Map Maker Release History

2006

05/2006
Launched a new version of nationalatlas.gov.

New Layers: Water Use 1985, Water Use 1990, Satellite View with Shaded Relief - Alaska, Satellite View - Alaska

04/2006
Launched a new version of nationalatlas.gov.

New Layers: Vegetation Growth - Average: 2005, Vegetation Growth - Peak: 2005

Updated Layers: Time Zones

03/2006
Launched a new version of nationalatlas.gov.

New Layers: Satellite View

Updated Layers: Invasive Species – Africanized Honey Bees, Satellite View with Shaded Relief (name change from Satellite View to Satellite View with Shaded Relief), Economy – Average Wage Per Job: 1979-2003, Economy – Per Capita Number of Jobs: 1979-2003, Economy – Per Capita Personal Income: 1979-2003, Dams, Hydrologic Units

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2005

12/2005
Launched a new version of nationalatlas.gov.

New Layers: Vegetation Growth - Average: 1990-2004, Vegetation Growth - Peak: 1990-2004, Satellite View, Shaded Relief Land - Color - 200 Meter Resolution, Food Stamp Recipients: 1989, 1993, 1995, 1997-2002, Median Household Income: 1998-2002, Poverty - All People: 1998-2002, Poverty - Children Under Age 18: 1998-2002, Poverty - Related Children Ages 5 - 17 in Families in Poverty: 1998-2002, Water Use 1995

Updated Layers: Federal Lands, Indian Lands, Wilderness Preservation System Areas, Geologic Map, Mineral Operations - Agriculture, Mineral Operations - Construction, Mineral Operations - Ferrous Metal Mines, Mineral Operations - Ferrous Metal Processing Plants, Mineral Operations - Miscellaneous Industrial, Mineral Operations - Nonferrous Metal Mines, Mineral Operations - Nonferrous Metal Processing Plants, Mineral Operations - Refractory, Abrasive and Other Industrial Minerals, Unemployment Rates: 2002-2004, Parkways and Scenic Rivers, Streams and Waterbodies

09/2005
Launched a new version of nationalatlas.gov.

New Layers: Land Cover 200 Meter Resolution, National Fire Plan - Hazardous Fuels Reduction Program 2004, Tornadoes 1950-2004, Shaded Relief Ocean, Shaded Relief Land and Ocean, Shaded Relief Land - Gray - 1 Kilometer Resolution, Shaded Relief Land - Gray - 200 Meter Resolution, Amtrak Stations, Water Use 2000

Updated Layers: Land Cover 1 Kilometer Resolution, Africanized Bees, 109th Congressional Districts, Tropical Cyclones - Atlantic Tropical Cyclones, Tropical Cyclones - Major Landfalling Atlantic Hurricanes, Tropical Cyclones - Pacific Tropical Cyclones, Ocean Depth - Bathymetry, Shaded Relief Land - Color - 1 Kilometer Resolution, Volcanoes, Unemployment Rates: 2000-2004, Railroads

06/2005
Launched a new version of nationalatlas.gov.

New Layers: Ecoregions - Omernik, Ocean Depth - Bathymetry, Engineering Aspects of Karst, Territorial Acquisitions, Index to Topographic Maps - 1:250,000 Scale, Ground Water Climate Response Network

Updated Layers: 2002 Census of Agriculture, Ecoregions - Bailey, 2004 West Nile Virus, Wildlife Mortality: Avian Botulism, Wildlife Mortality: Avian Cholera, Wildlife Mortality: Frequency Data, Wildlife Mortality: Lead Poisoning, Wildlife Mortality: Organophosphate/Carbamate Poisoning, Zebra Mussels, States, Sand and Gravel Operations, Crushed Stone Operations, Air Releases, Hazardous Waste Handlers, Superfund National Priorities List Sites, Toxics Release Inventory, Water Discharge Permits, Crimes 1994-2002, Energy Consumption 1960-2001, Hydrologic Units (Watersheds)

01/2005
Launched a complete new edition of nationalatlas.gov.

