Who needs Google Earth? NASA and Japan just improved the most complete—and free—digital topographic map of Earth. The Japanese Advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, is ...

Matt Fox at Google Earth Library has just created a very impressive topographic map overlay for New Zealand. The imagery is lined up perfectly, and amazingly sharp. Matt grabbed all 455 maps from ...

The maps in question are historical topographic maps of the US from the USGS’s vast collection. USGS topoView The maps can be downloaded in various formats, including KMZ for viewing in Google ...

The 32-year-old Joyce has been working in this vein for a while and has an entire theory of what he does as "topographic art." It has proved to be a good marketing gimmick: A Google executive ...