Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:49:09 -0600
To: mailto:[email protected]
From: Mike Gross <[email protected]>
Subject: More on USGS maps
Keep quality maps alive -- order some today.
Assuming that everyone saw the post by Preston.
The rest of the story on USGS maps is that most retail vendors have gone
over to a system of printing out scans of the maps on the spot. An example
is Miller Blueprint in Austin, which used to be THE source in town. The
on-the-spot prints of scans are seriously inferior in terms of paper
quality and print quality to the offset printed maps from USGS. A
side-by-side of one of the ink-jet prints with a "real" USGS map will
make the difference jump out. The worse part is that USGS is also planning
to stop printing maps that don't get requested often and go to the system
of ink-jet prints of scans for the rarely-ordered maps.
The message is: order maps generously and often, and directly from USGS.
Who ever had a map they regretted buying. It's easy and cheap at
http://topomaps.usgs.gov/. Get the index map for states you're interested
in to keep track of which maps cover what ground, and which ones you
already have.
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