Basic United States Maps

The maps downloadable from this page are not meant for use in a geographic information system. They are meant for use in word processors, computer presentations and graphic programs. There are a number of formats which you should be able to import into your program as a file, picture or piece of clip art. All the images have been compressed using the shareware program PKZIP.

Formats

Description Extension Download Links
Adobe Illustrator  .ai 1.1 version 128K
4.0 version 149K
Encapsulated Postscript Format .eps EPS files 258K
Freehand format files .fh7 or .fh4 Freehand version 4.0 146K
Freehand version 7.0 151K
Windows Metafiles .wmf WMF files 747K
Some other EPS and AI files misc.  Other files 1020K
Tag Image Format Tiff files .tif 72 dpi images 25K
200 dpi images 90K
300 dpi images 150K
600 dpi images 371K
Files within each zip file will have one of three names, MN.xxx, US.xxx or USMAPS.xxx. The xxx denotes one of the many file extensions listed at the top of this page.

The filename for this image will be called MN.xxx
Example of what a map file with the MN.xxx file name looks like.

The filename for this image will be called US.xxx
Example of what a map file with the US.xxx file name looks like.

The filename for this image will be called USMAPS.xxx
Example of what a map file with the USMAPS.xxx file name looks like.