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Online collection of all digital USGS 1:24K scale topographic maps (as well as various other GIS data) covering the United States, available as a free download. NPScape United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NPScape is a landscape dynamics monitoring project that provides landscape-level data, tools, and evaluations for ...
The Libre Map Project was started by Jared Benedict and around 100 additional individuals contributing money to purchase (or "liberate") a full set of 1:24K scale USGS topographic maps in Digital raster graphic form. [1] The map files were then hosted by archive.org to ensure the map data will continue to be freely available to everyone ...
Georeferenced map images are available from the USGS as digital raster graphics (DRGs) in addition to digital data sets based on USGS maps, notably digital line graphs (DLGs) and digital elevation models (DEMs). In 2015, the USGS unveiled the topoView website, a new way to view their entire digitized collection of over 178,000 maps from 1884 to ...
150 photos included in The California Coast from the Air (2014) by Gary Griggs and Deepika Shrestha Ross. [12] Photos of Fort Funston near San Francisco were used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to test a method of calculating the amount of coastal erosion. [13] [14]
Charting North America, maps and atlases in the New York Public Library Digital Collection; Online digitized versions of many 18th- and 19th-century American atlases, as well as the 1897 Rand McNally Indexed Atlas of the World and many other maps, can be found at DavidRumsey.com. Hipkiss' Scanned Old Maps from Atlases and any old books with ...
Libre Map Project. All 50 States USGS Topographic Maps on the Internet Archive; USGS Topographic Maps of ALL 50 States; USGS Sites Digital Raster Graphics Archived 2005-05-21 at the Wayback Machine; Earth Explorer (GeoTIFFs) Map Locator (GeoPDFs) Kentucky Raster Graphics Image Download Center Archived 2006-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey emblem from 1891 map Coast and Geodetic Survey headquarters—the Richards Building—in 1902, with the United States Capitol visible in the distance. On February 5, 1889, by a joint resolution of Congress, the U.S. government accepted an invitation by the government of the German Empire to become a party ...
It traces its history to the Survey of the Coast, which was formed in 1807 as the first scientific agency of the U.S. federal government. It became the United States Coast Survey in 1836 and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1878, the latter name change reflecting the increasing role of geodesy in its work. Upon the creation of ...