The most famous maps of course are Google Maps and Google Earth. Google Earth has so many amazing features, the historical imagery, streetview, topography... Google Earth is one of the greatest maps ever made.
But Google lacks detail in many ways. There are many paper towns on the map for anti-theft reasons, and borders are often misplaced. OpenStreetMap solves this problem with the most accurate borders of EEZ I have ever found. OpenStreetMap has the advantage that if there is any mistake, you can go in and fix it. It is 100% open source, so their base map can be used for whatever project you want to start. The biggest downside is it does not have satellite imagery.
Google Earth and OpenStreetMap together provide you lacking nothing in terms of features.
Apple Maps is good as well, it is only available to people with Apple devices however. Anyone can use Google or OpenStreetMap on any device.
When it comes to historical atlases there are three main contenders:
Geacron is the one I have been using the longest, and it is a good project. But it lacks detail.
OldMapsOnline is similar, it has links to historical maps on their website, but still lacks detail.
OpenHistoricalMap however has the ability for anyone to add as much detail as they want. It is the only service which anyone can edit at any time for any reason. I believe with enough volunteers OpenHistoricalMap will become the greatest historical map in history.
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