Editing Topographic map (section)

==Publishers of national topographic map series==
{{see also|National mapping agency|Map series}}
Although virtually the entire terrestrial surface of Earth has been mapped at scale 1:1,000,000, medium and large-scale mapping has been accomplished intensively in some countries and much less in others.<ref>{{cite conference
 |url         = http://icaci.org/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC1999/Print%20PDF/ICA01.pdf
 |title       = Cartography, Digital Transitions, and Questions of History
 |first       = John
 |last        = Pickles
 |conference  = International Cartographic Association, 1999
 |location    = Ottawa
 |page        = 17
 |access-date  = 29 June 2011
|url-status  = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20111123000016/http://icaci.org/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC1999/Print%20PDF/ICA01.pdf
 |archive-date = 23 November 2011
}}</ref> Several commercial vendors supply international topographic map series.

According to 2007/2/EC [[Directive (European Union)|European directive]], national mapping agencies of [[European Union]] countries must have publicly available services for searching, viewing and downloading their official map series.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 January 2022 |title=L_2007108EN.01000101.xml |url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32007L0002&from=EN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119034253/http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32007L0002&from=EN |archive-date=19 January 2022  |access-date=3 August 2022 }}</ref> Topographic maps produced by some of them are available under a [[free license]] that allows re-use, such as a [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons]] license.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Spanish IGN products license (in Spanish) |url=https://www.ign.es/resources/licencia/Condiciones_licenciaUso_IGN.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506084419/https://www.ign.es/resources/licencia/Condiciones_licenciaUso_IGN.pdf |archive-date=6 May 2022  |access-date=3 August 2022 }}</ref>