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SEARCH BY TOPIC |
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Academic references |
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Business, investment, jobs |
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Computers, Internet |
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Education: teacher, student resources |
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Entertainment, transportation, travel |
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Government, law, official documents, statistics |
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Health, fitness,
nutrition, weight, safety |
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Interests: hobbies, lifestyles, social issues |
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Language tools |
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Locating people, organizations, places |
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Shopping: other |
| SEARCH OTHER THAN BY TOPIC |
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Country, language, audience, Internet application |
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File format |
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Search tool abilities |
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Search for places combined with search for
people / organizations / associations / interest groups |
• People
or
organizations/groups, along
with options for maps (by location,
postal codes, phone area codes) |
• Reverse lookups on some of these |
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Combines various of the below. |
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Find individual people
combined with search for organizations / associations / interest
groups |
• Phone
numbers: current, old, cell
phones, unlisted
• Email addresses: current, old
• Street addresses: current, old |
• Discussion groups
• Alumni: classmates, colleagues
• Genealogy or family groups
• Reverse lookups on some of the
above |
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Search for just
organizations / associations |
• Phone
numbers (“White pages”)
• People names and positions
• Email addresses
• Street addresses
• Types of services or products (“Yellow
pages”
organization) |
• Government representatives
• Electoral campaign contributors
• Standard Industry Code look-up,
by type of
industry
• Toll-free phone numbers
• Reverse lookups on some of the
above |
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Search for just individual people |
• Names:
current, previous: e.g.,
maiden name
• Phone numbers: current, old, cell
phones, unlisted
• Email addresses: current, old
• Street addresses: current, old
• Personal websites
• Photo or physical characteristics
• Celebrities & people in the news
• Country of residence or origin
• Native language
• Type of work |
• Interests
• Usage of computer programs
• Online Internet activity
• Internet Service Provider location
• People investigating other people
• Hometowns
• Records (public, background, other):
Census; Birth & Death Certificates;
Criminal and
civil offences; Vehicles;
Financial & Credit;
Employment;
Adoption; Patents or copyrights;
Citations (literary works)
• Reverse lookups on some of the
above |
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Search for just places: geographical maps for any
purpose, including travel, phoning, mailing, driving directions,
buying real estate, etc. |
• Maps:
topological, street, satellite,
tourist, ecological,
etc.
• Location coordinates
• Driving directions |
• University campuses
• Country or area phone dialing codes
• Postal codes
• Reverse lookups on some of the
above |
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Search for
places combined with search for
people/organizations/associations/interest groups
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Meta
and all-in-one search tools
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| Information Source |
Description |
Web Address |
| Argali |
Provides Internet search software for your computer; searches white and yellow pages,
maps, etc. |
www.argali.com |
| Freeality.com |
All-in-one search tool: Finds people, companies, organizations, groups, places |
www.freeality.com |
| Langenberg.com |
All-in-one search tool: Finds people, companies, organizations, groups, places |
www.langenberg
.com |
| Ultimate White Pages |
All-in-one search tool: Searches white and yellow pages,
maps, etc. |
www.theultimates
.com/white |
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Individual
directories & other search tools
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| Directories of search tools |
| MelissaData.com |
Provides lookup directories of many kinds |
www.melissa
data.com/Lookups |
| Individual search tools |
| 192.com |
Finds people and businesses, as well as maps, in the UK |
www.192.com |
| 1st-at-GPS-Tracking |
Finds people or vehicles using GPS tracking software |
www.1st-at-gps-tracking.com/
107-people-locator.html |
| 411 Information |
Searches for people and businesses in the white and yellow pages,
as well as maps |
www.411.info |
| AskJeeves Local Search |
Provides business search, maps, and driving directions |
local.ask.com/local |
| DexOnline |
Finds organizations or people, and gives maps or driving
directions |
www.dexonline.com |
| Directory Assistance Plus |
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www.daplus.us |
| Google Local |
Provides business search, maps, and driving directions |
local.google.com |
| Google Mobile |
Searches for businesses by location - U.S. and Canada, using
mobile devices |
mobile.google.
