Tag: The National Map
USGS Webinar: Using The National Map Services to Enable your Web and Mobile Mapping Efforts
Are you a developer, firm, or organization using mobile or web applications to enable your users? The USGS has publicly available geospatial services and data to help you! The USGS’ National Geospatial Technical Operations Center (NGTOC) will be hosting a 30 minute Webinar on “Using The National Map services to enable your web and mobile…
USGS The National Map Corps Crowd-Sourcing the Nation: Now a National Effort
Crowd-Sourcing the Nation: Now a National Effort The USGS continues to expand its crowd-sourcing of geographic data and is seeking volunteers nation-wide to contribute structures information The mapping crowd-sourcing program, known as The National Map Corps (TNMCorps), encourages citizens to collect structures data by adding new features, removing obsolete points, and correcting existing data for The National Map database. Structures being mapped in…
Surveyor’s Saturday Serendipity: USGS National Atlas Streamer
In this week’s Surveyor’s Saturday Serendipity I’d like to introduce you to a new mapping service from the USGS, part of the National Atlas, called Streamer. Navigate America’s Major Rivers Without Getting Wet
USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection Now Online
Examining Our Past: Historical Map Collection Now Online Nearly 90,000 high resolution scans of the more than 200,000 historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884, are now available online. The Historical Topographic Map Collection includes published U.S. maps of all scales and editions, and are offered as a georeferenced digital download or as…
USGS Geography: The National Map
USGS Geography: The National Map. Screenshot of Epcot Center in USGS National Map “The National Map, our online, interactive map service. You can view The National Mapby using your Web browser (no special software or download required). The National Map is a consistent framework for geographic knowledge needed by the Nation. It provides public access…