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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
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