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Libre Map Project

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The Libre Map Project is an online collection of all digital USGS 1:24K scale topographic maps (as well as various other GIS data) covering the United States, available as a free download.

History

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The Libre Map Project was started by Jared Benedict and around 100 additional individuals contributing money to purchase (or "liberate") a full set of 1:24K scale USGS topographic maps in Digital raster graphic form.[1] The map files were then hosted by archive.org to ensure the map data will continue to be freely available to everyone indefinitely.[2]

56,000 maps in digital raster graphic form were acquired on DVDs for $1600 to make the data available.[3] Additional data made available through the project includes SVG boundary files for every US state, Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (Tiger)/Line 2003 vector map data, and the USGS GeoNames database.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "USGS Maps: Free Image: Borrow and Streaming - Internet Archive". archive.org. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  2. ^ "the future is yesterday » Libre Map Project update". 2007-02-22. Archived from the original on 2007-02-22. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  3. ^ "Libre Map Project: Free the Maps!". Archived from the original on 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  4. ^ Libre Map Project
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