Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

News

Browse or search the repository below for National Geospatial Program (NGP) news, announcements, events, project updates, and more.

Filter Total Items: 430
Collaboration in a Disaster

Collaboration in a Disaster

To illustrate the USGS and FEMA working together in the 2016 Louisiana flood response, the agency has released an interactive Story Map.

Read Article
Mapping Challenge: Illinois Schools

Mapping Challenge: Illinois Schools

The National Map Corps is requesting volunteer assistance to verify geographic information related to education structures in Illinois.

Read Article
Mapping Challenge: Illinois Schools

Mapping Challenge: Illinois Schools

The National Map Corps is requesting volunteer assistance to verify geographic information related to education structures in Illinois.

Read Article
Mapping Public Lands in the United States

Mapping Public Lands in the United States

The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the official inventory of public parks and other protected areas in all U.S. states and...

Read Article
The 3D Elevation Program and America's Infrastructure

The 3D Elevation Program and America's Infrastructure

The USGS is seeing a dramatic increase in the use of 3D geospatial data for infrastructure planning, modeling and construction

Read Article
Exploring the Nation's waterways through the National Hydrography Dataset Plus

Exploring the Nation's waterways through the National Hydrography Dataset Plus

Interested in finding a good river to float down this hot summer? Or a favorite fishing hole? Ever wonder where those blue lines mapping the rivers...

Read Article
Volunteering to Map the Nation

Volunteering to Map the Nation

As the USGS continues to celebrate “Mapping Month”, we again promote noteworthy contributors to The National Map Corps “crowdsourcing” project.

Read Article
Alaska Mapping Update

Alaska Mapping Update

The USGS continues to collect high resolution elevation data, contributing to greatly improved Alaska map data

Read Article
Challenge Accepted

Challenge Accepted

USGS crowd-sourcing project volunteers have updated more than 1,200 Post Office locations and data in Illinois

Read Article
Landslide Assistance from the Air

Landslide Assistance from the Air

The USGS uses cutting edge technologies to investigate and forecast landslides and other natural hazards.

Read Article
Historical Maps at Your Fingertips

Historical Maps at Your Fingertips

Earlier this month, the USGS launched “TopoView 2.1”, an enhancement to the current popular TopoView mapping service that lets users discover...

Read Article
Volunteering for Science

Volunteering for Science

Citizen Scientists edit structures to improve US Topo Maps and along the way earn virtual badges.

Read Article