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I got drawn to hunt in Montana this fall and have ordered national forest maps but would like to narrow the search some by looking at topo's on-line. What sites have you all used in the past? Thanks in advance.
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Thanks Husky. And as usual i will need 4 maps to get all the area i am going to be hunting LOL
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http://store.usgs.gov/b2c_usgs/usgs/maplocator/(xcm=r3standardpitrex_prd&layout=6_1_61_48&uiarea=2&ctype=areaDetails&carea=%24ROOT)/.do
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Might try GoogleEarth too, just for kicks- you can print those off at home, and even take them into Kinko, or Mailbox Etc. and have them blown up and copied in color.
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No mention of scale,.......
is it just me ,....or are " 1 to 25's " getting hard to find?
smallest available here are 1 to 50.
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This place makes some good maps. http://www.mytopo.com/
Phil
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local book store sells the topo maps for all of Florida. I just pull them out of a drawer and take them to the cashier. $7 each.
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Our camp is right by the edge of one standard map and just off the adjacent map.
With mytopo I was able to get the area I wanted without having to tape two maps together. The waterproof paper stands up a lot better that the regular paper maps as well.
Phil
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^^^^^ AND you can specify what mapscale you want them in!!!
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Thanks Husky. And as usual i will need 4 maps to get all the area i am going to be hunting LOL
Ain't that how it goes. I download the relevant quads (.tiff) for free from Libre Map project, load them all into Global Mapper, which is free for all the functionality I need and can be downloaded here ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/cr/mo/rolla/viewers/dlgv32pro/They come up in global mapper with proper register so all you have to do is remove the white borders. You do that with "tools->control center->options->cropping->crop to manually specified lat/lon boundaries" The default values are what you want so just click OK and you now have a larger seamless topo map.
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