Useful Maps And Tools

• Thematical Maps
• Historical Maps
• Maps of Poland
• Map Making Apps and Tools
• Software Tips And Articles

Places With Maps And More

• Neocities Sites With Some Maps
• Geography Games
• Fictional States/Cities
• Maps Of Virtual Worlds In Games
• Articles About Various Topics
• Personal Sites / Portfolios

Buttons and Webrings

• Buttons
• My Buttons
• Webrings

Useful Maps And Tools

Thematical Maps

• CityPopulation - with my favourite world map of agglomerations
• Metropolitan World Atlas a book with a lot of maps and data about various large cities
• True Size Of - interactive map that shows the true sizes of countries on web mercator projection
• OpenRailwayMap - in most areas max speeds of the track data is available, that way I know how fast trains can go through my nearby station without stopping
• UrbanRail.net - all the public rail transit of the world
• Electricity Map - emissions of energy producers around the world
• Sovereign Limits - site with maps of maritime borders
• Air Pollution in World: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map - with thousands of air pollution stations on one map
• Visual Capitalist - pretty good visual maps with stats and such
• World Radio Map - I used it to find music that is not in English, useful to some music detours, there are many of this kind of websites, that's the one that works
• FlightRadar24 - staple site for all aviation geeks, the patterns on the map that the planes create are interesting too!
• The Music Map - a map of the most recently popular song by country
• Interactive tool to translating any word into all languages of Europe

Maps of Poland

• BazaKolejowa.pl - maps of all functional and historic railways in Poland
• Map of Polish expressways under construction - the expressways network grows in Poland rapidly, that's a regularly updated map
• Edu-Lokacja - the map of all schools in Poland based on their academic scores
• Maps of Zamość - link to the encyclopaedia about the city

Historical Maps

• Arcanum Maps - mostly Europe
• OmniAtlas - maps of continents on timeline
• Map Warper - with plenty of maps from America as well
• Vlasenko Maps Old military maps of Poland, Ukraine and Russia, lot of historical data, but the UI is not that convenient tho

Map Making Apps And Tools

• MapChart - easiest way to color some countries
• PixelMap Amcharts - mapchart but with slightly different style
• Map To Globe - quickest way to put some equirectangular world map on a globe and make screenshots
• Free Map Tools - a bunch of easy-to-use map measuring tools
• Convert image to Leaflet.js - with distance measuring
• Metro Map Maker - free tool to draw public transit networks with tons of user made examples

Software Tips And Articles

• Have I Been Pwned? - free service that checks whether there was a data breach with your e-mail address
• What are tracking cookies? - nice explanation of what the cookies in your browser do
• Zonelets - a free blogging engine made of a bunch of html/css/js files that can be uploaded on every server like Neocities. I don't personally use it because I want to create my own unique layout, but I still update all links and menus manually on every page which gets annoying as the site grows in content. Zonelets apparently helps automate this so I got to check it out someday
• How I experience web today - fun, but not so fun showcase of an average experience of browsing any major news or commercial websites in European Union after the infamous cookies policy was introduced. The link directly stolen from doqmeat.com website, thanks, I hate it, it's too real!
• Jennifer DeWalt blog - with 180 coding excercises made everyday
• Worldbuilding resources - forum with a ton of resources for all kinds of worldbuilding
• Tonsky blog about programming and UI design - with really interesting articles that I found multiple times on various small websites. My favourite article is about checkboxes and radio buttons, but I also reccomend this one about Javascipt bloat on popular websites
• Alex Riviere's Blog - tech blog by a web developer from Atlanta with funny party background
• SlowRoads.io - slow driving game on an infinitely generated road and the link to the article about how it was done
• European Alternatives - list of Europe-based services that can be used alternatively to the American big tech monopolies
• PageSpeed - check if your website follows the best practices to load fast on every devices, this thing apparently doesn't like good old PNGs, JPEGs and GIFs but other than that, it's pretty insightful

