The US Federal Government* owns nearly 650 million acres of land - nearly 30 percent of the land space of the United States.

These are lands which are held for all Americans.

Up until now, there has been no fast simple way to retrieve the boundaries of these properties with out carrying physical maps, books, or slowly digging deep online.

Included in this app are on system (fully works offline), individually selectable superbly coloured layers for most of the properties administered by the federal authorities:

- Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

- US Forest Service (FS)

- National Park Service (NPS)

- Army Corp of Engineers (ACOE)

- US Fish Wildlife Service

- Bureau of Reclamation

- Tennessee Valley Authority

- Department of Defense (military bases installations)

- Other (National Laboratories, Test Sites, and so on...)

Key Benefits Features

- Know which US agency owns and operates the land you are on or are heading to. Use the Layers icon to choose out which businesses you want exhibited to create your individual custom map. (Hint, the toggles are color coded to the color each layer is displayed in.)

- Links are offered to each company's web site within the app, so that you simply can additional your analysis as to what land use rules apply for each public land sort - such as permits, charges, activities allowed, and limits of stay.

- Map layers are stored on system - no web connection required.

- Be positive to activate the 'Basic' base map to see the US Public Land labels for every land space. This base map layer is also stored entirely on your gadget, and could be utilized when you wouldn't have an web connection or wish to conserve bandwidth.

- If you might have an web connection, you'll be able to make the most of normal and satellite view maps as properly as the base layer underneath the common public land overlays.

- A boondocker's assistant - While US Public Lands is not particularly a camp website locator and does not have a database of particular sites, by turning on the satellite view map, you'll have the ability to better scout out trails, roads and indicators of dispersed tenting locations inside the boundaries of the common public land resources.

- Quickly toggle between 'Show' and 'Hide' by way of the Map icon to extra clearly see satellite photographs below.

- If you have GPS entry on your system, click on the 'Locate Me' icon to point out your current location - know what kind of land you are on right now!

- Built in search tool locates anything on device maps helps (requires web access) - together with cities, states, zip codes, addresses and points of curiosity. A pin is dropped on the search location.

Thank you to the Protected Area Database (PAD-US) of the united states Geological Survey* for offering the public area raw map data that we’ve been in a position to make the most of to create this interactive overlayable mapping navigation device. We will replace our maps sooner or later to stay in sync with improvements to this information set.

Please note, the USGS PAD-US database incorporates the “most up-to-date aggregation of Federal lands and waters” obtainable, however this database remains to be evolving and some areas will not be listed and others might not have precisely correct boundaries. Resolution across the nation could vary. And at all times bear in mind - there could also be private unmapped inholdings inside any public lands - so at all times take notice of local signage, indications, and information.

The US Public Lands app should only be used as an outline, and you want to at all times confirm extra exact particulars by consulting native subject offices, administration web sites, and different assets. Do not solely depend on this app for figuring out in case you are on public or private land.

*The maps included in US Public Lands had been generated from knowledge supplied by the USGS. Two Steps Beyond isn't affiliated with, and does not characterize, the USGS or any other US Government Agency.