Google Earth Topographic Maps. In addition to the standard image overlays of Map Satellite and Hybrid for Google Maps the Active Trails website has an additional overlay button Topo for topographic maps. This is a quick and simple method that works great.
4 Find and double-click the file. 2 Download the Google Earth topo map layer from the ArcGIS Services Directory its the NGS Topo US 2D MapServer file. 3 When prompted save the file to your computer.
2 Download the Google Earth topo map layer from the ArcGIS Services Directory its the USA_Topo_Maps MapServer service.
In addition to the standard image overlays of Map Satellite and Hybrid for Google Maps the Active Trails website has an additional overlay button Topo for topographic maps. 4 Find and double-click the file. The following video shows how to download Topographic Maps from Google Earth. Update 11282011 Seamless Topo Maps I have released a seamless version without the map borders version of the USGS Topographic Map layer for Google Earth.