com/local |
| InfoSpace |
Provides a database of businesses, mapped, with directions to get
from one to the next |
www.infospace.com |
| Lycos Yellow Pages |
Provides yellow pages and various other kinds of search,
including look-ups using maps |
yellowpages.super
pages.com/yp
.basic.jsp?STYPE=S&
SRC=lycos14 |
| MSN Local Search |
Provides business search, maps, and driving directions |
search.msn.com
/local |
| Netscape White Pages |
Locates people by first name, last name, city, and state |
wp.netscape.com
/netcenter/white
pages.html |
| SBC SmartPages |
Searches for people and businesses in the white and yellow pages,
as well as maps |
www.smartpages
.com |
| Switchboard |
Provides people and business search, as well as maps and
driving directions |
www.switchboard
.com |
| Verizon SuperPages |
Provides yellow pages search, as well as maps |
www.superpages.com |
| World Pages |
Searches for people and businesses,
and provides maps |
www.worldpages.com |
| Yahoo Local |
Searches for people and businesses,
and provides maps |
local.yahoo.com |
| Yellow Canada |
Provides yellow pages search and driving directions |
www.yellow.ca |
| YP |
Does people, business, and map search |
www.yp.com |
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Meta
and all-in-one search tools
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| Information Source |
Description |
Web Address |
| Copernic |
E-mail
Addresses: on specialized sites |
Business Directories: Search for enterprises
(location, phone, website address, direction, etc.) on business
directories sites:
Search Tool Guide:
Business, investment, jobs |
| Business Directories - France: Search for enterprises
(location, phone, website address, direction, etc.) on business
directories sites in France:
Search Tool Guide:
Business, investment, jobs |
| E-People Locator |
All-in-One search: Accesses various search tools for locating people |
www.epeoplelocator.
com/noaapeople
locator |
| Kale Investigation Agency Worldwide |
Provides meta search and directory of other search tools |
www.kaleinvestigation.
com/address.html |
| Profusion |
Business; Education |
Link no longer
active, but you
can still consider
the listed search tools. |
| Wayp.com |
All-in-One search: Has international directory of online phonebooks |
www.wayp.com |
| White Pages Global |
All-in-One search: Has an international directory of online phonebooks |
www.whitepages
global.com |
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Individual
directories & other search tools
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| Search tool directories |
| Big Search Engine Index |
| Provides a search tool guide, with a "people" search branch |
www.search-engine-index.co.uk/
People_Search |
| Fav411 |
Provides a directory of search tools for locating people |
www.fav411.com |
| O'Keefe Library |
Maintains a directory of search tools to find people and
organizations |
library.sau.edu
/bestinfo/Online
/find.htm |
| Pandia People Search |
Provides a directory of various kinds of look-up sources |
www.pandia.com/people |
| Yahoo |
Provides a guide to resources for searching phone numbers
and addresses |
dir.yahoo.com/
Reference/Phone_
Numbers_and
_Addresses |
| Search for
people/organizations in general |
| 411.com |
Finds people, business listings, phone numbers, addresses, area
codes, ZIP codes and postal codes |
www.411.com |
| Addresses |
Finds people and businesses |
www.addresses.com |
| AnyWho |
Finds people and businesses |
www.anywho.com |
| BigFoot |
Finds people and businesses |
www.bigfoot.com |
| InfoBel World Listings |
Has various phone and other lookup options that vary by
country |
www.infobel.com
/World |
| IAF |
Does people and business (Yellow Pages) search |
www.iaf.net |
| Lycos |
Does people and business search |
www.whowhere.com
or www.whowhere.
lycos.com |
| Google Groups |
Provides discussion groups on various topics |
groups.google.com |
| Google University Search |
Performs university search |
www.google.com
/options/universities
.html |
| Phone Number |
Finds people, business, and address codes |
www.phonenumber
.com |
| Search Systems |
Provides a resource of search tools for business
information, corporate filings, offenders, inmates, criminal and
civil court filings, vital records, property records, unclaimed
property, professional licenses, and much more |
www.search
systems.net |
| The Globe and Mail |
Finds businesses or people in Canada |
www.theglobeand
mail.com/
yellowpages |
| WhitePages |
Does phone number lookup: by name, area code, address, etc. |
www.whitepages.com or
www.whitepages.ca for Canada |
| Yellow Pages Canada |
Finds businesses or people in Canada |
www.yellowpages
.ca/search
Business.do |
| ZoomInfo |
Provides summarized search results profiling individual
people networking |
www.zoominfo.com |
| Search for former colleagues
or classmates |
| Alumini.net |
“Find classmates online with this alumni e-mail registry,
bulletin board, reunion planner, and people finder for colleges,
universities and high schools all over the world” |
www.alumni.net |
| Classmates.com |
Finds old classmates |
www.classmates.com |
| Graduates.com |
Finds old classmates |
www.graduates.com
/default.asp?r=a1 |
| ViMart |
Find your old friends in the UK military organizations |
www.vimart.co.uk |
| Search ancestry or genealogy |
| Ancestry.com |
Does ancestry/genealogy search |
www.ancestry.com |
| Family Search |
Does ancestry/genealogy search |
www.familysearch.org |
| Find A Grave |
Finds graves of regular people and of celebrities |
www.findagrave.com |
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Meta
and all-in-one search tools
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| Information Source |
Description |
Web Address |
| Copernic |
| Business Directories: Search for enterprises
(location, phone, website address, direction, etc.) on business
directories sites:
Search Tool Guide: Business, investment, jobs |
| Business Directories - France: Search for
enterprises (location, phone, website address, direction, etc.)
