-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: Official State Highway Maps
Date:   Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:21:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Kathleen Stroud <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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CC:     Dawn Collings <[log in to unmask]>


The California Department of Transportation Publishes a "State Highway Map" but it doesn't appear to be annual. One catalog record in Worldcat says "biennial" but I'm not sure if I believe that. It may be biennial if the State Budget allows, or if they need another print run.

UC Davis has a cataloged 2003 (OCLC # 54348665) map and a soon-to-be cataloged 2005 map that you can borrow from us via ILL.

Feel free to contact me if you can't arrange a loan through the formal ILL system.

On a side note, The California Travel and Tourism Commission, a non-profit organization that worked in partnership with the State from 1998-2003 publishes a tourist road map of California that's titled "California (insert year) Official State Map" You get it as an insert in the CA Visitor's Guide that may be ordered at www.visitcalifornia.com.

Kathy Stroud, Map/GIS Librarian
Environmental Science and Policy, Soil, and Forestry Subject Specialist
Biological/Agricultural Sciences and Map Services, Shields Library
100 NW Quad Ave.
Davis, CA 95616-5292
530-752-5248

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----- "Angie Cope"<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:

>  -------- Original Message --------
>  Subject:        Official State Highway Maps
>  Date:   Mon, 4 Oct 2010 12:34:13 -0400
>  From:   MCQUILLAN, DAVID<[log in to unmask]>
>  To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
>  <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>  We are cataloging our backlog of state and city maps from our library
>  annex. This is just one part of over 400,000 maps and aerial
>  photographs
>  we hold.  We have a state of the art scanning facility in the Library
>  and one of the leading Geography departments. We began this project
>  with
>  Alabama and have worked our way up to New Jersey at this point in
>  time.
>  DOTs were contacted last year, and large map collections this year,
>  when
>  attempting to "backfill" our official state highway map collections.
>  We
>  had some very interesting searches, by statewide networks, looking in
>  automobile glove compartments, and chance encounters .  We had great
>  success with several states and none at all with others.    Some
>  states
>  had, in the last 2 years, recycled all their old editions and some
>  still
>  had extensive stocks of maps on hand.
>
>  What we would like to do is ask the list, from time to time, about
>  official maps for states that we could not find.  We know that we
>  have
>  back files of other state official and AAA highway maps that we would
>  be
>  willing to share.  We also have many back editions of the South
>  Carolina
>  Official Transportation map that we can share. We know that many of
>  these maps can be accessed online as PDFs, but we are working on our
>  paper map collection.  When this project is completed, we hope to
>  link
>  to those PDFs for maps that we are missing.
>
>  This list is a little long.  In the future I will do a state or two at
>  a
>  time.  These are dates we are missing, some may be combined dates.
>  i.e.
>  2000-2001, 1994-1996, etc.
>
>  ALABAMA -- 2003, 2001, 1997
>
>  ALASKA --2001, 2009
>
>  ARKANSAS -- 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005
>
>  CALIFORNIA -- 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009
>
>  COLORADO -- 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
>
>  CONNECTICUT -- 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009
>
>  DELAWARE -- 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009
>
>  GEORGIA -- 2002
>
>  HAWAII -- 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
>
>  IDAHO -- 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
>
>  ILLINOIS -- 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
>
>  INDIANA -- 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
>
>  KANSAS -- 2003, 2001 [1995 AAA]
>
>  KENTUCKY -- 1989, 2001
>
>  LOUISIANA -- 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 [2000 , 1999 AAA]
>
>  MAINE (TOURIST MAPS) -- 1999, 2001, 2004, 2008
>
>  MASSACHUSETTS -- 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
>
>  MICHIGAN -- 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004
>
>  MISSISSIPPI -- 2001, 2002, 2006
>
>  MISSOURI -- 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005-2006, 2008
>
>  MONTANA -- 2000, 2001, 2004, 2008
>
>  NEBRASKA -- 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010
>
>  NEVADA -- 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008
>
>  NEW HAMPSHIRE -- 2002-2003, 2005-2006, 2009-2010
>
>  NEW JERSEY -- 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
>
>  Our holdings go back to the 1940s and in some cases the 1930s, so if
>  you
>  have older maps, they might be helpful as well.
>
>  Thank you for taking the time to check.  I have New York next and
>  other
>  large states like North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and
>  Texas, so this will be a long-term project.
>
>  I hope, also, that this might awaken an interest in other states
>  (provinces or countries) to complete their back files of certain
>  paper
>  maps so there is back-up for our growing and necessary digital
>  collections.
>
>  Our mailing address is:
>
>  Map Library
>  Thomas Cooper Library
>  University of South Carolina
>  Columbia, SC 29208