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Subject: Re: printing topos, etc.
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:15:19 -0500
From: Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & GIS Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Alice;
They are all gone, as far as I know. They were primarily in the
large chain outdoor stores, such as REI plus as few of the larger
independents, such as Mapsco in Denver. According to a couple of
store managers that I know that had the kiosks, the machines were
down a significant amount of time and were hard to fix. The printed
product also had the problem of being shrunk from the original size,
which pushed contour lines closer together and made the (fuzzy)
elevation numbers even harder to read. Most large stores have made
the investment and bought their own color plotters and plot them in
house. Prices seem to vary around the $10 point for standard paper
or $15 for waterproof paper.
The kiosks were the first of their kind and "leading edge" at the
time and kudos to NGS for trying them.
Cheers
Russell
At 09:04 AM 12/9/2009, you wrote:
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>Subject: Re: printing topos, etc.
>Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:10:50 -0600 (CST)
>From: AliceH <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
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>What happened to those Nat Geo kiosks, in commercial sites? where USGS
>topos could be printed out on demand? admittedly several years ago, and
>perhaps based on outdated technology. Those did at least provide some
>sort of easy access to topos. Or am I misremembering in my dotage?
>
>I always thought it was an odd mix of USGS and National Geographic, not
>to mention confusing to the great general public about
>authorship/responsibility.
>
>Alice
>
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>Dec 8, 2009 01:56:45 PM, [log in to unmask]
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> From: "Christopher Thiry" <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 11:27:16 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: printing topos, etc.
>
>
> All,
>
> After last week's announcement from USGS regarding topos, now what?
> Should we buy a big plotter and print off topos, etc. for people
> whenever they want them? Or provide computers with oversized
> monitors and that's it? What are people planning to do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christopher J.J. Thiry
> Map Librarian
> Colorado School of Mines
> 1400 Illinois
> Golden, CO 80401
> p. 303-273-3697
> f. 303-273-3199
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> http://library.mines.edu/
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