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2004

11/2004
New Layers: Reproductive Health: Fetal and Infant Mortality, 1995-1999, Reproductive Health: Infant Health - Preterm Delivery, 1995-1999, Reproductive Health: Live Births (Fertility), 1995-1999, Reproductive Health: Maternal Risks - Multiple Gestation, 1995-1999, Reproductive Health: Maternal Risks - Smoking, 1995-1999
Updated Layers: Income and Employment, 1979-2002, County Boundaries, 1980, County Boundaries, 1990, County Boundaries, 2000, County Boundaries, 2001

9/2004
New Layers: Hazard Events 1995-2000 and Energy Consumption.
Updated Layer: Time Zones

8/2004
Following several rounds of usability studies and months of development work, launched all new Map Maker.
Updated Layer: Mineral Operations-Miscellaneous Industrial Information

7/2004
Fixed bug in Print Map function.
Renamed Map Layers in the People Chapter.
Removed Layers: West Nile Virus Mosquito - 2000, West Nile Virus Mosquito - 2001, West Nile Virus Sentinel Chickens - 2000, and West Nile Virus Sentinel Chickens - 2001
New Layers: Population - Age - Over 65, Population - Median Age - 1990, Population - Change between 1990 and 2000, Health - 2003 West Nile Virus Human Cases, Health - 2002 West Nile Virus Human Cases, West Nile Virus Veterinary Cases - 2002, West Nile Virus Veterinary Cases - 2003, West Nile Virus Wild Bird Cases - 2002, and West Nile Virus Wild Bird Cases - 2003

6/2004
Updated Layers: Mineral Operations-Agricultural, Mineral Operations-Construction, Mineral Operations-Miscellaneous Industrial Information, Mineral Operations-Refractory, Abrasive, and Other Industrial Information, Forest Fragmentation - Causes, and Forest Fragmentation - Classification

5/2004
Updated Layers: Unemployment - 2001 and Unemployment - 2002

4/2004
New Layers: Personal Income, Per Capita Personal Income, Number of Jobs, and Average Wage per Job
Updated Layer: Volcanoes

3/2004
New Layers: Ecoregions and Surficial Deposits and Materials
Updated Layer: Cities and Towns

2/2004
New Layer: Forest Fragmentation - Causes
Updated Layer: Wilderness Areas
Map Layer name change: Invasive Species-Chinese tallow tree (Triadica sebifera) to Invasive Species-Tallowtree (Triadica sebifera)

1/2004
Updated Layer: Times Zones

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2003

09/30/2003
Updated Layer: 108th Congressional Districts

09/30/2003
Updated Layer: Historical North Atlantic Hurricanes - Major Storms with Landfall in US
Updated Layer: Historical North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones

07/09/2003
Fixed Print Function - creates map that will fit on 8 1/2 x 11 inches paper.

05/22/2003
New Map Layer: Labor Statistics
Updated Layer: Agriculture Census

05/13/2003
Updated Map Layers:
Mineral Operations - Construction
Mineral Operations - Miscellaneous Industrial
Mineral Operations - Refractory, Abrasive, and Other Industrial
Invasive Species - Zebra Mussels
North American Bats

04/23/2003
Updated Map Layer:
Shaded Relief

04/9/2003
Updated Map Layers:
United States Crimes Database
Federal Lands and Indian Reservations

04/07/2003
Introduced a major upgrade to the Map Maker. The map size more than doubled. The graphical user interface was replaced and significantly improved. We now use ESRI's ArcIMS software to serve maps created using MapObjects.

02/05/2003
New Map Layer:
108th Congressional District
Removed Map Layer
107th Congressional District

01/13/2003
Updated Map Layers:
Arsenic in Ground Water
Forest Cover Type
Forest Fragmentation
Land Cover Characteristics
Land Cover Diversity
Nighttime Lights
Public Land Survey System
Shaded Relief
Streams and Waterbodies

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2002

12/18/2002
New map layer:  Wilderness Areas

12/03/2002
New map layers:  Alluvial and Glacial Aquifers
  Updated map layers:  Hydrologic Units (Watersheds)
Name change:  Hydrography to Streams and Waterbodies (metadata only)

10/25/2002
Updated the map key for Nighttime Lights map layer.
Name change:  
  Federal and Indian Lands to Federal Lands and Indian Reservations
  US Mortality to U.S. Mortality 1988-1992 (metadata only)

10/11/2002
Updated map layers:  Cities and Towns

9/27/2002
Name change:  Landslide Overview to Landslide Incidence and Susceptibility

9/10/2002
New map layers:
  Arsenic in Ground Water
  Census 2000
  North American Bat Ranges
Updated map layers: 
  County Boundaries, 2001
  Census 1990
  Census 1980
  Air Release
  Discharges to Water
  Hazardous Waste Handler
  Superfund Sites
  Toxic Releases
Name change:  County Boundaries  to County Boundaries, 2001 (metadata only)
Removed map layer:  Other EnviroFacts sites

