We went from filing them under one catalog record as a series (for each national forest) to cataloging and maintaining them separately so that the individual sheets can be found and utilized. The original Forest Service series records did not list the separate quads/sheets by title, making them difficult to locate. All quads/sheets relating to a particular forest can still be found by forest name. Our reasoning? Make it discoverable!
Leslie Wagner
Metadata Archivist
Access & Discovery
University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [mailto:[log in to unmask]
EDU] On Behalf Of Angela R Cope
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 1:39 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Forest Service 1:24,000 Quads/Quadrangles
Hello all,
Will you reply to me or the list and tell me if you ...
a) interfile the Forest Service quads with your general USGS topographic quads
or
b) Keep the Forest Service maps in a separate location.
I'd love to hear why you think it's important for these maps to be together or kept separate, so if you have a moment, please include a sentence or two on that issue.
If I get any off list replies, I'll send a summary ...
Thanks in advance for your input.
Angie
p.s. I'm pasting a thread below from a 2004 Maps-L conversation about the Forest Service quads. It's interesting to see how they differ from the regular quads. Kathleen, are your's still interfiled?
------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: USGS Forest Service Revised Quads]
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:52:38 -0400
From: Steve Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: NCSU Libraries
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More info about the USFS quad sheets may be found at the North Carolina
Geologic Survey topo map site at: http://tinyurl.com/3b8f6 ... the URL was
too long to cut and paste. Click on the "Single-edition revision" link for
the USFS map details.
Key points are that the interagency agreement allows the USFS to update only
the National Forest land on a quadrangle and that DRG copies were not
routinely produced, so:
"... areas outside the National Forest System lands may not have been
revised and could be significantly older than the printed map date. Users
should note that:
In many cases, map revisions on a topographic map are performed only within
the USFS national forest boundaries;
In certain cases, partial and inconsistent feature revisions are performed
outside the USFS national forest boundary; and
Soft copy (the equivalent of a DRG) may not be as current as the published
paper map."
Some of this information on the NCGS page was summarized from the following
report:
Moore, Larry, 2000, The U.S. Geological Survey's revision program for
7.5-minute topographic maps, in Soller, David R., editor, Digital Mapping
Techniques '00-Workshop Proceedings, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
00-325, p. 21-26.
Best regards,
Steve Morris
"Johnnie D. Sutherland" wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: USGS Forest Service Revised Quads
> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 14:39:53 -0400
> From: Weessies, Kathleen <[log in to unmask]>
>
> ------------------
> I am looking for facts and opinions on the USGS 7.5' quads that were
> revised by the U.S. Forest Service. I have been interfiling them with
> 'regular' USGS quads. We are now creating cataloging records for state
> sets. My records are stretching out to include all the photorevised and
> provisional editions of each quad, but I decided to draw the line at the
> 7.5 x 15 and the Forest Service quads. The 7.5 x 15 are the only USGS
> 1:24,000 quad of a particular place, but for whatever reason I decided
> to catalog them in a different record.
>
> Does anyone have any particular knowledge about the difference between
> the USGS and the Forest Service quads? Are they indeed a different
> product or simply a little extra shading and pink lines that shouldn't
> bother anyone? Many quads have other authors such as Corps of
> Engineers, State agencies, etc. Are the Forest Service quads simply
> another variation or are they truly different? Does the USGS consider
> them to be part of the set or a different animal?
>
> Kathleen Weessies
> Maps/GIS Librarian
> Michigan State University
> 100 Library W308
> East Lansing, MI 48824
--
Steve Morris
Head of Digital Library Initiatives
North Carolina State University Libraries
Phone: (919) 515-1361 Fax: (919) 513-3553
