It just got way, way easier to search and browse the US Geological Survey’s collection of historical topographic maps, thanks to a new online map viewer. These maps—more than 178,000 of them—date back ...

Two years ago, a mountain biker, frustrated because he could not find free, official topographic maps online, submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Geological Survey. After USGS ...

Jared Benedict raised enough money to centralize 56,000 digital topographic maps in the Internet Archive and make them available for free download. A person in Massachusetts has raised enough money to ...