{"id":121531,"date":"2011-02-03T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/usgs-historical-quadrangle-scanning-project\/"},"modified":"2011-02-03T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T02:00:00","slug":"usgs-historical-quadrangle-scanning-project","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/mapping\/usgs-historical-quadrangle-scanning-project","title":{"rendered":"USGS Historical Quadrangle Scanning Project"},"author":4331,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[38281,23211],"industry":[],"product":[],"class_list":["post-121531","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-general-information","tag-map-data"],"acf":{"short_description":"By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead\n\n\n\nThe U.S. Geological Survey, America's national mapping agency, announced recently that they are...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><strong>By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/MappingCenter2007\/blog\/Feb11Images\/quad_example_thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DDP thumbnail\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Geological Survey, America&#8217;s national mapping agency, <a title=\"USGS: Fact Sheet 2011\u20133009\" href=\"http:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/fs\/2011\/3009\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced recently<\/a> that they are scanning and georeferencing historical USGS quadrangles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <a title=\"USGS: HQSP\" href=\"http:\/\/nationalmap.gov\/ustopo\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Historical Quadrangle Scanning Project\u00a0(HQSP)<\/a> is scanning all scales and all editions of approximately 250,000 topographic maps published by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since the inception of the topographic mapping program in 1884. This scanning will provide a comprehensive digital repository of USGS topographic maps, available to the public at no cost. This project serves the dual purpose of creating a master catalog and digital archive copies of the irreplaceable collection of topographic maps in the USGS Reston Map Library as well as making the maps available for viewing and downloading from the <a title=\"USGS Store\" href=\"http:\/\/store.usgs.gov\/b2c_usgs\/b2c\/start\/(xcm=r3standardpitrex_prd)\/.do;jsessionid=(J2EE8933300)ID0843464353DB11271180893391252736End;saplb_*=(J2EE8933300)8933353\" target=\"_blank\">USGS Store<\/a> and <a title=\"The National Map Viewer\" href=\"http:\/\/viewer.nationalmap.gov\/viewer\/\" target=\"_blank\">The National Map Viewer<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For additional information contact:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"mailto: gjallord@usgs.gov\" href=\"mailto:gjallord@usgs.gov\" target=\"_blank\">G.J. 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