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The Federal Geographic Data Committee is now accepting nominations for the Doug D. Nebert National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Champion of the...

The U.S. Geological Survey has announced the first recipients of the 2016 partnership funding awards for the 3D Elevation Program.

Prominence is a term in topography that refers to the elevation of a summit relative to its surrounding terrain. This is different from its overall...

The USGS National Map program is transitioning all of its GIS data download capabilities to its new TNM Download client during the week of February 15...

The National Map Corps February 2016 Newsletter (Vol. 2, Issue 1) is now available. 

The USGS US Topo map program has entered its third, three-year cycle of revising and updating the digital US Topo maps. To start this new cycle, the...

The National Map Corps December 2015 Newsletter (Vol. 1, Issue 8) is now available. 

With the release of new US Topo maps for Illinois and South Dakota, the USGS has completed the second, three-year cycle of revising and updating...

Using crowdsourcing techniques, the USGS project known as The National Map Corps (TNMCorps) encourages volunteer “citizen scientists” to collect...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Large and severe tundra fires cause top down permafrost thaw, playing a major role in altering Arctic landscapes according to a...