We offer a variety of digital outline maps for use in various graphics, illustration, or office software.

The map graphics available for download have been derived from several common layers of digital GIS data. All of the statewide GIS data layers used were processed by state agencies and exist in the Wisconsin Transverse Mercator coordinate system. State agency GIS data are officially described in geospatial metadata. We have linked the graphic titles below to summaries of their source information metadata.

Each of the counties in the Adobe Illustrator (AI) and Corel Draw (CDR) file types is encoded as a closed polygons. Therefore, individual counties can be selected, filled with colors and patterns, or extruded a vector graphics software package.

There are three other file types available: TIFF, PNG, and BMP. TIFF, PNG, and BMP are standard compressed graphic formats that can be opened in most viewers, word processors, and in ESRI's ArcView. BMP and PNG files are bitmaps or raster images and can only be changed using a "paint" program. Depending on the editing software's features, the user may have the capability to increase or decrease the line weight and fill in county areas of the TIFF.

All of the following maps may be downloaded in a ZIP file. Click the file size corresponding to the desired file type to download.

Click on the title to learn about the source data through metadata.