The Libre Map Project “Frees” USGS Maps, Info

Free electronic PD maps now much easier to find

Not widely heralded except on a few blogs, the Libre Map Project has opened its doors on the ‘Web.

It’s premise is simple and simply stated:

At this point, LMP has digital raster graphic maps (TIFF, TGW) and ZIP files containing TIGER databases. It is searchable by via geographic place name, feature type, and county (currently LPM’s constituency is the 50 American States). There is also a page of SVG files with boundaries (State, County, and census tract, unlabeled) for the conterminous 48 American States.

The importance of this site is that it adds efficiency to finding USGS maps for the user. This is PD, so anyone can download and use them (your tax dollars at work) but it took money to purchase the database (LMP is accepting donations). Hosting is provided by The Internet Archive, home of the famous “Wayback Machine”.

All documents are released under the Creative Commons “Some Rights Reserved” license.

The location to surf to is: http://libremap.org/.