EISPIRATEN

I was poking around the USGS online store and saw the option to download USGS maps.

Of course I clicked

DOWNLOAD
TOPO MAPS FREE!

These are GeoPDF version of the good'ol USGS topo

wanna print out a portion of a map that is zoomed way in? This is the hot ticket

Download and install the toolbar too!

Try it you'll like it

Enjoy
Matt

Yeah, those are great, aren't they? Very high quality pdf's that, on a good printer, are just about as good as the store-bought USGS ones. They're wonderful for planning and "nav noodling" -- mark 'em up all you want; they're free.

Now, all I need to do is to find a good way to "mosaic" them together, since the biggest sheet of paper I can print is 11x17 and I think the usgs uses something like 36x50 (or some such). Yes, it could be done by hand with a paper cutter, but I keep hoping for something a little more sophisticated.

I guess, I could go back to using my National Geographic Topo! software that I bought in 2000, but the resolution/print quality is so poor.

Hikin_Jim wrote:Yeah, those are great, aren't they? Very high quality pdf's that, on a good printer, are just about as good as the store-bought USGS ones. They're wonderful for planning and "nav noodling" -- mark 'em up all you want; they're free.

Now, all I need to do is to find a good way to "mosaic" them together, since the biggest sheet of paper I can print is 11x17 and I think the usgs uses something like 36x50 (or some such). Yes, it could be done by hand with a paper cutter, but I keep hoping for something a little more sophisticated.

I guess, I could go back to using my National Geographic Topo! software that I bought in 2000, but the resolution/print quality is so poor.

You can print larger sizes over at Kinkos, office depot , etc...

Just put it in a PDF, I'm certain I could take one of these GeoPDF files over to Kinkos and get it printed full size, the PDF properties say it is 21¾ x 27

As to National Geographic TOPO! I use SnagIt, That is how I extracted the image on the post about Haines Cyn.

Enjoy!
Matt

Hikin_Jim wrote:Now, all I need to do is to find a good way to "mosaic" them together, since the biggest sheet of paper I can print is 11x17 and I think the usgs uses something like 36x50 (or some such). Yes, it could be done by hand with a paper cutter, but I keep hoping for something a little more sophisticated. .

I made this image from 2 GeoPDF files

I set the zoom the same (200%) used the screen grab in Acrobat and pasted the result into the image editor of your choice... Then lined em up Viola!

Matt

Sweet!

Thanks, Matt, I'm going to have to play around with that.