Libre Map Project
The Libre Map Project was an online collection of all digital USGS 1:24K scale topographic maps (as well as various other GIS data) covering the United States, available as a free download.
History
[edit]The Libre Map Project was started by Jared Benedict and around 100 additional individuals contributing money to purchase (or "liberate") a full set of 1:24K scale USGS topographic maps in Digital raster graphic form.[1] The map files were then hosted by archive.org to ensure the map data will continue to be freely available to everyone indefinitely.[2]
56,000 maps in digital raster graphic form were acquired on DVDs for $1600 to make the data available.[3] Additional data made available through the project includes SVG boundary files for every US state, Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (Tiger)/Line 2003 vector map data, and the USGS GeoNames database.
Based on the archive of the website on the Wayback Machine, the project closed in October 2017[4].
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "USGS Maps: Free Image: Borrow and Streaming - Internet Archive". archive.org. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
- ↑ "the future is yesterday » Libre Map Project update". 2007-02-22. Archived from the original on 2007-02-22. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
- ↑ "Libre Map Project: Free the Maps!". Archived from the original on 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
- ↑ "Libre Map Project". Archived from the original on 16 Oct 2017. Retrieved 14 Nov 2025.