-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: USGS Maps Editions
Date:   Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:35:40 -0400
From:   Edward James Redmond <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum Maps <[log in to unmask]>


LC holds the two 1963 Downey Mountain, VA (7.5 minute) USGS sheets but we do not hold a 'just brown and blue' edition.  The sheets have other differences:

1) one sheet has a red grid and red contours
2) the other sheet has a dark orange grid, dark orange contours, and very dark green indicating forest cover.

Maybe the latter sheet was printed on a Friday afternoon?

Ed




Ed Redmond
Geography & Map Reference Specialist
Geography and Map Division
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20540-4651
(202) 707-8548
[log in to unmask]

-------------------------------------------
The views expressed in this message are solely mine
and do not necessarily represent those of the Library of Congress.



>>> Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]> 7/9/2008 12:22 PM >>>
-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        RE: USGS Maps Editions
Date:   Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:16:03 -0500
From:   Coombs, James <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



Your 'just brown and blue' edition might just be a misprint.  We
received a quad once that had just brown and blue, but no black or red,
so there was nothing to identify its location.  We displayed it during
Geography Awareness Week and encouraged people to guess what state it
was from.

Jim Coombs
Map Librarian
Duane G Meyer Library
Missouri State University


-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        USGS Maps Editions
Date:   Tue, 8 Jul 2008 11:27:54 -0700
From:   Diaz, Carlos <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps-L (E-mail) <[log in to unmask]>




I am hoping the good folks in Maps-L can help me with a minor mystery.

Someone I know has two copies of the Downey Mountain, WA 7.5 minute
series map.  The map is a 1963 edition that was published in 1965.  They
are exactly the same except the coloration of one of them is different
from the other.  One has these reds and oranges and such and the other
is just brown and blue (for the water bodies).

What is going on?  Would you consider them different?  Would you keep
both of them?

Any help you can give me would be most appreciated.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

       ,-~~-.___.
      / |  '     \         "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of
     (  )         0         the few or the one."
      \_/-, ,----'
         ====           //               Mr. Spock
        /  \-'~;    /~~~(O)              Star Trek:  The Wrath of Khan
       /  __/~|   /       |
     =(  _____| (_________|


Carlos A. Diaz
Government Documents Specialist
Government Documents/Maps
Daniel J. Evans Library
The Evergreen State College
Mailstop L-2309
Olympia, WA 98505
[log in to unmask]
http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/index.html
GovDocs/Maps Desk:  (360) 867-6165
Carlos' phone:  (360) 867-6251
fax:      (360) 866-6790

-----------------------------------------------------------------------