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 ...

The US Geological Survey's collection of historical topographic maps just got a whole lot easier to browse, thanks to USGS's recently-released online map viewer, topoView. The new interface was ...

This month the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) rolled out topoView 2.1, a modern web application built on an open source mapping platform that lets users discover, interact, and download historical USGS ...

A map of Chicago, Illinois, imprinted in 1913 from the United States Geographical Survey’s historical topographic map collection. Image courtesy of the USGS Map lovers, rejoice! The United States ...

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 ...

The Summit Historical Society has launched a project to digitize the historic maps in its collection. Summit Historical Society director Jordan Bennett said Wednesday, Feb. 5, that the nonprofit has ...

Researchers, surveyors and general map geeks, take note: The U.S. Geological Survey just made your life a lot easier. The USGS just debuted a new online map viewer that gives the public easy access to ...