The best places to look are:
    online:
       Genealogisches Orts Verzeichnis (GOV)
          For modern and historical Germany.  Gives geographical,
          historical, archival, and bibliographical information.
          <http://gov.genealogy.net/>
       GEOserv
          For modern Germany only.
          Send email to geo@genealogy.net with the message body
          the name of the village you are looking for.  Further
          instructions can be received by using INFO as the name
          of a village, or from the German genealogy server at
          <http://www.genealogy.net/misc/geoserv.html>
       Yahoo Routenplaner
          <http://de.maps.yahoo.com/>
       Expedia
          <http://maps.expedia.com/>
       GEOnet Names Server (GNS)
          For modern placenames anywhere outside the USA.
          <http://www.nima.mil/gns/html/index.html>
       ShtetlSeeker, for central and eastern Europe,
          gives German and local names
          <http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm>
       Deutsche Ortschaften im 19. Jahrhundert,
          incomplete, but covers Germany, Poland, Hungary, Rumania
          <http://www.genealswiss.net/>
       Kartenmeister
          For formerly German places east of the Oder and Neisse rivers.
          <http://www.kartenmeister.com/>
       Atlas des deutschen Reiches
          1883 edition by Ravenstein with index.  View at 400%.
          http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein/
    atlas:
       Falk (formerly RV) Autoatlas (volumes for Germany and Poland)
          Available for DM30 in German bookstores or from
          Interlink Bookshop, 3840A Cadboro Bay Road,
          Victoria, B.C. V8N 4G2 Canada, +1 (800) 747-4877,
          <http://www.interlinkbookshop.com/>
    maps:
       Excellent modern and historical maps are published by the
       German Landesvermessungsbeh"orden (geodetic survey offices)
         <http://www.genealogy.net/misc/maps-lva.html>,
       the Bundesamt f"ur Kartographie und Geod"asie in Berlin
         <http://www.ifag.de/>
       the Bundesamt f"ur Landestopographie in Switzerland
         <http://www.swisstopo.ch/>
       the Bundesamt f"ur Eich- und Vermessungswesen in Austria
         <http://www.bev.gv.at/>
       and others, and are available at German bookstores or through
       Interlink Bookshop.
       The FEEFHS has an online maproom at
         <http://feefhs.org/maps/indexmap.html>
       Old city and town maps are available from Generations Press at
         <http://www.generationspress.com/catalogs/germany.html>
    gazetteers:
       1912 _Meyers Ortslexikon_ (Meyers Gazetteer)
          For towns in Germany or lost by Germany after either 20th-
          century world war.  Probably at your local LDS FHC.
       _Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortschaften jenseits von Oder und
       Neisse_ (Gazetteer of Localities East of the Oder and Neisse)
          If the town was lost by Germany after the Second World
          War, this will give you the current name.

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