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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:55:58 -0500
From: John Long <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: How do you correct erroneous KY maps? (fwd)

I think more information is needed before anyone can formulate advice for
Bill Davis.  The messages about GNIS have been enlightening, but do they
answer the original question?  It is unclear, for example, who made the old
maps of Carroll County (a private publisher/cartographer, the county
surveyor, a state agency like the Kentucky Highway Department, a federal
agency, etc.)? and when they were made.  The same is true for what seems to
be the more recent map on which the road names appear switched. Has anyone
visited the roads in question to see whether the street signs identify them
as they were named on the old maps or as they are on the more recent map?
Of course, errors are hardly unknown on even the most carefully made modern
maps, let alone on older ones, and putting a name on a map does not always
fix or change a name in practice on the ground.  Having more details about
the maps in question would make it easier to appreciate the problem and,
therefore, to suggest what might be done.  Could Bill Davis provide more
data about the maps in question?

John Long

At 10:28 AM 8/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 19:03:50 -0400
>From: William A. Davis <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: How do you correct erroneous KY maps?
>
>
>I am interested in genealogy and I usually just lurk on this list, but
I've just came upon a map error and I was wondering what to do about it.
>
>After a confusing discussion with another genealogist, a review of old
maps has shown that older maps of Carroll County, KY show a road in
northwest Carroll County that follows Hampton Creek was called, sensibly,
Hampton Lane.    Another road east of Hampton Creek was once called Hunter
Heights, later Kawneer.   It was near Deweese Creek.
>
>But somewhere along the way the lane old Hampton Lane was mislabeled
Deweese Road, and the road formerly called Hunter Heights was labeled
Hampton Lane.      In effect the road nearest Deweese Creek is now labeled
Hampton Lane, and the road along Hampton Creek is labeled Deweese Road.
This appears to be an error not just because of the creeks, but also
because of the families that gave these roads their names.
>
>But what does one do with this information?   I am thinking perhaps that
first I would contact the State Highway Department to make sure they have
the names right, then contact the USGS to make sure they correct future
maps then hope the correction filters down from there?   Sound reasonable?
 Or are they likely to say, "Why change it?"
>
>
>
>
>Bill Davis
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