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Subject: RE: Historical Topographic Maps!
All,
USGS is in the process of borrowing and scanning our historic topo collection of Colorado--all scales, all years. The scans will be sent off to Wisconsin to be "worked on" and eventually the scans will be uploaded to database. Not sure when that is going to happen. I'm just happy we could help out.
Christopher J.J. Thiry
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Colorado School of Mines
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Subject: Historical Topographic Maps!
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. (??)
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.
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.
What are your thoughts?
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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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.
Carlos A. Diaz
Government Documents/Maps
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington
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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
Carlos, thank your for your intersest in USGS's topograhic maps.
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"
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
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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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.
If not, do you have such a source already available?
You should see NOAA's historical database for maps and nautical charts at:
http://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/historical_zoom.asp
..pretty good.
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