{"id":1520,"date":"2014-07-16T02:23:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T02:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2014-07-16T02:51:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T02:51:35","slug":"explorer-makes-access-to-usgs-historical-topographic-map-collection-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/explorer-makes-access-to-usgs-historical-topographic-map-collection-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Explorer Makes Access to USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1522\" style=\"width: 1913px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/newport.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1522\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/newport.png?resize=640%2C330&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A screen grab of the 1904 map showing Newport.  Notice the timeline at the bottom showing other available products.\" width=\"640\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/newport.png?w=1913&amp;ssl=1 1913w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/newport.png?resize=300%2C154&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/newport.png?resize=1024%2C527&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/newport.png?resize=800%2C412&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/newport.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen grab of the 1904 map showing Newport. Notice the timeline at the bottom showing other available products.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Esri, a geographic information technology company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/esri-news\/releases\/14-3qtr\/new-york-to-la-history-of-americas-maps-in-one-app\">have partnered to make the enormous <\/a>collection of the Survey\u2019s map readily available to everyone.\u00a0 While these\u00a0resources have been downloadable on the Internet since September 2011, this new, user-friendly website provides convenient access to the \u201cHistorical Topographic Map Collection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This new interface or explorer is a significant improvement over the original system, which was more complicated.\u00a0 The explorer brings to life more than 178,000 maps from 1884 to 2006, allowing users to easily access geo-referenced images, which can also be used in web mapping applications.\u00a0 The timeline allows visitors to easily explore the collection by place, time, and scale, and the sheets are easily downloaded.<\/p>\n<p>Use of the landing page is simple.\u00a0 Visitors enter the desired location in a query box, and once you click on the map a convenient timeline comes up, showing the survey for that place.\u00a0 The user is able to visual see the products that were produced over time and move along the line to see the changes over time.<\/p>\n<p>Check this out, as you will find lots to help with your local and family history research<\/p>\n<p>CL<a href=\"http:\/\/www.screencast.com\/t\/XGXlrIyB2oTj\">ICK HERE TO VIEW A BRIEF VIDEO DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE EXPLORE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Esri, a geographic information technology company, have partnered to make the enormous collection of the Survey\u2019s map readily available to everyone.\u00a0 While these\u00a0resources have been downloadable on the Internet since September 2011, this new, user-friendly website provides convenient access to the \u201cHistorical Topographic Map Collection.\u201d This new interface or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[102,100,101,103,99],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-resources","tag-historical","tag-historical-map-collection","tag-topographic-maps","tag-u-s-geological-survey","tag-usgs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Explorer Makes Access to USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection Easy  - Mike&#039;s History Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I use this blog as a place to share my experiences while practicing the history craft. 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