on business directories sites in France:
Search Tool Guide: Business, investment, jobs |
| Profusion |
Business; Education |
Link no longer
active, but you
can still consider
the listed search tools. |
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Individual
directories & other search tools
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| AME Info |
Provides yellow pages for the Middle East |
www.ameinfo.com |
| ContractorGuide |
Finds contractors, suppliers and manufacturers |
www.contractorguide
.com |
| EuroPage |
Provides yellow pages for European countries |
www.europages.com |
| Disability resources on the Net |
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www.disability
resources.org |
| FCIC National Contact Center |
Provides U.S. Federal government phone books for members of
Congress, blue pages, Cabinet Agencies, etc. |
www.pueblo.gsa
.gov/call/
phone.htm |
| FirstGov |
Indexes same phonebooks as U.S. Federal government FCIC
Contact Center, with additional links to U.S. contacts organized
by agency and topic |
www.firstgov.com |
| Idealist |
Maintains a non-profit organizations directory |
www.disability
resources.org |
| Martindale |
Locates American lawyers |
www.martindale.com
/xp/Martindale/Lawyer
_Locator/Search_
Lawyer_Locator
/lawyer_search.xml |
| Search Systems |
Provides resources for finding business information,
corporate filings, offenders, inmates, criminal and civil court
filings, vital records, property records, unclaimed property,
professional licenses, and much more |
www.search
systems.net |
| The Non-Profit Organization File (FAQ) |
Provides links to sites of interest to non-profits |
www.nonprofit
-info.org |
| ThomasNet |
Finds businesses by type of industrial product or service |
www.thomasnet.com |
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Directories of associations |
| American Dental Association |
Locates dentists |
www.ada.org |
| Business.com |
Has index of specialized business associations within
industry sector |
www.business.com |
| Gateway to Associations |
Has gateway to over 6,500 American associations |
info.asaenet.org
/gateway/Online
AssocSlist.html |
| IPL Association Directory |
Contains Internet Public Library's hierarchical directory of associations |
www.ipl.org/
div/aon |
| Scholarly Societies Project |
Has multi-national directory of scholarly associations |
www.lib.uwaterloo
.ca/society |
| The Virtual Community of Associations |
Has searchable database of associations |
www.vcanet.org |
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Search for toll-free phone numbers |
| Canada TollFree |
Searches for toll-free numbers by company |
www.canadatoll
free.ca/Search |
| Inter800 |
Searches for toll-free numbers by company, product, service,
or toll-free number itself |
www.inter800.com |
| InternetTollFree |
Searches for toll-free numbers by company, product, service,
or other descriptor |
www.internet
tollfree.com |
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Also refer to:
Search Tool Guide:
Business, investment, jobs > Business and investment decisions. |
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Individual
directories & other search tools
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| General people search |
| Cell Phone Numbers |
Provides reverse cell phone number lookup |
www.cell-phone-numbers.com |
| FindMeMail |
Finds people using their old email addresses |
www.findmemail.
com/search.htm |
| ICQ |
Finds people by criteria such as location, occupation, past
background, organization |
www.icq.com/
whitepages/
search.php |
| InfoBel |
Finds people across the world |
www.infobel.com
/teldir |
| InfoUSA |
Gets people information for sales leads |
www.infousa.com |
| Lebanese White Pages |
Provides Lebanon's people directory |
www.leb.org |
| MSN Members Directory |
Finds participants in MSN chat and other groups |
members.msn
.com |
| Who’s Who Online |
Searches for people in the “Who’s Who” database, using one
of seven fields |
www.whoswho-online.com/
search.html |
| World Email |
Finds emails of persons using this service |
www.worldemail.
com/freemail.
