description: This map is designed to be used as a basemap by GIS professionals and as a reference map by anyone. The map includes
administrative boundaries, cities, water features, physiographic features, parks, landmarks, highways, roads, railways, and
airports overlaid on land cover and shaded relief imagery for added context. The map provides coverage for the world down
to a scale of ~1:72k. Coverage is provided down to ~1:4k for the following areas: Australia and New Zealand; India; Europe;
Canada; Mexico; the continental United States and Hawaii; South America and Central America; Africa; and most of the Middle
East. Coverage down to ~1:1k and ~1:2k is available in select urban areas. This basemap was compiled from a variety of best
available sources from several data providers, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), U.S. National Park Service (NPS), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Department
of Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN), GeoBase, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, DeLorme, HERE, Esri, OpenStreetMap contributors,
and the GIS User Community. For more information on this map, including the terms of use, visit us <a href="http://goto.arcgisonline.com/maps/World_Topo_Map
" target="_new" >online</a>.; abstract: topographic, topography, administrative boundaries, cities, water features, physiographic
features, parks, landmarks, highways, roads, railways, airports, land cover, shaded relief imageryimageryBaseMapsEarthCover
(Imagery, basemaps, and land cover)Citations
notes: This metadata record was generated by an xslt transformation from a dc metadata record; Transform by Stephen M. Richard, based
on a transform by Damian Ulbricht. Run on 2018-05-31T16:49:04-07:00