Cartographic Reference - Gazetteers, Glosseries and Guides
Gazetteers:
If you're looking for physical copies of gazetteers of this area (SC), there is a South Carolina Atlas and Gazetteer located on the 4th floor of the R.M. Cooper Library, at the Reference Desk. This 64-page atlas contains a collection of detailed topo maps, an index of place names and map features, attractions such as campgrounds, beaches, freshwater fishing, hunting, trails, recreation areas, and more. The call number for this Atlas/Gazetteer is G1305.D 46 2006.
The Mills Atlas, entitled Mill's Atlas: Atlas of the State of South Carolina, 1825, may be found either at R.M. Cooper Library or may be viewed in Special Collections, located in the Strom Thurmond Institute, near the library. The call number for this atlas is G1305.M53 1980. Additional gazetters and atlases for South Carolina may be found by performing a Keyword Search for gazetteer or atlas in the library's online catalog, Millennium.
If you are looking for online gazetteers or atlases, you may want to click on http://www.bartleby.com/69/ for The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. The R.M. Cooper Library also owns a physical copy of this atlas, and can be located on the fourth floor in Reference, under call number E35.C65 2000.
For a World Atlas in an online edition, see The Collins World Atlas Gazetteer at http://www.xreferplus.com/entry.jsp?volid=287&source=marc.
The Historical Gazetteer of the United States is an 865-page gazetteer, including index, and can be located in the Reference section on fourth floor under call number E154.H45 2005.
Online Glossaries and Guides:
The GIS Dictionary can be found by clicking on the GIS Dictionary link, or at http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/agidict/welcome.html. This is an online dictionary of GIS terms, by the Association for Geographic Information and the Department of Geography at the University of Edinburgh.
Perry-Castaneda Library has a Glossary of Cartographic Terms on their website, at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/usgs_ref/glossary.html.
See http://www.lib.clemson.edu/GovDocs/maps/latlong.htm for how to determine Latitude-Longitude from a topographical map. If you'd like to find the latitude and longitude of an address, see http://maps.huge.info/geocoder/.
USGS has an excellent online Fact Sheet (Fact Sheet 035-1, March 2001),entitled Finding Your Way with Map and Compass. Just click on the link, or go to the USGS site at http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/factsheets/fs03501.html. Alternately, USGS has an excellent guide on Map Scales. Just click on the link.
Peter H. Dana's Map Projection Overview, The Geographer's Craft Project, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder, is also very helpful. To view another page on Map Projections, see http://www.galleryofmapprojections.com/.
For information regarding Topographic Map Symbols, see http://mac.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/symbols/moreinformation.html.
The U.S. Naval Observatory has an excellent World Time Zone Map, at http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/world_tzones.html., if you need to find a time zone.
Cool Calculators:
For the latitude and longitude of an address: http://maps.huge.info/geocoder/.
For travel distance between cities: http://www.mapcrow.info/.
For a fun Map Scale Calculator: http://www.beg.utexas.edu/GIS/tools/scale2.htm.
To find out the exact time for different countries: http://www.timeticker.com/.
To calculate flight paths (read disclaimer on page): http://gc.kls2.com/ (The Great Circle Mapper)