htm |
| Yahoo People Search |
Helps you look up email addresses, find phone numbers, and
view other contact information |
people.yahoo
.com |
| Yahoo Members Directory |
Finds people with Yahoo accounts |
members.yahoo
.com |
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Also refer to:
Search Tool Guide: Country, language, audience, Internet
application > Discussion board applications. |
| Search for public persons
(celebrities/ persons in news/ government representatives/
offender/ etc.) |
| CelebWho |
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www.celebhoo.com |
| Google Zeitgeist |
Provides an index of the top Google searches for celebrities
and people in the news |
www.google.com
/press/zeitgeist
.html |
| House.gov |
Finds your local American House of Representatives
representative |
www.house.gov
/writerep |
| Lycos 50 |
Provides an index of the top recent searches or news for
celebrities and people in the news |
50.lycos.com |
| National Alert |
Finds “predators in your neighborhood” |
www.offender
report.com |
| People Magazine |
Provides a weekly source for celebrity and entertainment
news; subscription required |
people.aol.
com/people |
| Yahoo Buzz Index |
Provides an index of the top Yahoo searches for celebrities
and people in the news |
buzz.yahoo.com |
| Special, "detective agency"
search for individual people, usually involving access to public
records (mainly for use in the U.S.) |
| Abika |
Finds people by criteria such as psychological profile,
maiden name, phone numbers, license plate, criminal records, tax
records, DNA profiling, and many more; uses public records |
www.abika.com |
| Around |
Provides a UK people locator |
www.around.
co.uk |
| CompuTrace |
Finds missing friends or family living in the United States;
uses public records |
www.amerifind.com |
| CyberDetective |
Finds people using public records |
www.cavnar-investigations
.com
/index2.html |
| ePeopleSearch |
Finds people using public records |
www.epeople
search.net |
| Findthem.lk |
Finds information about tsunami-affected people in Sri
Lanka; maintained by the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, University of Moratuwa |
www.findthem.lk |
| Intelius |
Finds public records for people living in the U.S.; uses
public records |
find.intelius.
com/search-name.php?ReportType=1& |
| Locate People |
Does people search, including background and criminal
checks, telephone and asset searches; uses public records |
www.locate
people.com |
| MyFamily |
Searches for friends, lost loves, classmates and adoptions;
uses public records |
reunite.myfamily.com |
| National Locator Services |
Finds people using public records |
now-available.
com
/address-people-locator.html |
| National Obituary Archive |
Finds obituaries; uses public records |
www.arrange
online.com |
| Net Detective |
Provides a private investigation and people locator service;
uses public records |
www.iinfosearch.
com/services/
people_locator_
search.htm |
| NetDetective |
Provides software for people investigation; uses public
records |
www.affiliate
success.net/cgi-bin/clickthru.cgi?pid=ND&sid
=freeality |
| Net-Vestigator |
Provides software for people investigation; uses public
records |
www.net-vestigator.com |
| PeopleFinder |
Provides a private investigation and people locator service;
uses public records |
www.people-finder.com |
| People Search |
Provides software for people investigation; uses public
records |
peoplesearch.net |
| People Search |
Provides a private investigation and people locator service;
uses public records |
www.people
search.smart
hosting.com |
| Search Systems |
Provides a resource of search tools for business
information, corporate filings, offenders, inmates, criminal and
civil court filings, vital records, property records, unclaimed
property, professional licenses, and much more; uses public
records |
www.searchs
ystems.net |
| US Search |
Provides a private investigation and people locator service;
uses public records |
www.ussearch.com
/consumer/
index.jsp?isnew=true&
fc=orange&TID= |
| W3Data |
Provides software to “help you find sales prospects,
streamline operations, and improve the accuracy of customer
information” |
www.w3data.com |
| Web Detective |
Provides a private investigation and people locator service;
uses public records |
www.web-detective.com |
| Web Detective |
Searches “Public records for every state and county - source
for your FBI files and credit reports - criminal and driving
records - background checks - skip tracing - court records
birth, marriage and divorce records - adoption records and
complete family history detective and much, much more!” |
net2find.com |
Search for just places: geographical maps for any purpose,
including travel, phoning, mailing, driving directions, buying real
estate, etc.
