Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Rhode Island Wins Broadband Mapping Federal Grant


WASHINGTON - The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced that it has awarded 15 grants to fund broadband mapping and planning activities in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Tennessee under NTIA's State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program.

Friday, December 11, 2009

USGS has a new type of topo map called "US Topo"

We highly recommend that you click on http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/quickstart.pdf to download a really easy tutorial on how to access these new free (for download) topo maps. They are VERY different from past topo maps in that they are delivered in GeoPDF format, and contain an orthophoto backdrop!