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Subject: Re: Historic topo scanning project
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:49:24 -0400
From: John A Stevenson <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: University of Delaware
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


My library is not participating in the historic topo scanning project
but draft minutes from the Delaware Geographic Data Committee includes
slides from a USGS presentation as a PDF file at this URL:
http://calendar.delaware.gov/egov/calendar.nsf/*/3CB895AFA58A59D8852577EE004CB220/$file/20110310_dgdc_meeting_minutes.pdf?openelement
(or click the link to draft minutes from
http://dgdc.blogs.delaware.gov/2011/03/11/draft-minutes-031011-dgdc/ )

On page 62 is the USGS presentation about the project to produce scanned
historical topographic Maps with these goals:

  Scan approximately 250,000 printed quadrangles – all maps, all scales

  Use consistent, high quality specifications

  Scan State coverages in the same order as US Topo maps are released –
  approximately 40,000 maps by the end of 2010


Perhaps the project's activity is not yet visible to map users?

John A. Stevenson
Associate Librarian
Coordinator, Government Documents and Maps Processing Unit
University of Delaware Library
181 S. College Ave.
Newark, DE 19717-5267
302 831-8671
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Angie Cope wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Historic topo scanning project
> Date:   Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:35:46 -0400
> From:   John A Olson <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship'
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Greetings All,
>
> Who out there in map land has contributed to the USGS’s Historic
> Topographic map scanning project?
>
> http://infotrek.er.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=182:1:1010236997639349
>
> And is this still an active venture by USGS? I have not seen any active
> movement here in awhile.
>
>
> *John A. Olson***
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