Google Maps has exciting details about locations around the world. One of the most valuable things to learn about an area is ...

It raised the base flood elevation for most of that area from 6 feet to 7 feet, according to the flood zone map. That means any new construction project in the zone must have a ground floor ...

A new analysis using highly detailed elevation maps of the Chesapeake Bay suggests that North America's extensive areas of low-lying rural land will allow coastal marshes to persist or even expand ...

S7. Topographic information at a 1 arc-sec scale (∼ 30-m) obtained from the US Geological Survey National Map Seamless Server was used to generate a 1-km scale digital elevation model to match ...

The popular mapping service will tell you elevation changes on your ... show up on every trip we threw at Maps, and that a few directions simply told us if the route would be flat or steep.