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Meta and all-in-one search tools
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| Information Source |
Description |
Web Address |
| Freeality.com |
Provides U.S. and Canadian maps and driving directions |
www.freeality.com
/maps.htm |
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Langenberg.com - Maps, travel routes |
Provides Maps, mainly U.S. |
maps.langenberg
.com |
| Provides travel routes |
travel.langenberg
.com |
| Profusion |
Maps |
Link no longer
active, but you
can still consider
the listed search tools. |
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Individual
directories & other search tools
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SearchEngine
Watch.com |
Article: "Searching for a Sense of Place" |
searchenginewatch.com
/searchday/article.php
/3581976 |
| A9 |
Provides street maps and driving directions |
maps.a9.com |
| Ancestry Maps |
Provides historical maps |
www.ancestry.com
/search/rectype
/reference/maps |
| Big Search Engine Index |
Search tool guide, "city" search branch |
www.search-engine-index.co.uk
/City_Search |
| Canadian Atlas Online |
Provides maps and colorful presentations of Canada's geography,
culture and people |
www.canadian
geographic.ca/
atlas |
| Cornell Digital Earth |
Provides interactive maps displaying geological, geographical, and
geophysical data |
atlas.geo.cornell
.edu/webmap |
| Delorme |
Provides U.S. city maps software and database for your computer |
www.delorme.com |
| GeaBios |
Provides mapping and imaging services |
www.geabios.com |
| Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names |
Allows you to search for names, viewing the hierarchies of
names either by political entities or physical features |
www.getty.edu/research
/conducting_research
/vocabularies/tgn |
| Google |
Provides street maps and corresponding satellite images of
locations in the U.S. and Canada |
maps.google.com |
| Using the Google Earth desktop software on your computer, allows
you to zoom in on satellite views |
desktop.google.com
/download/earth |
| Map24 |
Provides Canadian maps and driving directions |
www.ca.map24.com |
| MapQuest |
Provides U.S. and Canadian driving directions |
www.mapquest.com |
| Maptech MapServer |
Provides U.S. topographical, aerial and satellite, nautical maps |
mapserver.maptech.
com/homepage
/index.cfm |
| Maps.com |
Provides driving directions online and sells maps |
www.maps.com |
| MultiMap |
Provides maps and driving directions across the world, especially
in Europe |
www.multimap.com
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| National Geographic Maps |
Provides both physical and political maps |
plasma.national
geographic.
com/mapmachine |
| Rand McNally |
Provides maps and driving directions |
www.randmcnally.com |
| Sintef |
Offers a 3D globe viewer with elevations and satellite
images |
globe.sintef.no |
| TerraFly |
Allows you to virtually fly over the entire United States |
terrafly.fiu.edu |
| TerraServer |
Provides satellite imagery and topographical maps of areas
of the earth |
terraserver.com |
| Connecting locations with
postal or phone country/area codes or with jurisdictions |
| 1ZipCodes |
Looks up U.S. zip codes |
www.1zipcodes.com |
| Americom Area Code Decoder |
Provides you with current information related to area codes, city
codes, and country codes |
decoder.ameri
com.com |
| AllPlaces |
Searches by U.S. zip code |
www.allplaces.us |
| CitySearch |
Provides area code decoder links to American cities and others
around the world |
www.citysearch.com |
| DigitalCity |
Searches by U.S. zip code |
www.digitalcity.com |
| FoneFinder |
Finds area and country codes for phoning |
www.primeris.com |
| MMIWorld |
Provides a telephone area code finder |
www.mmiworld
.com/telephone
.htm |
| NANPA/NeuStar |
Provides detailed information on telephone area codes |
www.nanpa.com
/nas/public/npa_
query_step1.do?method=reset
NpaReportModel |
| TIGER Map Service |
Provides maps from U.S. Census Bureau |
tiger.census.gov/
cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl |
| USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) |
Allows you to download maps as TIFF files |
seamless.usgs.gov |
| U.S. Gazetteer |
Provides detailed street maps of U.S. cities, by name or zip
code |
www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer |
| Maps used in
buying real estate |
SearchEngine
Watch.com |
Article: "Terrific Real Estate Search Tools" |
searchenginewatch.com
/searchday/article.php
/3579191 |
| Funda.nl |
Provides real estate listings along with maps of Dutch
properties |
www.funda.nl |
| HousingMaps |
Provides real
estate listings along with aerial and satellite imagery |
www.housingmaps.com |
| OnOneMap |
Provides real
estate listings along with aerial and satellite imagery |
ononemap.com |
| Property Analyst |
Provides real
estate listings along with aerial and satellite imagery |
www.globexplorer.com/
products/imageatlas-property-analyst.shtml |
| Yahoo Real Estate |
Provides real estate search using maps |
realestate.yahoo.com/mpoi
/maps_result.php?prop_type
=rentals&csz=60611&fullnodeid
=750007105&cl_price
=&ch_price=&cl_bth=&cl_bds= |
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