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The USGS topo maps are awesome … especially when using them for the outdoors or doing historical research. The maps contain a great deal of information on public lands, national parks, nature preserves and most other United States public lands The highlighted features include: trails, amenities, ranger stations, boundaries, elevation data, bathymetry, roads, contour lines, and hill shading, etc. Even better the USGS has topo maps going all the way back to the year 1882....

I have decided to embark on creating an outdoor mapping product. Why I love maps. As a software engineer for over 20 years, I always wanted to learn maps & geospatial… what better way than to make my own mapping app and self host maps? All of the other mapping apps that I have tried, while really great, contain missing functionality or tons of bloatware as noted below. Goals Build a simple, private, and secure outdoor mapping platform....