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This has been available for a long time.

Another useful site is http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ which is a Google Maps like interface that allows downloading map data, topos, and other data files.

There's also some web APIs available for retrieving and querying the data at http://basemap.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services

The Libre Map Project has a copy of the data (they were really hard to find for a while) and allows searching for feature names and downloading TIFFs of USGS quadrangles, TFW files, and TIGER files.

http://libremap.org/data/




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