National Geographic Society maps now online

From "Tooting our own horn," on the Maps.com blog:

When you tell someone that you work in the map industry you find out that a lot of people love maps. Yes, maps can be very practical, butt hey also act as a time machine, taking people back to a favorite vacation or long-ago road trip or another country or time. A great example of maps transcending utilitarian needs are the the folded map supplements found in National Geographic Magazine since the 1890's. Each issue contained a contemporary map or thematic map or historical map and each one displayed qualities that transportedt he viewer.

Last year the online commerce and digital mapping expertise of Maps.com was put to use working with the great people at National Geographic Maps in Evergreen, Colorado to bring their storied magazine map supplements archive to life in a whole new way and NGMapCollection.com was born. Maps.com used high-resolution scans of the original folded map supplements to produce never-before-available large format wall maps and "zoom-able" online imagery that lets you see up close the detail of these cartographic treasures.