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Subject:        from USGS highlights over the past few months
Date:   Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:17:36 -0500
From:   John C Fouke <[log in to unmask]>
To:     aMaps-L





Information about the USGS providing its entire 55,000 topographic
quadrangle maps online for free download in GeoPDF format from the USGS
Store was published in the March 11 issue of Directions Magazine.  Link:
http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/4047-If-you-like-PDF...GeoPDF-Continues-to-Add-New-Features.html


NEW USGS STORE:  The new USGS Store (http://store.usgs.gov) is now live;
The IBiS team completed an extensive upgrade of the software supporting
this tool, which will bring improvements in customer access and ease of
use, provide improved digital data management, and provide better support
to the sale of USGS products as well as the delivery of digital data.  In
conjunction, the Web Services Team has created a new web site to provide a
better interface with our users.

Space Acquired Photography:  By U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3045/

2008 United States National Seismic Hazard Maps:  By Mark D. Petersen, and
others (http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3018/).

Image Maps:  The USGS National Geospatial Technical Operations Center
(NGTOC) is in the process of developing a 7.5-minute, quadrangle-based
image map.  The future image maps will be enhanced, layered, digital maps
delivered in a geo-registered Portable Document Format or Geo-PDF file.
The plan is for the user to be able to turn on and off individual map
layers, and, with extended functionality supplied by the free downloadable
tool from TerraGo Technologies, can also view the data in various
coordinate systems, projections, and datums.  Users can also add notes and
markups which can be exported to a geographic information system.  When
implememnted in the future, the maps will be available from the USGS Map
Store at http://store.usgs.gov/