Places With Maps And More

Neocities Sites With Some Maps

• Þe Satyrs’ Foreſt ’t Satyrwoud - what's up with those weird letters? You gotta find out, a website with one of its kind atmosphere! Also includes stunningly detailed maps, both fictional and real.
• Maldivian Entertainment - webpage with places of interest in Maldives with location on maps
• Lovely Cornwall - I like small travel websites
• Migration Map - simple maps of migration of people in prehistory
• Maps-and-Tables.neocities.org - some alt-his maps and political tables
• I-Land - not necessary a map but the artwork of that world is so cozy and it's so many places to explore there, yet another neocities gem
• Spaghetti Junciton - maps of public transit that look like mom's spaghetti
• Dransik Map - that's kind of a fictional map that I wish I could make long time ago
• Lara Williams - neocities page of geoscientist in training, I'm just saving the page here if some new maps will show up
• Portolanero - site about underresearched maps called 'portolans' from medieval times that were more accurate tham Ptolemy's maps rediscovered much later.
• Distances between world cities - no maps, but a list of cities and the distances to the other nearest places
• Maps of dioceses - catholic regions maps
• Averylychee website - with a tiny guide on how to make fantasy maps
• Scanned Universe website - personal site with some pages about maps and their history
• Tankpit maps - nice pixel maps from some game
• Mistadrop page - with remaked old maps of malls
• Maps of Guatemala - on some random neocities website
• Kyle Sparek's website - portfolio of maps made with GIS
• Spencebridg neocities website - collection of maps of Argentina
• The Outline - the neocities webiste with many interesting stuff waiting to be read, the link directs to the page about the maps of the global impact of humanity
• Cuneiform neocities website - interactive map of the Hittite World, present day Türkiye and Levant region

Geography Games

• Jetpunk - mostly text based games with the most popular of them: Countries of the World Quiz
• My quizes on Jetpunk - can you name all regional capitals of Poland back in 1975 when there was 49 voivodeships? and all tram systems in Poland, including defunct ones!?
• PurposeGames - more point and click games
• My games on PurposeGames - I've made some simple geography games about less known cities in the world, check them out, or make better games by yourself!
• CityQuiz.io - how many cities in the world do you remember?
• HugeQuiz.com - fun site with various quizes including very specific place finding games on google maps, unfortunately available for free only at the first 3 days of the month

Fictional States/Cities

• NationStates - create your nation and choose your laws on issues, after a while most people either get bored or tend to engage in the life of the region in which your nation is participating, mostly on discord. That's the place where my idea of Volican States was born
• Not-EcoPaw's carrd.co page - impressive real and fictional transit maps made by a fellow mapmaker from discord RPs and public transit madlad: Not-EcoPaw!
• OpenGeofiction - that's the closest thing that exists to my vision of Lankarta web app
• Achia Geofiction - website of a mapmaker that I found on Youtube channel, collection of hand-drawn fictional maps of metropolitan areas and more. It showed me that you can always find someone on the internet with the same kind of hobby, even the rarest ones!
• StadtKreation - one of the best ficitonal city plans that I've seen
• Norscand Geofiction Maps - goldmine of professional maps of fictional contemporary places
• Imaginary country Nosika - one of the site linked in Norscand, French language
• Imaginary country Bergonia - another link from Norscand, complete site of a fictional country of Bergonia
• Geopoeia.net - wiki with fictional states, sometimes with maps
• Aveyond - fansite of a RPG Maker games from Aveyond Studio, the site features some tiny game maps
• The Outline - a good place, the fake town where everybody knows your name fictional map

Maps Of Virtual Worlds In Games

• Map of Crazy Taxi game 1999 version game guide with advanced tips
• ETS2 and ATS Online Map - maps of Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator
• Map of Lazy Town - from that silly show

Articles About Various Topics

• High Speed at High Speed - Tianjin West Station in China - a long article that starts with impressive railway project in China built in record time and ends with ridiculous one in the UK: vital high speed link from London to Birmingham up to Northern England that is stuck in the endless political gridlock and delays - the beauty of "managed decline".
• Article about Rockall Island - a tiny rock in the middle of the sea between Iceland and Ireland
• Visual Capitalist website - biggest trade partner of each country 1960-2020

Personal Sites / Portfolios

• neo.stavros.io - page with some fun software ideas, I don't even remember how I got there, probably thanks to Neocities, but I love the idea of 'Strofara' and if you don't know what it is, and you like discovering non-english memes like I do, check that out!
• TG Music - neocities page with tons of projects related to guitars, games and arduino!
• Creepingnet's World - content rich and nicely animated website about computers and guitars with a ton of detailed articles
• Dare Obasanjo's weblog - some old blog with a ton of articles about technology and stuff, the link is here lest I lost it
• Internet Based Ghosts - some website with niche music that I don't want to mislay in bookmarks
• moosyu's really cool site - with stuff and reviews
• Justas Juozaitis Instagram and Contribee - bike traveler from Lithuania that crossed entire Europe so many times that decided to try both Americas! Met the guy on my much shorter trip to Lithuania, inspired me to travel more!
• Bocstyle - the hairdresser, color specialist and mullet owner, cool guy from my hometown!
• Podi Fotografia - the best photographer from Zamość straight up, weddings and motorsport events are his jam! Check out Podi's instagram and his profile dedicated to cars!
• McMansion Hell - sarcastic website about obnoxiously expensive condos and palaces with funny descriptions
• Barry's Border Points - travel blog about reaching various border crossings and tripoints
• Triple Union Flag - proposed new flag for Australia