Comments on: USGS Topographic Maps

By: Douglas

Douglas — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:59:38 +0000

Sorry topomatt, I abused the download number before I read it, I will paypal you. Thank you very much for all the hard work.

By: Trevor K

Trevor K — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:46:12 +0000

Thank you so much, this is amazing. I’m in Oregon and it has already helped so much. Now I’m planning on moving to Alaska next year, so I definitely would love to see that next!

By: topomatt

topomatt — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:03:30 +0000

Great service…thank you so very much. Here’s $10 to your paypal account

Thank Roger. That helps a lot.

By: Roger G

Roger G — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:24:33 +0000

Great service…thank you so very much. Here’s $10 to your paypal account.

By: PasnThru

PasnThru — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:50:00 +0000

This collection exceeds my wildest dreams of blending GE with quality topo maps. I am in the process of creating a 6 mile hike that goes near a lot of houses and farms. Using the combination of satellite and topo I have managed to keep a fairly flat path while staying in the woods, away from the houses. Excellent!!! The process of uploading to my GPS is a bit cumbersome but it does work. Thanks Again

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:32:12 +0000

This is awesome! I can’t figure out a way to print out the whole topo maps. The only option i seem to be able to find is the screen print and that is a small section if i want to see the lines real well. Thank you for your help.

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:16:44 +0000

Yes, that worked–thanks!

By: topomatt

topomatt — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:55:55 +0000

I’ve been using 5.1 for a while now. They should work. Try downloading the KML file again from the post.

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:32:57 +0000

First let me thank you for creating these maps–they are great! The one problem is that I just upgraded to GE 5.1 (from 5.0), and now I can’t get the maps to come up at all. Is anyoneelse having this issue, or is there some fix I need to make? Thanks.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:11:54 +0000

Whoa, found the answer, and learned a much quicker way to adjust the transparency! – (For anyone challenged like myself, there is a transparency slider is at the bottom of the places window. I’ve always gone into properties of each item by right clicking and so one. Wonder how long that’s been there staring at me…)

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:05:41 +0000

First off, thank you thank you! (I feel bad asking a question so I hope it doesn’t come off as ungrateful!) I’m having with getting the transparency to work right. Right clicking on the map name (the blue underlined map name) the transparency option isn’t there. Expanding the folder there are many icons that I presume are the individual images. They have the transparency option but so far only one did anything and it was just a strip on the right side of the entire map that changed transparency. Is there a way to change the transparency for the entire map at once, rather than individual sections of each map?

Again, thank you for your work!

By: Marti

Marti — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:27:49 +0000

Hi! I can’t seem to see the “View Maps.” I was able to download and view the USGS topo outlines and map names. When I mouse over the outlines nothing happens. Any suggestions?

You should just be able to click on one of the colored rectangles to pop up a window with the View Map button. If that doesn’t work, you might have older version of Google Earth. You can either upgrade to current version of Google Earth, or try holding CTRL or SHIFT (I can’t remember which) when you click on the rectangle. Let me know if this doesn’t fix it for you.

By: AlaBill

AlaBill — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:04:40 +0000

Absolutely AWESOME!

I have been looking a farm property and trying to relate it to an aerial map from Google. Now I get both. I’ve not seen anything better as it relates to Google earth in a long time.

Kudos for this.

Thanks a bunch!!!!

Bill

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:47:49 +0000

Awesome Work! This is just what I was looking for to plan my backcountry trips.
Beautiful! Until now it was been a very slow and laborious process to create GPS tracks from USGS TOPO maps.

By: topomatt

topomatt — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:27:21 +0000

Thanks for the hard work collecting this information. What is the difference between the data you have collected for google earth and the topo function on NASA worldwind?

I haven’t used the topo layer in World Wind. I’m assuming they pull their data from TerraServer. They should be similar since same data source. But a few differences..
- I think maps I offer are a little higher quality than Terraserver.
- Terraserver is seamless. My maps have the borders (advantages and disadvantages to both)
- My maps can be used off line a little easier
- Terraserver is usually painfully slow

By: topomatt

topomatt — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:23:59 +0000

Awesome work. Do you know of anything similar done for Canada?

I’m actually in the process of downloading all the topo maps from Canada. Unfortunately, I don’t have the server capabilities right now to host them. Maybe someday though.

By: raphen

raphen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:27:22 +0000

Thanks for the hard work collecting this information. What is the difference between the data you have collected for google earth and the topo function on NASA worldwind?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:29:13 +0000

Awesome work. Do you know of anything similar done for Canada?