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.
More News
| |
 |
|
The National Map @USGSTNM
|
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
