Comments on: Nationwide Historic USGS Topo Map Scanning Project

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:47:41 +0000

I have a bunch of old KY quads…I hate to just throw them away. I was told that a friend of my grandfather used them to mark cave openings

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:20:02 +0000

would you like a lot of 1950 and later TOPO Maps to scan into your project? Do you know anyone who would want them?

Bob

Are you talking about paper maps? I don’t really have any way to scan them. But someone else might want them.

By: TopoA

TopoA — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:04:59 +0000

where can i download that program that converts the downloaded topos to KML format…i want to get some topos plotted here in Texas

Easiest one I know of is Global Mapper. But it’s about $350. Alternative would be to use free GIS Program, such as MapWindow, but I don’t believe it supports GeoPDF directly, so you’d have to first figure out a way to convert the GeoPDF to a TIFF file.

By: topomatt

topomatt — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:01:29 +0000

I have a program that converts the maps to KML/KMZ format. I also have a database of all the maps, which I’m able to output to another KML file, which acts as the index to the actual maps.

By: claudia

claudia — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:58:21 +0000

I would like to know how you serve the maps on google earth. Once you have the scanned map what is the process to serve them in google earth?

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