USGS Geography: Viewing USGS Maps and Aerial Photo Images Online

The links below will take you to selected USGS Business Partner Program (BP) and Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) partner sites where you may view USGS maps and aerial photo images from your Web browser.

Microsoft TerraServer

Resulting from cooperative research by the USGS and Microsoft Corporation, the TerraServer provides free online access to USGS digital aerial photographs, known as digital orthophoto quadrangles, and to digital topographic maps, known as digital raster graphics. To learn more about these products, visit the USGS Digital Backyard. (CRADA)

MapMart.com by IntraSearch, Inc.

Online ordering of Digital Mapping and Aerial Photography. Specializing in USGS products – DLGs, DEMs, DRGs, and DOQQs – as well as custom mapping. (BP)

Maptech MapServer by Maptech, Inc.

Maptech's MapServer: Free. View, mark locations with an icon, link the icon to any URL, save your icon's location in your personalized "My Maps," and share that with a friend or colleague. Also, print and e-mail USGS topographic maps, digital orthophoto quadrangles, aero charts and NOAA nautical charts online. Maptech's MapServer allows access to the largest online database of NOAA digital charts and USGS maps available in the world. (BP)

TerraFly by TerraFly.com at Florida International University

TerraFly is an interactive "fly-over" application designed to aid in the dissemination and visualization of geospatial data via the Internet. The incorporation of USGS data could make TerraFly one of the largest databases on the Internet. TerraFly will show the user a new and innovative way to explore their digital earth. (CRADA)

TopoZone by Maps a la carte, Inc.

TopoZone provides an interactive interface which allows users to view a seamless topographic map and feature database of the entire United States, based on digital raster graphics. The site is accessible to anyone with an industry standard Web browser at no charge. (BP)

Earth as Art, by LookClickPrint, Inc.

The USGS recently signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), with LookClickPrint, Inc., to develop premium quality reproductions of Landsat 7 images from the USGS "Earth as Art" image collection. (CRADA)

If you are a USGS Business or Cooperative Research and Development Partner, and have an online service which may meet the criteria for being listed on this page, please contact the USGS Geography Webmaster.