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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
(Redirected from USGS Maps)

The Libre Map Project is an 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.

History[edit]

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 mapsinDigital 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 indefinitely.[2]

56,000 maps in Digital raster graphic form were acquired on DVDs for $1600 to make the data available.[3] Additional data made available through the project includes SVG boundary files for every US state, Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (Tiger)/Line 2003 vector map data, and the USGS GeoNames database.[4]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "USGS Maps: Free Image: Borrow and Streaming - Internet Archive". archive.org. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  • ^ "the future is yesterday » Libre Map Project update". 2007-02-22. Archived from the original on 2007-02-22. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  • ^ "Libre Map Project: Free the Maps!". Archived from the original on 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  • ^ Libre Map Project

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