This site provides free access to Iowa geographic map data, including aerial photography, orthophotos, elevation maps, and historical maps. The data is available through an on-line map viewer and through Web Map Service (WMS) connections for GIS. The site was developed by the Iowa State University Geographic Information Systems Support and Research Facility in cooperation with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This site was first launched in March 1999.

Nestled at the base of the San Francisco Peaks, the City of Flagstaff blends with a backdrop of nearly 2 million acres of Ponderosa pine forests, volcanic rock formations, and alpine meadows. This map shows Flagstaff's built and natural environments from 30,000', enhanced with 3D structures, terrain, simulated lighting, and true-elevation line features including roadways, trails, and waterways. Several layers of imagery, basemaps, and layered color blending modes are introduced to provide stylistic contrast between the natural and the built while emphasizing northern Arizona's beautiful mountains, mesas, and canyons.Other Information:Basemaps... ESRI/USGS/NASARoadways... OpenStreetMapWaterways... USGSBoundaries... US Census BureauStructures... FEMA

This prototype web map provides a detailed vector basemap with a monochromatic style and content adjusted to support physical geography information. It is designed to work with any of the world hillshade layers available in the ArcGIS Living Atlas.The web map consists of 3 vector tile layers:A reference layer including administrative boundaries, and labels for cities and communities, countries, administrative units, and at larger scales, streets.A detail reference layer including transportation, water bodies, and at larger scales, buildings. This layer is designed to be used with a high degree of transparency so that the detail does not compete with your information. It is set at approximately 60% in this web map, but can be adjusted.A simple base layer consisting of land areas in white, to act as a mask in certain circumstances.The layers in this map provide unique capabilities for customization, high-resolution display, and offline use in mobile devices: They are built using the same data sources used for the Light Gray Canvas and other Esri basemaps. Use the Vector Tile Style Editor to make changes to your own copies.Note: In the current configuration, this basemap is designed for use with Map Viewer.This map was designed and created by Andrew Skinner.

A map showing down-welling eddy frequency in Solomon Islands EEZ. The map was created by MACBIO as resource for the bioregions workshop in Feb 2018. Data is based on Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS).

Several maps showing a number of different chemical properties of the ocean, like nitrate concentration, oxygen concentration, ph, phosphate concentration, inorganic carbon concentration, Particulate organic carbon concentration, silicate concentration, surface temperature, radiation availability, mixed layer depth, phytoplankton concentration, available radiation and productivitiy. These maps were developed by MACBIO as resource for the bioregions workshop in Feb 2018.

Author: Dawn Nixon, educatorGrade/Audience: high schoolResource type: activitySubject topic(s): physical geography, geographic thinkingRegion: worldStandards: Texas World Geography TEKS (3) Geography. The student understands how physical processes shape patterns in the physical environment. The student is expected to:

(B) describe the physical processes that affect the environments of regions, including weather, tectonic forces, erosion, and soil-building processes; and

(C) describe how physical processes such as hurricanes, El Niño, earthquakes, and volcanoes affect the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.Objectives: Students will create a story map using atlases and/or textbook information to show how physical processes impact HEI. Summary: This story map helps students understand the connections between physical processes and human environment interaction.

World framework data from Intergraph Corporation

Minnesota's original public land survey plat maps were created between 1848 and 1907 during the first government land survey of the state by the U.S. Surveyor General's Office. This collection of more than 3,600 maps includes later General Land Office (GLO) and Bureau of Land Management maps up through 2001. Scanned images of the maps are available in several digital formats and most have been georeferenced.

The survey plat maps, and the accompanying survey field notes, serve as the fundamental legal records for real estate in Minnesota; all property titles and descriptions stem from them. They also are an essential resource for surveyors and provide a record of the state's physical geography prior to European settlement. Finally, they testify to many years of hard work by the surveying community, often under very challenging conditions.

The deteriorating physical condition of the older maps (drawn on paper, linen, and other similar materials) and the need to provide wider public access to the maps, made handling the original records increasingly impractical. To meet this challenge, the Office of the Secretary of State (SOS), the State Archives of the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS), the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), MnGeo and the Minnesota Association of County Surveyors collaborated in a digitization project which produced high quality (800 dpi), 24-bit color images of the maps in standard TIFF, JPEG and PDF formats - nearly 1.5 terabytes of data. Funding was provided by MnDOT.

