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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Reactions to web site: USGS National Atlas

Reactions to USGS National Atlas ...

posted by Greg Downey @ 4:07 PM   2 comments

2 Comments:

At 10:55 PM, Blogger umaysay said...

USGS National Atlas map maker doesn’t provide detail map even though the map layers obtain a lot of types of demographic information. I don’t know how to read the map. It is unclear for me to use the function.

 
At 10:20 AM, Blogger Nick said...

The claim of this site is "you've found the single best Federal source for national maps and geographic information on the Web." This is probably true when you consider the variety of data sets available, but the quality of the base maps are downright bad I thought. Adding layers of info spruces up these maps, the "shaded relief" option under Geology being an especially pretty option.
Once you make a map, the "find" tab has an option to see aerial photos and topo maps, which links you to...Terraserver! So USGS uses that project in more than one place, nice job.
Something I didn't like aobut the interface was that the links were not obvious - the print was too small. On the agriculture section, for example, I didn't even realize there were links to the mapping services.

 

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