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Reference Desk
Travel, Maps and City Guides
- 1travel.com
www.1travel.com
Bargains and travel advice.
- BudgetTravel
www.budgettravel.com
A great site for travel links, which steer you to sites with information on things like transportation in Europe.
- cheapTickets Online
www.cheaptickets.com
Free access, but registration is required to login. Discount air fares and specials on air fares and hotels.
- Cityguide
cityguide.lycos.com
Includes clickable map of continents which can be gradually narrowed down to a specific area to visit such as a city. Includes categories: culture & history, entertainment, news & weather and visitor's guide.
- Excite Travel
travel.excite.com/
Includes directory with categories: Destinations, Reservations, Food and Drink, FrequentFlyer, Lodging, Special Intrest Travel, Tourist Attractions, Transportation, Travel Basics, and Travel Literature.
- Council Travel
www.counciltravel.com
- Delorme
www.delorme.com/
Includes Cyber Router, for city-to-city directions complete with time and miles required for each stage of a route and the Cyber Atlas of city maps with zoom-in to zip code locations (streets not labeled but commerical and public landmarks are).
- Fieldtrip.com
www.fieldtrip.com
Family-oriented day and weekend outings close to NYC.
- Gazetteer of the U.S.
www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
Find maps and census data through zip code, city or state.
- Lonely Planet Online
www.lonelyplanet.com
Charming and offbeat online information from the people responsible for the quirky Lonely Planet guidebooks.
- Mapquest
www.mapquest.com
Includes Tripquest for door-to-door directions and maps (street maps include minimal information), Personalized Maps highlighting points of interest (map may be saved with a URL for further editing), and the Worldwide Interactive Atlas for mapping outside the U.S.A.
- Microsoft Expedia Travel
www.expedia.com
Includes real-time flight information and interactive functions.
- New York Convention and Visitor's Bureau
www.nycvisit.com
- Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html
Contains 230,000 maps from the University of Texas, Austin.
- QuickAID
www.quickaid.com
Information about dozens of airports in the United States, and some abroad, from terminal maps to transportation options.
- Recreation.gov
www.recreation.gov
Recreation on federal lands; search for recreation areas by state, by recreational activity, by agency, or by map.
- Subway Navigator
www.subwaynavigator.com/bin/cities/english
- Travelocity.com
www.travelocity.com
- TheTrip
www.thetrip.com
Offers hotel and travel information; extensive flight assistance, including real-time flight data, flight reservations functions and airport maps.
- The Universal Currency Converter
www.xe.net/ucc
- VacationSpot
www.vacationspot.com/vs_index.htm
A source for unusual vacation properties, like a restored farmhouse in Provence or a castle in Italy. Has a special section for millennium vacations.
- The Weather Channel: Airport Delays
www.weather.com/travelwise/airports_delay.html
- Wild Adventures Online
www.wildadventures.com
Features information on safaris, backpacking vacations and mountain biking tours.
- World Travel Net
www.world-travel-net.com
- Yahoo
maps.yahoo.com/yahoo
Includes information on how to get from here to there; search retrieves both major route and street-level maps as well as door-to-door directions for locations in the U.S.; maps include zoom options and links to adjoining maps; reasonably fast download and clear layout.
- Zip2
www.zip2.com
Includes Hotels & Travel section and Sports & Recreation, etc. "Get a Map" and "Get Directions" options in upper right-hand corner are easy to miss.
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