{"id":1989,"date":"2017-10-13T11:08:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T16:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2017-10-13T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T16:09:10","slug":"atlas-of-the-week-usgs-topographic-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/2017\/10\/13\/atlas-of-the-week-usgs-topographic-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlas of the Week: USGS Topographic Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week\u2019s atlas is the United States Geological Survey\u2019s National Map, a collection of 7.5 minute topographic maps.\u00a0 Produced from GIS (Geographic Information Systems) databases, these maps, called quadrangles, show the roads, elevation, and bodies of water of every square inch in the United States.\u00a0 The maps are all to the same scale (1:24,000) and can be easily downloaded or purchased. \u00a0All the user has to do is type in the zip code or city that they would like to see and click \u201cGo\u201d. \u00a0The database then returns all available current (as of 2016) and historical maps for that area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.nationalmap.gov\/basic\/?basemap=b1&amp;category=ustopo&amp;title=US%20Topo%20Download#startUp\">USGS National Map<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s atlas is the United States Geological Survey\u2019s National Map, a collection of 7.5 minute topographic maps.\u00a0 Produced from GIS (Geographic Information Systems) databases, these maps, called quadrangles, show the roads, elevation, and bodies of water of every square &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/2017\/10\/13\/atlas-of-the-week-usgs-topographic-maps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}