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Country Profile: Liberia

Country Resources

Topographic
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Cote D’Ivoire 1:100,000 Scale Topographic Maps (DMA G654M)Defence Mapping Agency1:100,0002014 – 20145
Guinea 1:100,000 Scale Topographic Maps (DMA G641M)Defence Mapping Agency1:100,0002014 – 20146
Liberia 1:100,000 Scale Topographic Maps (DMA G644)Defence Mapping Agency1:100,0002014 – 201436
Sierra Leone 1:100,000 Scale Topographic Maps (DMA G642M)Defence Mapping Agency1:100,0002014 – 20143
Liberia 1:50,000 Scale Topographic Maps (LIB50)Liberian Cartographic Service1:50,0001983 – 198964
Liberia 1:100,000 Scale Photo MapsLiberian Cartographic Service1:100,0001989 – 19895

Geoscientific
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Cote d’Ivoire 1:1,000,000 Scale Geological MapDirection de la Géologie1:1,000,0001965 – 19651
Cote d’Ivoire 1:2,000,000 Scale Geological MapDirection des Mines de l’A.O.F1:2,000,0001953 – 19531
Sierra Leone 1:1,000,000 Scale Geological MapDirectorate of Surveys and Lands (Sierra Leone)1:1,000,0001948 – 19481
Liberia 1:1,000,000 Scale Geological MapsLiberian Geological Survey1:1,000,0001983 – 19831
Guinea 1:500,000 Scale Geological MapsRépublique de Guinée: Ministére des Mines, De la Géologie de L’Evnironment1:500,0001999 – 20042
Cote d’Ivoire 1:500,000 Scale Mineral Resources MapSociete pour le Developpement Miniere de la Cote d’Ivoire1:500,0001974 – 19744
Cote d’Ivoire 1:4,000,000 Scale Mineral Resources MapSociete pour le Developpement Miniere de la Cote d’Ivoire1:4,000,0001981 – 19811
Liberia 1:250,000 Scale Geological MapsUnited States Geological Survey1:250,0001977 – 19772

Thematic
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
The World 1:30,000,000 Scale Topographic Map Series 1145 (NGA)DMA1:30,000,0002

Global Census Archive: GIS Census Data

East View Geospatial has an ongoing effort to add GIS census data to our Global Census Archive program. Please contact us for the status and availability of Liberia census resources.


Global Resources

Topographic
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Soviet Military City PlansVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)Varies1944 – 20033017
Soviet Military 1:100,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:100,0001947 – 199924897
Soviet Military 1:200,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:200,0001949 – 200917799
Soviet Military 1:500,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:500,0001953 – 19983093

Nautical
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
NGA Nautical Charts POD Certified (All Scales)National Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyVaries1943 – 20134517

Aeronautical
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Joint Operations Graphic (JOG) 1:250,000 – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:250,0001958 – 20074204
Tactical Pilotage Chart (TPC) 1:500,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:500,0001967 – 2006598
Operational Navigation Chart (ONC) 1:1,000,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:1,000,0001969 – 2001243
Jet Navigation Chart (JNC) 1:2,000,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:2,000,0001971 – 1999117
Global Navigation and Planning Chart (GNC) 1:5,000,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:5,000,0001981 – 199927

Geoscientific
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Soviet Military 1:1,000,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:1,000,0001948 – 19941089

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Historical Country Mapping Information

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Topographic

The national mapping agency in Liberia is the Liberian Cartographic Service (LCS). This was established in 1951 with American aid and is responsible for geodetic, photogrammetric, topographic and cartographic surveying and mapping of the country. Until the 1970s almost all of the country’s topographic and geological mapping was produced in conjunction with American agencies. A 1:50,000 scale series provides the basic scale for most of the country. Sheets in the southwest were produced by the United States Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center (now National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)) in Series G744. These full-colored contoured maps were on the Transverse Mercator projection, Clarke 1880 ellipsoid and were printed with a UTM grid. Further blocks of maps on the same sheet lines, and projection, but using a six-color design and based on WGS 1972 ellipsoid, were produced between 1983 and 1989 by the British Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS), (now Ordnance Survey International (OSI)). These Series LIB50 sheets extended coverage to northern, north eastern and other southern areas, so that 102 out of a potential 160 sheets are now available. Other DOS mapping was published in the 1980s, as 1:100,000 scale uncontoured dyeline prints covering seven half-degree quadrangles in the east of the country. Other smaller scale coverage includes an uncontoured three-color 1:250,000 scale series, showing relief with hill-shading and published by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

Soviet military topographic mapping of Liberia is available at the following scales: 1:1,000,000 (2 sheets, complete coverage, published in 1986); 1:500,000 (5 sheets, complete coverage, published 1984-1985) and 1:200,000 (24 sheets, complete coverage, published in 1985). These sheets are available in print, digital raster and digital vector GIS formats from East View Geospatial.

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Geological/Scientific

The Liberian Geological Survey (LGS) was established in 1963 and like LCS has relied upon overseas aid in its mapping programs. 1:250,000 scale earth science mapping was produced in the 1970s by USGS on 1:250,000 topographic sheet lines. Four themes were published: a full color geological map with explanatory notes; a two-color series showing Bouguer gravity anomalies; contoured aeromagnetic anomaly maps and sheets showing total gamma count variation. 1:1,000,000 scale geophysical mapping was also published in conjunction with USGS for six themes.

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Atlas

A thematic atlas of the country from the Ministry of Planning and Development incorporates 1:1,000,000 scale single-sheet maps, focusing in the main upon economic and development planning.

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Cadaster

Town mapping projects in the 1960s and 1970s resulted in colored 1:7,500 scale photomaps of Monrovia, Roberts Field, and Buchanan. 1:1,000 scale cadastral coverage of the capital has been updated several times, and 1:5,000 scale line and image mapping of seven other towns was compiled under British aid programs in the 1980s.

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Tourist/Reference

The German Technische Fachhochschule Universität Karlsruhe recently published a useful small scale map of the country.

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