-------- Original Message -------- 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/