NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth Monday that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with detailed measurements from NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The ...

This is pretty nifty: a new elevation map of the Earth has just been released by NASA and Japan. It’s a “significantly improved” version of one that came out in 2009. It uses Japan’s ASTER, the ...

A couple of days ago, a Google Earth Community member called ‘Forkboy2’ made an awesome post of a network link which will provide access to hundreds of maps on his Topographical Maps Archive web site.

We have in the past looked at a lot of content provided by the USGS. The USGS is the provider of the data for the ‘earthquakes layer’ in Google Earth. We also looked at some of their future plans, ...