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In addition to their own collection, which includes the geography of religion and imperial history of the Middle East of Maps of War provides a selection of multimedia maps on the web, for example the crisis in Darfur, a global migration snapshot by the NY Times or a homicide map of Los Angeles.

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Historical American Maps

The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) offers an online collection of Maps and plans including a digital collection on the cartography of North America from 1500 to 1800.

Maps of São Paulo

The NEV (Núcleo de Estudos da Violência) provides a link to their collection of online maps here. These are static maps, mostly high-res jpegs, but it is an impressive and quite detailed repository of thematic maps for São Paulo, covering population statistics, crime, health, education and more, mainly from the 1991 and 2000 census.