WASHINGTON DC — Hikers, hunters and other outdoor recreationists will be pleased to know that free digital topographic maps are now available online from the U.S. Geological Survey.

No audio available for this content. The app currently aids a growing number of people who reference digital devices for work or recreation. Travelers, scientists and conservation and environmental ...

Now you've got one less excuse not to venture into the wilderness. National Geographic just launched a website that lets you find and print a PDF of any U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) quad map across ...

No audio available for this content. This graphic represents the planned US Topo map production schedule for the next three- year revision cycle. The US Topo project repackages data from national GIS ...

A detailed representation of a landscape, created by the United States Geological Survey, and a rare example of something every bit as beautiful as it is useful. The charts were the brainchild of ...

The U.S. Geological Survey is scanning 250,000 of its historic maps to put online. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is nearly halfway through its release of more than 250,000 historical topographic ...

It just got way, way easier to search and browse the US Geological Survey’s collection of historical topographic maps, thanks to a new online map viewer. These maps—more than 178,000 of them—date back ...

We have in the past looked at a lot of content provided by the USGS. The USGS is the provider of the data for the ‘earthquakes layer’ in Google Earth. We also looked at some of their future plans, ...

During the latter half of the twentieth century, the backbone of the U.S. Geological Survey’s national mapping effort was the 7.5-minute topographic quadrangle. These detailed printed maps defined ...

Beginning in the 1940s, the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Mapping Program was tasked with the immense cartographical feat of surveying the entire country to create a series of more than 50,000 ...