NASA and its partners at Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) have released an improved and updated version of the most complete topographical map of Earth ever compiled.

The most complete digital topographic ever made of the Earth was released by NASA today (Oct. 17). The map, known as a global digital elevation model, was created from images collected by the ...

It's a big improvement on the previous best topographic map publicly available, which was produced by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, and surveyed 80 percent of the world.

A pair of satellites operating in tandem for five years have produced a depth map of the planet so exact you could theoretically zoom down to street level and tell an adult from a kid, or spot a ...

OFFICIAL large-scale maps are available for comparatively few parts of the world outside western and central Europe, including the British Isles, the eastern United States, India, much of Burma ...

A new geographic information systems (GIS)-ready topographic-map-style template is now available from the USGS National Geospatial Program. The Topo TNM Style Template can be readily used with the ...

A few months ago we showed you Matt Fox’s excellent topographic maps of New Zealand, which were quite impressive.Over the years he’s had many requests to create similar maps with seamless USGS ...