Do not the name fool you, the USGS National Map Viewer is more than simply a place to look at a map. The USGS National Map Viewer lets you pick from a huge library of datasets to display on a map. If thats not enough to get you to try the USGS National Map Viewer, I must likewise inform you that you can draw on the maps, procedure on the maps, and print your personalized map displays.

Earlier this year I highlighted the
galleries of free to use and re-use media that the USGS hosts. When I discovered something new to me, earlier this week I was back on the USGS site looking in those galleries. That something is the
USGS National Map Viewer..

Applications for Education.
The USGS National Map Viewer could be a terrific tool for trainees to utilize to make visual connections between the details provided in a dataset and the locations referenced in those datasets. In the video above I used the earthquake faults dataset to the map so that trainees can see where there is more or less seismic activity in the United States. On a related note, heres a nearly realtime USGS map of the current seismic activity all over the world.