Column-density maps of the Polaris and Aquila regions derived from Herschel dust emission data previously analyzed by André et al. (2010), Schneider et al. (2013), and Könyves et al. (2015). As the map of Polaris includes the celestial pole, coordinates are given relative to 3^h 28^m 16.0^s, 88°34′ 32.0″ (J2000). One degree in the map corresponds to 2.6 pc in Polaris and 4.5 pc in Aquila. We specify the column density in terms of the visual extinction using the standard factor N_H ∕A_V= 1.87 × 10²¹ cm⁻² (Bohlin et al. 1978).