National Geospatial Technical Operations Center
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National Geospatial Technical Operations CenterThe U.S. Geological Survey National Geospatial Technical Operations Center (NGTOC) provides leadership and world-class technical expertise in the acquisition and management of trusted geospatial data, services, and map products for the Nation. NGTOC supports The National Map as part of the National Geospatial Program. NGTOC News and Highlights News Archive
October 6, 2016
Enhanced US Topo maps feature national park trails and amenities: Newly released US Topo maps for North Carolina and Tennessee are now available and for the first time, the maps covering Great Smoky Mountains National Park display trails, campgrounds, visitor centers, boundaries and other visitor information in a national park. GSMNP spans two states, ranging over 816 square miles and host more than10 million visitors per year. The new maps also feature segments of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, the inclusion U.S. Census Bureau’s Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) road data, the integration of wetlands layers using data from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory, along with the continued incorporation of high-resolution streams and rivers from the National Hydrography Dataset. US Topo maps and are available for no-cost file download from The National Map Download client and several other USGS applications.
Map Viewer Enhancements: A new 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 Topo Map Vector Data products and other data available for download from The National Map. The template and TNM data are intended to be used together to quickly provide an advanced Geographic Information Systems user with a fully customizable map in the style of US Topo maps using the most current TNM data available.
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Mapping the Arctic: The Arctic SDI Board, which includes mapping executives from Canada, Kingdom of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States, recently met in Anchorage, Alaska to further development of a robust Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure. The Arctic SDI is a cooperation based on a Memorandum of Understanding signed by the eight National Mapping Agencies and is intended to ensure Arctic geospatial data is easier for users to access, validate and combine with other data.
Story Map – Topographic Maps for the Nation: The USGS National Geospatial Program has released an interactive Story Map giving viewers an overview of the US Topo map program. Building on the success from more than 132 years of mapping the Nation, US Topo maps are georeferenced digital maps produced from the data of The National Map. The quadrangles are designed to be used like the traditional 7.5-minute paper topographic maps for which the USGS is so well known. However, in contrast to paper-based maps, US Topo maps provide modern technical advantages that support faster, wider public distribution, basic, on-screen geographic analysis and local printing options for all users.
More Maps and Mappers in the News:
NHD Newsletter: The most recent edition of the NHD Newsletter has been posted. The monthly bulletin features issues in the USGS National Hydrography Dataset and Watershed Boundary Dataset. Highlights: Delineation of Maine Coastal Waters in the NHD, NHDPlusV2 National Seamless File Geodatabase Released, NHD Quality Control Errors and How to Resolve Those Errors, and other current hydrography related news. Newsletter readers are encouraged to send in articles on their work to help spread the word of how the NHD and WBD are contributing to water management and science. To view this and past newsletters go to http://nhd.usgs.gov/newsletter_list.html
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US Topo Update: The availability of US Topo maps has reached its third "cycle." That means that each USGS quadrangle in the U.S. and appropriate territories is entering its third revision phase. Alaska is the lone exclusion, and is covered as part of the Alaska Mapping Initiative. The production and release of US Topo maps started in October 2009. In October 2012, the project has met its very aggressive long term goal of replacing all quads in the lower 48 states in three years with the new GeoPDF maps. The National Geospatial Technical Operations Center reports the following US Topo maps are loaded to the Map Locator of the USGS Store (as of 06-03-16):
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