The National Atlas of the United States of America

The National Atlas of the United States is a collaborative Federal effort to make authoritative, integrated geographic information easier to find, get, and use by American citizens. It includes documented datasets, Web map services, hardcopy wall maps, softcopy page-sized printable maps, multimedia articles, and dynamic maps. The National Atlas staff members also maintain fully integrated cartographic frameworks for the Nation and is currently integrating these with similar data from Canada and Mexico. The National Atlas of the United States supplies this Nation's small-scale frameworks for the Environmental Atlas of North America and the Global Map.