In 2010-11, most of the JPEG plat map images were georeferenced. The intent was to locate the plat images to coincide with statewide geographic data without appreciably altering (warping) the image. This increases the value of the images in mapping software where they can be used as a background layer.

A clickable map interface to SID images of 250K topographic maps of Australia produced by AUSLIG.

NWI digital data files are records of wetlands _location and classification as developed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The classification system was adopted as a national classification standard in 1996 by the Federal Geographic Data Committee.The NWI maps do not show all wetlands since the maps are derived from aerial photointerpretation with varying limitations due to scale, photo quality, inventory techniques, and other factors. Consequently, the maps tend to show wetlands that are readily photointerpreted given consideration of photo and map scale.

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales (1:10m version is stored in the EEA-SDI). Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth one can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software. Natural Earth was built through a collaboration of many volunteers and is supported by NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society), and is free for use in any type of project. The carefully generalized linework maintains consistent, recognizable geographic shapes at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales. Natural Earth was built from the ground up in order for all data layers align precisely with one another. For example, where rivers and country borders are one and the same, the lines are coincident. Most data contain embedded feature names, which are ranked by relative importance. Other attributes facilitate faster map production, such as width attributes assigned to river segments for creating tapers.

Cultural vector data themes: + Countries + Disputed areas and breakaway regions + First order admin + Populated places + Urban polygons + Parks and protected areas

             + Pacific nation groupings

• Water boundary indicators

Physical vector data themes: + Coastline + Land

             + Ocean

• Minor islands
• Reefs
• Physical region features
• Rivers and lake centerlines
• Lakes + Glaciated areas
• Antarctic ice shelves
• Bathymetry
• Geographic lines
• Graticules

Author: Ann Wurst, consultantGrade/Audience: high schoolResource type: activitySubject topic(s): physical geography, geographic thinkingRegion: worldStandards: Texas World Geography TEKS (3) Geography. The student understands how physical processes shape patterns in the physical environment. The student is expected to: (A) explain weather conditions and climate in relation to annual changes in Earth-Sun relationships; Objectives: Students will be able to show understandin of how physical processes shape patterns in the physical environment. Students will be able to explain climate in relation to annual changes in Earth-Sun relationships; Summary: Students will map the major world climates and connect climates to locations around the world.

This dataset includes high quality (800 Dots Per Inch - DPI), 24 bit color images of Minnesota's original Public Land Survey (PLS) plats created during the first government land survey of the state from 1848 to 1907. Currently housed at the Office of the Secretary of State, these plats were created by the U.S. Surveyor General's Office. This collection of more than 3,600 maps also includes later General Land Office (GLO) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) maps - up to the year 2001.

Minnesota's survey plat maps serve as the fundamental legal records for real estate in the state; all property titles and descriptions stem from them. They also serve as an essential resource for surveyors and as an analytical tool for the state's physical geography prior to European settlement. Finally, they serve as a testimony to years and years of hard work by the surveying community, often under challenging conditions.

In recent years the deteriorating physical condition of the older maps and the needs of technologically more sophisticated researchers, who require access to the maps, have made handling the original paper records increasingly less practical. To meet this challenge, the Office of the Secretary of State, the State Archives of the Minnesota Historical Society, the Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnGeo (formerly the Land Management Information Center - LMIC) and the Minnesota Association of County Surveyors collaborated in a digitization project which produced images of the maps in standard TIFF, JPEG and PDF formats - nearly 1.5 terabytes worth of data. Funding was provided by the Minnesota Department of Transportation.

This dataset presents the first Landsat-based map of the vegetation cover for the Perm region (Russia). Initial Landsat images were obtained in 2016-2020. The map building technique is based on the supervised classification of satellite images and subsequent post-processing. This technique involves the use of a number of additional sources, in particular, long-term data on forest disturbances, as well as reforestation areas on abandoned agricultural land. Finally, a map with a spatial resolution of 30 m (which corresponds to a scale of 1:100,000) has been created. The map legend includes 19 thematic classes, 11 of them contain the information on forest vegetation. Previously compiled global Landsat-based datasets namely Global Forest Change (Hansen et al., 2013), Global Surface Water (Pekel et al., 2016) and Global cropland extent (Potapov et al., 2021) were used co identify the classes of forest loss areas, water surface and croplands.