8/14/2002
New map layer:  Seismic Hazards

8/9/2002
Removed map layer:  Metropolitan Areas

7/26/2002
New map layers:
  West Nile Virus Surveillance 2001 - Human Cases
  West Nile Virus Surveillance 2001 - Mosquito Surveillance
  West Nile Virus Surveillance 2001 - Sentinel Flock Surveillance
  West Nile Virus Surveillance 2001 - Veterinary Cases
  West Nile Virus Surveillance 2001 - Wild Bird Cases

7/15/2002
Updated map layers:
  County Boundaries
  2000 County Boundaries
  1990 County Boundaries
  1980 County Boundaries
  States

6/6/2002
Updated map layers:
  Forest Cover Types
  Forest Fragmentation Index Map of North America
  Land Cover Characteristics
  Land Cover Diversity
  Nighttime Lights of North America

5/17/2002
Updated map layers:
  Tropical Cyclones
  Public Land Survey System

5/09/2002
Updated map layer:  Time Zones

4/25/2002
Updated map layer:  Amphibians

• 1980 County Boundaries
• 1990 County Boundaries
• County Boundaries

2/01/2002
New map layer:  Continental Divide
Updated map layer:  Hydrologic Unit Boundaries

1/16/2002:
Updated map layer: 107th Congressional Districts

1/7/2002
New map layers:
2000 Presidential General Election, State Results
2000 Presidential General Election, County Results

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2001

12/20/2001
Updated map layer:  Zebra Mussel Distribution 

12/03/2001
Updated map layer:  Volcanoes 

10/31/2001
Updated map layers:  Airports, Costly Regional Landslide Events in the United States 

7/2/2001
  Removed map layers:  Amphibian Distribution Pre-1950 through 1990s

9/25/2001
New map layers:  Historical North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Tracks, Historical North Atlantic Hurricane Tracks - Major Storms with Landfall in the United States

8/8/2001
New map layer:  Coal fields

7/5/2001
New map layers:  West Nile Virus Surveillance 2000 - Human Cases, West Nile Virus Surveillance 2000 - Mosquito Surveillance Cases, West Nile Virus Surveillance 2000 - Sentinel Flock Surveillance, West Nile Virus Surveillance 2000 - Veterinary Cases, West Nile Virus Surveillance 2000 - Wild Bird Cases

5/15/2001
Updated map layers:  Mineral Operation - Construction, Mineral Operation - Miscellaneous, Mineral Operation -Refractory, Official Protraction Diagram and Leasing Map Boundaries

5/10/2001
New map layer:  Generalized Geologic Map of the Conterminous United States
Updated map layer: Nighttime Lights of North America

5/1/2001
Updated map layer:  Hydrologic Units (Watersheds)
New map layers:  Landslide - Costly Landslide Events, Landslide - Costly Regional Landslides, Landslide Overview Map, Magnetic Field Horizontal Intensity, Magnetic Field Horizontal Intensity Secular Variation, Magnetic Field Total Field Intensity, Magnetic Field Total Field Intensity Secular Variation, Magnetic Field Vertical Intensity, Magnetic Field Vertical Intensity Secular Variation

3/8/2001
New map layer:  United States Crimes Database

2/28/2001
New map layers:  Amphibians Pre-1950 through 1990s
New multimedia map:  Avian Cholera Outbreaks

2/14/2001
New map layer:  Landslide Overview Map
Updated map layer:  107th Congressional Districts

2/7/2001
New map layer:  NAWQA Surface-Water Sites 
Updated map layers: County Boundaries, 1990 County Boundaries, 1980 County Boundaries

1/24/2001
New map layer:  Forest Cover Types

1/12/2001
Updated map layer: Urban Areas, replaced 106th Congressional Districts with 107th Congressional Districts.

New map layers added:  Sand and Gravel Operations, Crushed Stone Operations, Index to Topographic Maps - 1:24,000 and Other Large Scales, Index to Topographic Maps - 1:100,000 Scale

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2000

12/8/2000
Updated map layer:  Cities and Towns

11/22/2000
Updated map layers:  Air Releases, Discharges to Water, Hazardous Waste Handler, Other EnviroFacts sites, Superfund Sites, and Toxic Releases

11/20/2000

• leafy spurge database
• Chinese privet database
• purple loosestrife database
• Chinese tallow tree database
• common gorse database

10/18/2000
Updated map layer:  Federal and Indian Lands.

