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The National Atlas of the United States is a collaborative Federal effort to make authoritative, integrated geographic information easier to find, get, and use by American citizens. It includes documented datasets, Web map services, hardcopy wall maps, softcopy page-sized printable maps, multimedia articles, and dynamic maps. The National Atlas staff members also maintain fully integrated cartographic frameworks for the Nation and is currently integrating these with similar data from Canada and Mexico. The National Atlas of the United States supplies this Nation's small-scale frameworks for the Environmental Atlas of North America and the Global Map.

The National Atlas contributes to our knowledge of the environmental, resource, demographic, economic, social, political, and historical dimensions of American life. It includes products and services designed to stimulate children and adults to visualize and understand complex relationships between environments, places, and people. Unlike the previous Atlas, this version is largely in digital format. With a web browser and Internet connection, users are able to make their own personal maps. Multimedia and printed maps, as well as metadata and scientific articles are also available.

The USGS Topo base map service from The National Map is a combination of contours, shaded relief, woodland and urban tint, along with vector layers, such as geographic names, governmental unit boundaries, hydrography, structures, and transportation, to provide a composite topographic base map. Data sources are the National Atlas for small scales, and The National Map for medium to large scales.

The National Atlas of the United States is designed to make authoritative geographic information easier to find, get, and use by citizens. It fosters a general understanding of broad geographic patterns, trends, and conditions through the delivery of eight different products and services intended for educated public audiences and for professional users of geospatial data, documentation, and services. These include vector data at scales of 1:1,000,00 and smaller and images at resolutions of 100 meters and greater.

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) actively seeks data from and partnerships with Government agencies at all levels and other interested organizations. The GNIS is the Federal standard for geographic nomenclature. The U.S. Geological Survey developed the GNIS for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, a Federal inter-agency body chartered by public law to maintain uniform feature name usage throughout the Government and to promulgate standard names to the public. The GNIS is the official repository of domestic geographic names data; the official vehicle for geographic names use by all departments of the Federal Government; and the source for applying geographic names to Federal electronic and printed products of all types. See http://geonames.usgs.gov for additional information.

The USGS Topo base map service from The National Map is a combination of contours, shaded relief, woodland and urban tint, along with vector layers, such as geographic names, governmental unit boundaries, hydrography, structures, and transportation, to provide a composite topographic base map. Data sources are the National Atlas for small scales, and The National Map for medium to large scales.

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) actively seeks data from and partnerships with Government agencies at all levels and other interested organizations. The GNIS is the Federal standard for geographic nomenclature. The U.S. Geological Survey developed the GNIS for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, a Federal inter-agency body chartered by public law to maintain uniform feature name usage throughout the Government and to promulgate standard names to the public. The GNIS is the official repository of domestic geographic names data; the official vehicle for geographic names use by all departments of the Federal Government; and the source for applying geographic names to Federal electronic and printed products of all types. See http://geonames.usgs.gov for additional information.

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) actively seeks data from and partnerships with Government agencies at all levels and other interested organizations. The GNIS is the Federal standard for geographic nomenclature. The U.S. Geological Survey developed the GNIS for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, a Federal inter-agency body chartered by public law to maintain uniform feature name usage throughout the Government and to promulgate standard names to the public. The GNIS is the official repository of domestic geographic names data; the official vehicle for geographic names use by all departments of the Federal Government; and the source for applying geographic names to Federal electronic and printed products of all types. See http://geonames.usgs.gov for additional information.

National Atlas - Central Pacific States

Zip file containing several files with the base cartography of the World, at scale 1: 60,000,000, of the Information System of the National Atlas of Spain (SIANE). A more detailed description of each layer (attributes, associations, etc.) is provided in the Geographic Information Layers Catalog (geographic object types). Access to the catalogue: http://centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/documentos/InformacionCartografiaSIANE.zip Access to the product Base mapping of the National Atlas of Spain (CartoBase ANE): http://centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDownloads/search.do?filtro.codFamily=CAANE

This is a 1:2,000,000 coverage of streams for the conterminous United States.

streams

Zip file containing several files with the basic cartography of Spain, at scale 1:3.000.000, of the Information System of the National Atlas of Spain (SIANE). A more detailed description of each layer (attributes, associations, etc.) is provided in the Geographic Information Layers Catalog (geographic object types). Access to the catalogue: http://centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/documentos/InformacionCartografiaSIANE.zip Access to the product Base mapping of the National Atlas of Spain (CartoBase ANE): http://centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDownloads/search.do?filtro.codFamily=CAANE

Fishery-independent data from the Federal/State/University cooperative Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program (SEAMAP) and the National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center were used to generate maps of station locations, sampling effort and distribution and abundance of selected fish, shark and invertebrate species. The map layers for each species were summarized from SEAMAP Fall Plankton (1986-2016), SEAMAP Summer and Fall Bottom Trawl (1987-2018), SEAMAP Reef Fish Video (1995-2017) and NMFS Bottom Longline (2001-2018) surveys. Species specific information may be documented for a single or multiple surveys dependent upon available data.

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The Atlas of Canada National Scale Data 1:1,000,000 Series consists of boundary, coast, island, place name, railway, river, road, road ferry and waterbody data sets that were compiled to be used for atlas large scale (1:1,000,000 to 1:4,000,000) mapping. These data sets have been integrated so that their relative positions are cartographically correct. Any data outside of Canada included in the data sets is strictly to complete the context of the data.

Contained within the Atlas of Canada's Reference Map Series, 1961 to 2010, is the 2000 version of a regularly-updated map of the National Atlas of Canada Base Map Series and shows North America at a scale of 1: 10 000 000. The map is a general reference map giving detailed coverage of populated places, transportation routes and the drainage network. Land areas are coloured to represent individual countries and dependencies, whereas offshore areas are coloured to show bathymetry. The map sheet has two inset maps: one is an inset for Hawaii, also at 1: 10 000 000; the second is a 1: 53 000 000 inset of North America showing relief, and noting significant mountain elevations. There is also a table of road mileages between major cities. Only a French version of this map is available.

Contained within the Atlas of Canada 8.5x11 series maps is a map which was prepared by three mapping agencies in cooperation with the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). The CEC is located on Montreal and was created by Canada, Mexico and the United States under the North American Agreement on environmental Cooperation (NAAEC). The three mapping agencies involved are The Atlas of Canada, The National Atlas of the United States and the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI) of Mexico. The map shows populated places, transportation routes, hydrography, bathymetry and political boundaries for all of North America. The scale of the map is 1:10 000 000 and it uses the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area Projection. Many hydrographic and political names are shown in English, French and Spanish.

The Atlas of Canada National Scale Data 1:5,000,000 Series consists of boundary, coast, island, place name, railway, river, road, road ferry and waterbody data sets that were compiled to be used for atlas medium scale (1:5,000,000 to 1:15,000,000) mapping. These data sets have been integrated so that their relative positions are cartographically correct. Any data outside of Canada included in the data sets is strictly to complete the context of the data.

The 100-meter resolution grayscale shaded relief data were developed to portray the terrain of the United States at 1:1,000,000 scale. They are intended primarily for visual purposes. The original NED data should be used for conducting analysis and determining the most accurate elevation values. No responsibility is assumed by the National Atlas of the United States in the use of these data.