Heh…”Supervisor Besch was concerned the county was spending $500,000 to make certain tasks faster and more efficient, but not expecting [to] save any money by reducing employees.”

“KML, or Keyhole Markup Language, is an XML grammar and file format for modeling and storing geographic features such as points, lines, images and polygons for display in the Google Earth Client.”

2-layered maps with street view + satellite view

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 11,000 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials.

The USGS Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data files are digital representations of cartographic information in a raster form. DEMs consist of a sampled array of elevations for a number of ground positions at regularly spaced intervals.