--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:45:20 -0500 From: "William A. Davis" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: How to obtain Coordinates from a topographical map Sender: "William A. Davis" <[log in to unmask]> Maybe I can get some advice on this list. I am not a map professional by any means. I am interested in preserving the location of the many little family cemeteries that are found throughout Carroll County, KY and other locations. I was thinking that one way to do this was to record the latitude and longitude coordinates for each cemetery. I don't know much about latitude and longitude except that it tells you where a particular location is. I may someday obtain a GPS device and get the readings at each cemetery, but for the moment I am wondering how I can obtain a credible approximate reading by cross-referencing the numbers along the borders of a USGS topographical map? I have a topographical map upon which I have marked many of these locations and would like to convert them into latitude and longitude numbers. I can't tell how to do this just by looking at the map itself. Could someone give me some direction? Could there be any online map server that I would find helpful? The topographical map does have some cemeteries indicated already, but you couldn't find them in a web server, I guess because they are not named. Have I missed a way to get the server to give the coordinates for these unnamed cemeteries? And a third question: Is the USGS still taking information to update their maps? And are they incorporating them into new maps or servers? I thought I had heard budget cuts were shutting down the production of further maps. If I still can I'd like to name this maps and get them into the system. Would they still take the information on a cemetery that's no longer visable? Any thoughts appreciated, Bill Davis ******************************************************************* * * * [log in to unmask] * P.O. Box 337 * Ghent * KY * 41045 * * ****************************************************************** --- End Forwarded Message ---