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“We’re trying to make the maps look and feel like the old topo maps you could hold in your hand,” USGS Montana geospatial liason Lance Clampitt said from Bozeman. “We’ve gone from ...
In late June 2025, an ancient city covering several square miles was discovered beneath Wyoming's Horse Peak mountain. Throughout late June 2025, social media users claimed that an ancient city more ...
Nearly two dozen state geological surveys depend heavily on federal funds. A proposed budget cut could slow or stop key geologic mapping work.
Bhutan marked a major milestone in its digital development journey with the official handover of the Digital Topographic Map by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to the National Land ...
Google is among the first companies to rename maps from Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Other software leaders, like Apple Maps, are starting to follow suit.
Bernard Hubbard didn’t set out to map minerals. As a geology PhD student at UB, he used satellite and airborne instruments to study volcanoes from above. Later, as a research geologist with the United ...
THE practical problems involved in the interpretation of geological and topographical maps are here dealt with in a manner likely to appeal to students of geology and civil engineering. Having ...
N early 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake, according to a recently updated USGS map.
Since 2011, the United States Geological Survey has uploaded 190,000 scans of historical USGS topographic maps made between 1884 and 2006.
Using scanned maps and data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Esri developed an interactive tool to explore topographic maps of the US.