USGS: Viewing USGS Maps and Aerial Photo Images Online

The National Map is the product of a consortium of Federal, State, and local partners

The links below will take you to selected USGS Business Partner Program (BP) and Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) partner sites where you may view USGS maps and aerial photo images from your Web browser.

Microsoft TerraServer

Resulting from cooperative research by the USGS and Microsoft Corporation, the TerraServer provides free online access to USGS digital aerial photographs, known as digital orthophoto quadrangles, and to digital topographic maps, known as digital raster graphics. (CRADA)

MapMart.com by IntraSearch, Inc.

Online ordering of Digital Mapping and Aerial Photography. Specializing in USGS products – DLGs, DEMs, DRGs, and DOQQs – as well as custom mapping. (BP)

Maptech MapServer by Maptech, Inc.

Maptech's MapServer: Free. View, mark locations with an icon, link the icon to any URL, save your icon's location in your personalized "My Maps," and share that with a friend or colleague. Also, print and e-mail USGS topographic maps, digital orthophoto quadrangles, aero charts and NOAA nautical charts online. Maptech's MapServer allows access to the largest online database of NOAA digital charts and USGS maps available in the world. (BP)

TerraFly by TerraFly.com at Florida International University

TerraFly is an interactive "fly-over" application designed to aid in the dissemination and visualization of geospatial data via the Internet. The incorporation of USGS data could make TerraFly one of the largest databases on the Internet. TerraFly will show the user a new and innovative way to explore their digital earth. (CRADA)

Earth as Art, by LookClickPrint, Inc.

The USGS recently signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), with LookClickPrint, Inc., to develop premium quality reproductions of Landsat 7 images from the USGS "Earth as Art" image collection. (CRADA)

GlobeXplorer

GlobeXplorer provides online access to the world's largest commercial library of georeferenced aerial/satellite imagery and map data. GlobeXplorer’s GIS/CAD extensions, developer kits, and ImageAtlas Viewer tool allow easy access to USGS DOQQ and National Map aerials as well as 1:24,000, 1:100,000, and 1:250,000 topographic maps. (BP)

HistoricAerials by NETR Online

HistoricAerials.com by NETR Online, a division of Nationwide Environmental Title Research, LLC, provides free online access to historic and current aerial photographs. You can view aerial photography from the USGS taken from the 1930s through today. Multi-year comparison tools will enable the viewer to quickly recognize historical changes in a specific parcel of land or the surrounding area of a property. (BP)

DDS MapFinder by Digital Data Services, Inc.

Digital Data Services (DDS), Inc, is a geospatial service firm that specializes in paper to digital conversion services (scanning), GIS, and mapping. DDS, Inc. is a USGS Business Partner as well as a USGS Innovative Partner where we are currently participating in a data exchange program involving USGS map products. MapFinder is a searchable USGS topographic map index utilizing base map information derived from Google Earth, which is required in order to download free USGS maps. (BP/IP)

If you are a USGS Business or Cooperative Research and Development Partner, and have an online service which may meet the criteria for being listed on this page, please contact us.