-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Advice on road maps Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:53:46 -0700 From: "Ken Rockwell" <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ Hello, all: The following query was forwarded to me. I responded from my own experience, but the inquirer is interested in others' perspectives. Contact Elena Longsworth directly at [log in to unmask] She's probably not on the list. Query: We have been scouring the net for map sources. We are in search of one-sheet folding state roadmaps many orders of magnitude finer than the standard gas-station-issue Rand-McNally or AAA. State maps may not be your specialty, but perhaps you have a line [or many lines] on sources and individuals with comparable commitment to quality, a brotherhood of entrepreneurial cartographers. In our travels, mostly in the American West so far, weıve found only a few publishers with the accuracy, terrain representation and attention to local-road/backroad/off-road detail we want, usually "recreational maps², for the Rocky Mountain states [GTR Mapping, Canon City, CO] and one veritable work of art for Oregon [Imus Geographics in Eugene]. We will next be traveling Washington state and north into Canada, but over the next several years will be traversing a great deal of the rest of the U.S. and would like to know where we are going, in greater detail, far off the beaten track of Interstate! asphalt. We know of Benchmark and DeLorme atlases, and have several which we use for planning; we definitely take them along too, but they donıt fit the usual map slots found in a car, so theyıre stored elsewhere between stops, not as easily to hand. For on-the-road use we prefer the single-sheet kind. Any sources you could give us, others in your field and of your caliber, would be gratefully received and explored. Follow-up request: All right, looks like we have a bunch of new stuff to check out, many thanks for all the tips ... Might you have any recommendations (& e-ddresses) for equally resourceful map librarians at other state university libraries? Rather than giving out your email addresses, I chose to post to MAPS-L so that you can reply at your own leisure. That's Elena Longsworth: [log in to unmask] --Ken Rockwell