Topic awaiting preservation: Maps - Free? Digital

Heya,

maybe one of you has some good resources in this area:

I'm looking for 'decent' world and contintent maps, with nations outlined (at least the more 'prominent' ones for the western hemisphere),
preferably vectory, if not, at least easily colorable (ie. no hights, no 'shading', etc).
Preferably free, but I might have a little budget
(I want to place little 'we have a partner here' dots on the maps - so they may not be tiny, or too skewed).

Does anybody know any good resources for this kind of thing?

Thank you,
so long,

->Tyberius Prime

Here is the only possibly usable one I could find right off the bat:
http://www.gideons.ca/-media/misc/World-map.jpg

TP -

Don't know if this might be what you are looking for...

http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blindex.htm

This is probably more than what you are looking for, but I thought it looked interesting...

http://alov.org/index.html

GMT is awesome, and will run as a quick few processes on a server.
http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/
http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/doc/html/GMT_Docs/node64.html

Xrmap - much simpler, but more interactive.
http://frmas.free.fr/li_1.htm#_Xrmap_

Yay Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Maps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blank_maps
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps

NASA is so great when they stick to unstupid crap:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/BlueMarble_monthlies.html

The CIA is also good when they stick to merely gathering intelligence (vector maps...easiest to manipulate if you have Acrobat & Illustrator).
http://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/reference_maps/pdf/political_world.pdf
http://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/reference_maps/pdf/physical_world.pdf

(Edited by reisio on 10-14-2005 21:53)

Have you looked at this: http://www.gurusnetwork.com/locator/
Perty cool methinks
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Thanks for all your feedback

Dms: yeah, I love the locator ;-). Not appropriate for my task though ;-(

http://www.gideons.ca/-media/misc/World-map.jpg looks just like what I need - I don't know about the licencse yet though.

Still, thanks for all the links!
I'll have a more carefull look through them when I'm back at work.

So long,

->Tyberius Prime

Some of my best resources are long gone (I checked a few out recently) so this is a much needed return to the subject - good resources there

For completeness sake:

Do you know any good sources for free maps preferably in vector format?

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Well, you should really pick a projection you like first:
http://www.3dsoftware.com/Cartography/USGS/MapProjections/

(a more ridiculous amount [all in PDF]...though I didn't see Goode's: http://www.ilstu.edu/microcam/map_projections/ )

(Edited by reisio on 10-17-2005 10:57)