Digital Line Graphs

Digital Line Graphs (DLGs) are digital vector representations of cartographic information derived from USGS maps. The advantage to using DLGs in a GIS setting is that the vector features can be rendered at any scale, such that zooming in and out on the map does not change the quality of the topographic data representation.

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