How to Find a Map at Stony Brook

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Aerial Photographs. These include high-altitude aerial photographs of Long Island, New York City, and some other areas.

Aeronautical Charts. These are designed for air navigation, but also often contain much information about features on the ground.

Atlases. Many types of atlases including world atlases, thematic atlases, and regional atlases are located in the Map Collection and elsewhere in the library system.

City Maps. These provide individual streets and street names for towns and cities in the United States and foreign countries.

Digital Maps. The library system has a growing collection of computerized (digital) maps covering all areas of the world, with particular emphasis on New York and Long Island.

Foreign Maps in Series. These are more detailed foreign maps (often topographic maps) that cover a particular geographic area in more than one sheet.

Foreign Sheet Maps. These are miscellaneous small-scale maps of foreign countries, regions, and cities.

Gazetteers. Gazetteers are geographic dictionaries useful for locating place names.

General Reference Maps. These are small-scale maps on a single sheet usually covering a continent, country, or state.

Geological Maps. These depict different rock formations and other conditions under the surface of the earth.

Hiking Maps and Guides. These can be found in a number of locations in the map collection.

Historical Maps. These include both old maps and modern maps depicting conditions in the past.

Marine Maps. These include nautical charts and other maps depicting the oceans of the world.

New York State Maps. The Libraries have extensive holdings of maps of New York State (particularly Long Island and New York City).

Reference Books on Cartography. These include books about the history of maps, map interpretation, cartobibliographies, and map indexes.

Road Maps. The map collection includes road maps for all of the United States, most of the provinces of Canada, and many foreign coutries.

Satellite Images. These resemble very high altitude aerial photographs. They can be found in various places in the map collection.

Soil Survey Maps. These are mostly in booklet form and cover soil types in selected counties of the United States.

Topographic Maps. These are our most detailed maps covering the U.S. and much of the rest of the world.

U.S. Sheet Maps. These are miscellaneous small-scale maps of the United States, regions, individual states, and cities.

World Maps. These include both small-scale general reference maps and detailed topographic maps of many foreign countries.

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