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From: "Jaime Stoltenberg" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Kathleen Weessies" <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
Cc: "Gregory J Allord" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 10:33:12 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: Historical Topographic Maps!
Hello all-
UW-Madison partnered with USGS on a digital preservation project back in
2005 and scanned topographic maps at the UW Map Library up until last
summer. I believe scanning is now taking place at various locations
using maps from institutions that most likely have more complete
collections for their home states than WI would have. I do not think
this project is on hiatus. The historic quad images are currently
archived at the USGS offices here in Madison. Currently there is work
being done by UW faculty and grad students (in conjunction with USGS) to
develop a quick and accurate georeferencing process using a customized
pattern recognition application. Questions regarding plans for what
will happen with those images in terms of accessibility will have to be
addressed by USGS.
As far as Wisconsin is concerned, we provided our UW Digital Collections
Center with the ~2500 scans of historic WI quads, and they will be made
available for viewing via our 'State of Wisconsin Collection' digital
library in the coming months.
Jaime
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Jaime Stoltenberg
Map and GIS Librarian
Arthur H. Robinson Map Library
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison
550 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 262-1471
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web: http://www.geography.wisc.edu/maplib
Weessies, Kathleen wrote:
> We've been planning a project to scan all the Michigan 15' topos. The USGS store doesn't have them yet (7.5, 30, and 250k only) but the USGS store site suggests they are in the pipeline. (??)
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> I'd heard a rumor that the USGS was scanning 15' at Wisconsin, or Wisconsin was scanning 15' topos using USGS equipment. But if true, the project seemed to be on indefinite hiatus.
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> Does anyone know anything about this? The USGS store offers the topos as GeoPDFs scanned at 250ppi. Which is wonderful, fantastic.....but I wonder if I ought to offer them to my folks in some other format also such as GeoTIFF. My geography professors prefer the 15' topo when studying landforms.
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> What are your thoughts?
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> Kathleen Weessies
> Geosciences Librarian
> Head, Map Library
> Michigan State University
> 100 Library W308
> East Lansing, MI 48824
> 517-432-6123 x250
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> From: Maps, Air Photo & GIS Forum on behalf of Angie Cope
> Sent: Wed 12/9/2009 6:36 PM
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> Subject: Digital Map Feedback,Historical Topographic Maps
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> I was interested in finding out if the USGS will include historical topographic maps in its new USTOPO database. Below is the response from the USGS.
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> Carlos A. Diaz
> Government Documents/Maps
> The Evergreen State College
> Olympia, Washington
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stafford G Binder [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of USTOPO
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:38 AM
> To: Diaz, Carlos
> Cc: Michael J Cooley; Gregory J Allord
> Subject: Re: Digital Map Feedback,Historical Topographic Maps
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> Carlos, thank your for your intersest in USGS's topograhic maps.
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> Carlos wrote - " Will this new database also provide historical topographic maps like from the 19th and early 20th centuries?" and again Carlos wrote - "If not, do you have such a source already available? You should see NOAA's historical database for maps and nautical charts"
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> USGS is producing high resolution scans of USGS historic topographic maps. Many will be in the 20th century (1900's) and very few, if any, in the 19th century (1800's). USGS made most of the legacy topographic maps in the 1900's and had just started mapping at the turn of the century. These scanned historic maps will become available this year through the USGS Store http://store.usgs.gov/b2c_usgs/usgs/maplocator/(xcm=r3standardpitrex_prd&layout=6_1_61_48&uiarea=2&ctype=areaDetails&carea=%24ROOT)/.do
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> Thank you for the reference to NOAA's historic maps archive.
>
> Stafford Binder
> Associate to the Graphics Product and Service Lead
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> Date: 12/08/2009 04:30 PM
> Subject: Digital Map Feedback,Historical Topographic Maps
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> Will this new database also provide historical topographic maps like from the 19th and early 20th centuries?
>
> There seems to be a great demand by academic researchers for historical topographic maps as well.
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> If not, do you have such a source already available?
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> You should see NOAA's historical database for maps and nautical charts at:
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> http://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/historical_zoom.asp
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> ..pretty good.
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