Author: J Trygestad, educator, Minnesota Alliance for Geographic EducationGrade/Audience: grade 4, grade 5, grade 6, grade 7, grade 8Resource type: lessonSubject topic(s): physical geography, mapsRegion: north americaStandards: Minnesota Social Studies Standards

Standard 1. People use geographic representations and geospatial technologies to acquire, process and report information within a spatial context. Objectives: Students will be able to:

1. Read a map identifying its details.
2. Make inferences about a map. Summary: This lesson will help students analyze the map and become acquainted with its details. This lesson may also be applied to other lessons involving map reading and analysis, selecting one of the strategies depending on the age of the students and amount of time allowed.

This web map consists of vector tile layers that form a detailed basemap for the world, featuring a neutral style with content adjusted to support environment, landscape, natural resources, hydrologic and physical geography layers. The layers in this map provide unique capabilities for customization, high-resolution display and offline use in mobile devices. They are built using the same data sources used for other Esri basemaps.This web map consists of 4 vector tile layers: A vector tile reference layer for the world with administrative boundaries and labels; populated places with names; ocean names; topographic features; and rail, road, park, school, and hospital labels. A vector tile surface water layer for the world with rivers, lakes, streams, and canals with respective labels. A vector tile watersheds boundaries. A vector tile base layer for the world with vegetation, parks, farming areas, open space, indigenous lands, military bases, bathymetry, large scale contours, elevation values, airports, zoos, golf courses, cemeteries, hospitals, schools, urban areas, and building footprints. Designed by Emily Meriam, this map can be used as a basemap for overlaying other layers of information or as a stand-alone reference map. You can add layers to this web map and save as your own map. Fully display the content of this multisource map using Map Viewer, or current versions of Runtime and ArcGIS Pro. Customize this MapCustomize vector tile layers in this map using the Vector Tile Style Editor to change style, content, symbology, and fonts. Additional details are available in ArcGIS Online Blogs and the Esri Vector Basemaps Reference Document.

This is the complete digital dataset for the project 'Archaeological forecast map for the flood plains in the river area', carried out by Deltares, the University of Groningen and Utrecht University, on behalf of Rijkswaterstaat and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. When using the digital files (pdf, shapes, grids, catalogs and databases), the following source reference must be placed: K.M. Cohen, S. Arnoldussen, G. Erkens, Y.T. from Popta & L.J. Taal 2014: Archaeological forecast map for river flood plains. Deltares, University of Groningen & Utrecht University. Downloaded on [date] from www.dans.knaw.nl

The Environment Map (US Edition) web map consists of vector tile layers that form a detailed basemap for the world, featuring a neutral style with content adjusted to support environment, landscape, natural resources, hydrologic and physical geography layers. The layers in this map provide unique capabilities for customization, high-resolution display and offline use in mobile devices. They are built using the same data sources used for other Esri basemaps.This basemap is available in the United States Vector Basemaps gallery and consists of 4 vector tile layers and one raster tile layer: The Environment Detail and Label (US Edition) vector tile reference layer for the world with administrative boundaries and labels; populated places with names; ocean names; topographic features; and rail, road, park, school, and hospital labels. The Environment Surface Water and Label vector tile surface water layer for the world with rivers, lakes, streams, and canals with respective labels. The Environment Watersheds vector tile layer that provides watersheds boundaries. The Environment Base multisource base layer for the world with vegetation, parks, farming areas, open space, indigenous lands, military bases, bathymetry, large scale contours, elevation values, airports, zoos, golf courses, cemeteries, hospitals, schools, urban areas, and building footprints. World Hillshade raster tile layerThe vector tile layers in this web map are built using the same data sources used for other Esri Vector Basemaps. For details on data sources contributed by the GIS community, view the map of Community Maps Basemap Contributors. Esri Vector Basemaps are updated monthly.Use this MapThis map is designed to be used as a basemap for overlaying other layers of information or as a stand-alone reference map. You can add layers to this web map and save as your own map. If you like, you can add this web map to a custom basemap gallery for others in your organization to use in creating web maps. If you would like to add this map as a layer in other maps you are creating, you may use the tile layers referenced in this map.

A Map of the Eastern Pacific Ocean and surrounding countries scanned and fitted to modern map co-ordinates by volunteers at the Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney. Sydney, 2001

topographic map vector data