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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:18:09 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thiry <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Outline US State Map survey results
Sender: Thiry <[log in to unmask]>


The following are replies to my inquiry regarding outline maps of the USA
on the Web.  Thanks for everyone's input


> Perhaps this one would do for both requests:
>
> US States Outline Maps from Silver Burdett Ginn, Inc:
> www.sbgschool.com/teacher_activities/social_studies/USAmap.html
>
> Other sites that have a variety of outline maps:
>
> Outline Maps from Houghton Mifflin
>     www.eduplace.com/ss/ssmaps/index.html
> Outline Maps from Silver Burdett Ginn Inc.
>     www.sbgschool.com/teacher_activities/social_studies/outlinemaps.html
>
> Census Bureau County Outline Maps from the PCL Collection
>     www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/county_outline.html
> Xpeditions Atlas, Printable maps from the National Geographic Society.
>     www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/main.html?main=atlas
> MiningCo Outline Map Links
>     geography.miningco.com/msub37.htm
>
> Carol Doyle
> Head, Government Documents and Maps
> Henry Madden Library
> California State University, Fresno
> 5200 North Barton Avenue M/S ML 34
> Fresno, CA 93740-8014
>
> [log in to unmask]
> 559 278-3033
> fax:  559 278-6952

> RE: your question on MapsL, there's a beautiful U.S. basemap on the
> U.S.D.A. "Maps, Facts, and Figures" page downloadable in gif format.  It
> shows rivers and relief, so there may be too much color, but there is no
> writing on the map itself. Go to:
> <http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/land/index/basemaps.html> and click on
> "United States Painted Relief".  There are also other choices for
> basemaps.
>
> F.Y.I., the Penn State Digital Chart of the World site will let you
> download encapsulated postscript files of each state separately.  To get
> boundaries only, you have to refrain from choosing any themes. Don't
> download the ArcInfo files by mistake unless you want to bring them up
> with GIS.  I don't think you can get the whole country in one file, or
> at least, I couldn't find it.  The URL:
> <http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/>.
>
> If you use ArcView, you know already that you can get the U.S.
> boundaries very quickly and print them.  I assume you want a web site.
>
> **************************************
> Wendie Helms, Map Curator
> Map Collection, Science Library
> University of California, Riverside
> P.O. Box 5900
> Riverside, CA 92517
> (909) 787-6423

> Without names:
> http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/maps/us-outln.gif
>
> With State abbreviations:
>http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/maps/us-out2.gif


--Christopher JJ Thiry
Map Librarian
Colorado School of Mines
1400 Illinois
PO Box 4029
Golden, CO 80401-0029

voice:  303-273-3697
fax:    303-273-3199

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