We interfile.
We have always kept various editions of quads together by location. We, unfortunately, don’t really have our sets described in our online catalog effectively at all.
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Jon Jablonski
Director, Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory
Spatial Data Librarian, Map & Imagery Lab
UCSB Library
805-893-4049
> On Dec 21, 2016, at 11:38 AM, Angela R Cope <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> Will you reply to me or the list and tell me if you ...
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> a) interfile the Forest Service quads with your general USGS topographic quads
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> or
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> b) Keep the Forest Service maps in a separate location.
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> I'd love to hear why you think it's important for these maps to be together or kept separate, so if you have a moment, please include a sentence or two on that issue.
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> If I get any off list replies, I'll send a summary ...
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> Thanks in advance for your input.
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> Angie
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> p.s. I'm pasting a thread below from a 2004 Maps-L conversation about the Forest Service quads. It's interesting to see how they differ from the regular quads. Kathleen, are your's still interfiled? <OutlookEmoji-😊.png>
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> ------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: USGS Forest Service Revised Quads]
> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:52:38 -0400
> From: Steve Morris <[log in to unmask]>
> Organization: NCSU Libraries
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> ------------------
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> More info about the USFS quad sheets may be found at the North Carolina
> Geologic Survey topo map site at: http://tinyurl.com/3b8f6 ... the URL was
> too long to cut and paste. Click on the "Single-edition revision" link for
> the USFS map details.
>
> Key points are that the interagency agreement allows the USFS to update only
> the National Forest land on a quadrangle and that DRG copies were not
> routinely produced, so:
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> "... areas outside the National Forest System lands may not have been
> revised and could be significantly older than the printed map date. Users
> should note that:
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> In many cases, map revisions on a topographic map are performed only within
> the USFS national forest boundaries;
>
> In certain cases, partial and inconsistent feature revisions are performed
> outside the USFS national forest boundary; and
>
> Soft copy (the equivalent of a DRG) may not be as current as the published
> paper map."
>
> Some of this information on the NCGS page was summarized from the following
> report:
>
> Moore, Larry, 2000, The U.S. Geological Survey's revision program for
> 7.5-minute topographic maps, in Soller, David R., editor, Digital Mapping
> Techniques '00-Workshop Proceedings, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
> 00-325, p. 21-26.
> http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of00-325/moore.html
>
> Best regards,
>
> Steve Morris
>
>
> "Johnnie D. Sutherland" wrote:
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> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: USGS Forest Service Revised Quads
> > Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 14:39:53 -0400
> > From: Weessies, Kathleen <[log in to unmask]>
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> > I am looking for facts and opinions on the USGS 7.5' quads that were
> > revised by the U.S. Forest Service. I have been interfiling them with
> > 'regular' USGS quads. We are now creating cataloging records for state
> > sets. My records are stretching out to include all the photorevised and
> > provisional editions of each quad, but I decided to draw the line at the
> > 7.5 x 15 and the Forest Service quads. The 7.5 x 15 are the only USGS
> > 1:24,000 quad of a particular place, but for whatever reason I decided
> > to catalog them in a different record.
> >
> > Does anyone have any particular knowledge about the difference between
> > the USGS and the Forest Service quads? Are they indeed a different
> > product or simply a little extra shading and pink lines that shouldn't
> > bother anyone? Many quads have other authors such as Corps of
> > Engineers, State agencies, etc. Are the Forest Service quads simply
> > another variation or are they truly different? Does the USGS consider
> > them to be part of the set or a different animal?
> >
> > Kathleen Weessies
> > Maps/GIS Librarian
> > Michigan State University
> > 100 Library W308
> > East Lansing, MI 48824
> > (517)432-6123 x250
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> Head of Digital Library Initiatives
> North Carolina State University Libraries
> Phone: (919) 515-1361 Fax: (919) 513-3553
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