8/14/2000
Updated map layer: Realtime Streamflow Stations.

07/2000
New map layer added: 1980 census.

05/2000
New map layers added:  106th Congressional Districts, Magnetic Field-Declination Secular Variation, Magnetic Field-Inclination, Magnetic Field-Inclination Secular Variation, five Wildlife Mortalities (Botulism, Cholera, Lead Poisoning, Organophosphate/Carbamate Poisoning), Forest Fragmentation
Updated map layers: Zebra Mussels, Parkways and Scenic Rivers

03/06/2000
The server has been updated to add hotlinks for Aquifer, County, and State.  Also added were labels for the Declination map layer.

02/01/2000
New map layer added: Magnetic Field - Declination

01/19/2000
These problems with the Map Layer Query have been fixed: all layers with name fields (or in absence of that, a location field) can be queried now.  State, county, and FIPS field have been added to Abandoned Mines, Dams, Realtime Streamflow Stations, and Zebra Mussels to make field names consistent. The query-- "No Meaningful Attributes have been found" changed to "No Additional Attributes have been found"

01/12/2000
New map layer added: Index to Topographic Maps.

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1999

12/02/1999
Updated map layer: The shorelines in the 1990 counties data.

11/24/1999
Updated map layers: States, Counties, Streams and Waterbodies, Roads, US Mortality, Moth and Butterfly Distribution
A problem with the Land Cover legend and the Mortality legend has been fixed.

11/23/1999
Updated map layer: Realtime Streamflow Stations, Envirofacts map layers

11/3/1999
Links to the MicroSoft TerraServer site and an aerial photo index were added.

11/1/1999
New map layer: Zebra Mussel Distribution

8/16/1999
New map layers: Significant Earthquakes, Breeding Bird Survey Routes
Added capability to add County labels to map.

7/21/1999
New map layer: Public Land Survey System

7/14/1999
New map layer: Metropolitan Areas
A new print function was added to the Map Maker.

7/8/1999
New map layer: Shaded Relief

6/14/1999
Added capability to add State labels to map.
New map layer: Land Cover Characteristics
Updated: Geographic Names database

5/26/1999
New map layers: Time Zones, Land Cover Diversity

5/3/1999
Added Zoom to State feature.

3/29/1999
Modified the symbols for Streams and Water Bodies.
New map layers:  Air Releases, Discharges to Water, Hazardous Waste Handler, Other EnviroFacts sites, Superfund Sites, and Toxic Releases

3/22/1999
New map layer:  Hydrologic Units (Watersheds)
Added glacial extent to aquifers map layer.
Added the scale bar to the map display window.
Legend now shows only those map layers which are active.
Quick Help now appears in the Index map window when entering the Map Maker.

1/25/1999
New map layer:  Abandoned Coal Mine Related Problems

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1998

11/23/1998
New map layers:  8 Mineral Operations

11/03/1998
New map layers: 1990 Census, Dams, US mortality map
Added panning feature to Index map.

09/21/1998
New map layers: Butterfly and Moth Distributions

09/21/1998
New map layer:  Shorelines
Fixed minor bugs and misspellings.

09/15/1998
Fixed a bug that occurred in Frame 2 when the Layers button was clicked repeatedly

09/10/1998
New map layer: Principal Aquifers
Added function to return geographic (latitude/longitude) coordinates from an Identify operation. Added wild card search functionality to geographic names queries. Fixed Identify bug associated with Streams and Waterbodies map layer.

08/07/1998
Added coordinates of the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection to records resulting from geographic names queries.

07/13/1998
Rearranged order of map layers within themes in Frame 2. Added a Download button to the upper-right frame.  Fixed JavaScript error related to display of legend and help file pop-up windows.

6/01/1998
Added direct link to Map Layers Warehouse for data download. Added link to User Survey. Added geographic mesh (latitude/longitude) as a selectable layer. Fixed runtime error.

4/28/1998
Fixed two bugs related to identifying streams at scales smaller than 1:2,500,000. Added symbol for streamflow stations in legend. Enhanced labeling for roads following a map layers query.

04/21/1998
Added support for Recreation.Gov Web site (in 2/2003 this feature was removed, since Recreation.Gov no longer links to the National Atlas).

New map layer: Real-time Streamflow Stations

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