The Libre Map Project is an online collection of all digital
USGS
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an government agency, agency of the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geograp ...
1:24K scale
topographic maps (as well as various other GIS data) covering the United States, available as a free download.
History
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
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an government agency, agency of the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geograp ...
topographic maps in
Digital raster graphic form. The map files were then hosted by
archive.org to ensure the map data will continue to be freely available to everyone indefinitely.
56,000 maps in
digital raster graphic form were acquired on DVDs for $1600 to make the data available. Additional data made available through the project includes
SVG boundary files for every US state,
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing, or TIGER, or TIGER/Line is a format used by the United States Census Bureau to describe physical and cultural features such as roads, highways, city limits, rivers, and lakes, as well ...
(Tiger)/Line 2003 vector map data, and the USGS
GeoNames
GeoNames (or GeoNames.org) is a user-editable geographical database available and accessible through various web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license. The project was founded in late 2005.
The GeoNames dataset differs from, b ...
database.
Libre Map Project
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See also
* TopoQuest
References
External links
Official Website
Map Lead Scraper
USGS Map Webpage
Web Map Services
Topography techniques
Internet Archive collections
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