| RMCA | Road Map Collectors' Association | Primary organization world-wide for road map collectors, roadgeeks, and highway history buffs |
| Road Maps: The American Way | Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine | On-line guide to an excellent exhibition (now ended) of road map and highway history |
| Romance of the Road | Harvard University Pusey Library |
Harvard Gazette announcement of Pusey Map Library exhibition, ended in January 2003 |
| Route 66: Cruising the American Dream | Michael Agger Yale University |
Classic (1995) website produced as part of a senior thesis in American Studies. |
| Raging for Roadmaps | Tips of the Trade Antiques Roadshow (PBS) |
Brief overview of roadmaps as presented in the 2002 season. |
| Jon Roma's Road Maps | Lavishly illustrated road map site | Primary focus on oil company road maps, both from America and abroad |
| Petrol Maps | Ian Byrne's European Road Maps | Maps, games, and map history on this British site. Searchable! |
| US 112: A Michigan Journey | Under construction? | Embryonic textual pages about the road less traveled between Chicago and Detroit. |
| Travelling Michigan and Gassing Up Before Self-Serve | Gary Flinn's March 20, 2004 column | More Michigan road-related info on Water Winter Wonderland site. Features information on Leonard, Cavalier, and Speedway 79 brands, plus a spiffy map cover. |
| Musings of Concrete, Asphalt, and Steel | Russell's Comcast personal website | Informal highway history with many cool photographs. |
| 20th Century Maps | Noel Levy | Noel's online store features some terrific oil company maps from the century gone by. Classy web site. |
| Billboards of the Past | A wonderful collection of totally impractical advertising collectibles for sale--billboard posters from the '50s and '60s. Several of the boards refer to the oil companies' concurrent map offerings. | |
| Minnesota Motoring Memories | www.solomonson.net | Craig has an excellent display of Minnesota road map covers, and a great selection of maps. |
| Map Empire | mapempire.com | Newer resource, invaluable to travelers, historians, and map collectors. |
| Official Road Maps of the United States | Mark D. O'Neil | Mark's site now includes his eBay commerce, but the site is still an excellent resource about official state and provincial maps. |
| John Margolies' web site | John Margolies | Author of multiple books about roadside architecture and American travel, site contains many excellent scans of tourist brochures, including some map covers. |
| Douglas A. Yorke, Jr., John Margolies, and Eric Baker (1996) | Hitting the Road: The Art of the American Road Map | San Francisco: Chronicle Books |
| John Margolies (1993) | Pump and Circumstance: The Glory Days of the Gas Station | Boston: Bulfinch Press imprint of Little, Brown and Company |
| Miles Harvey (2000) | Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime | New York: Random House |
| Alice and John W. Ridge (2000) | Introducing the Yellowstone Trail: A Good Road from Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound, 1912-1930 | Altoona (WI): Yellowstone Trail Publishers |
| Jim Lilliefors (1993) | Highway 50: Ain't That America | Golden (CO): Fulcrum Publishing |
| Bob Moore (2004) | Route 66: Spirit of the Mother Road | Flagstaff (AZ): Northland Publishing |
| Pete Davies (2002) | American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age | New York: Henry Holt |
| Lucinda Lewis (2003) | Roadside America: 365 Days | Boston (MA): Harry N. Lewis, Publishers |
| John A. Jakle & Keith A. Sculle (1994) |
The Gas Station in America | Baltimore (MD): Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Dale Peterson (1999) | Storyville, USA | Athens (GA): University of Georgia Press |
| Arthur Krim (2005) | Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway | Santa Fe: Center for American Places Distributed by the University of Chicago Press |
| Dave Leach's ongoing column | in "Check the Oil" Magazine | ISSN: 1042-7341 |
| RMCA | "The Legend" quarterly newsletter | available to group members |
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Last updated 27 May 2006
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