corners; if you do not have these we can
maybe help.

Click on a thumbnail and a pop-up shows further information about the map. Click on the thumbnail in the pop-up and a separate tab should open in your browser, showing you the page for the map at the relevant library --so for example, whether you can download the image depends on the library, not on us. That is about all the portal does, but it hopefully does it very well.

The OneGeology Portal is now available for anyone to view and for OneGeology participants to register their data.

OneGeology material is freely available for non-commercial use only.

OneGeology gives non-exclusive permission to reproduce free of charge:
* OneGeology images,
* posters,
* maps

For personal, academic, educational, non-commercial research, or other non-commercial uses, subject to appropriate acknowledgement and notification.

Open Street Map is a free editable map of the whole world. It allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. Hosted by the UCL VR Centre.

National Library of Scotland's collection of over 1,900 sheets covering 62 towns (1847-1895). The most detailed maps ever surveyed by Ordnance Survey.