Earth:Libre Map Project
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
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 maps in Digital 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]
See also
References
- ↑ "USGS Maps: Free Image: Borrow and Streaming - Internet Archive". https://archive.org/details/maps_usgs.
- ↑ "the future is yesterday » Libre Map Project update". 2007-02-22. http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2006/10/29/libre-map-project-update/.
- ↑ "Libre Map Project: Free the Maps!". http://ransom.redjar.org/original_page.html.
- ↑ Libre Map Project
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