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Grex Travel Item 56: Great maps
Entered by mcpoz on Fri May 31 01:34:52 UTC 1996:

I just bought contour maps for Utah and Arizona.  These things are a must for
the traveler who wants to get into the remote areas.  The brand of my map is
DeLorme - (Utah) Atlas & gazetter - Topo Maps of the Entire State - Public
lands & Back Roads.  

This shows contour intervals, trails, state land, abandoned railroads,
elevation, land features, springs/wells, quarries, caves, mines, ruins,
landmark objects, and more.  

It cost about $17 at Borders.  I hope to put these to good use this fall.

6 responses total.

#1 of 6 by omni on Fri May 31 03:47:49 1996:

 I think that the US Geodetical survey has maps for sale as well.

 Another good source for maps is Geography Unlimited on Winewood.

#2 of 6 by rcurl on Fri May 31 06:27:26 1996:

How many maps are in the Utah/Arizona atlas? Are they exact copies of
USGS topo maps, or DeLorme derivatives? The prices of real topo maps
have gone up steeply (ca. $4.50 each now, I think), and I would be
surprised if DeLorme is selling the equivalent for less. Do the maps
show the UTM grid at correct scale, for use with the overlay reader?

#3 of 6 by robh on Sat Jun 1 01:56:06 1996:

This item has been linked from Travel 56 to Intro 46.
Type "join travel" at the Ok: prompt for discussion of
places near and far.

#4 of 6 by mcpoz on Sat Jun 1 11:48:51 1996:

Rane - here is some info from the DeLorme map inside cover:

"The Utah Atlas & Gazetteer is composed of 46 quadrangular maps.  Each map
is composed of 41.25 minutes of longitude and 48 minutes of latitude covering
an area approximately 37 miles (59.6 km) wide by 55.2 miles (88.8) km high."

"The scale of the atlas is 1:250,000 ....."

"Within each map are small black crosshairs which define areas 15 minutes of
longitude wide by 15 minutes of lattitude high.  These correspond to the same
areas covered by the USGS 15-minute (1:62,500 scale) maps."

DeLorme also has an ad in the back cover for CD-Rom mapping of the entire
country at street level.  (50 states).  They claim this zooms in and out
seamlessly.  They also have a "Map'n'Go" travel planner and a "Global
Explorer." 

Their phone is 1-800-452-5931 ext 550

#5 of 6 by rcurl on Sat Jun 1 18:42:08 1996:

Oh... 1:250,000. They aren't very useful for local travel. 
I just ordered the DeLorme Street Atlas for Mac. Ver. 3.0 (CD-ROM). It is
much used by GPS users, since one can obtain lattitude/longitude at any
chosen point (but one has to write it down to transfer it - bummer).

#6 of 6 by rcurl on Wed Aug 25 03:05:10 1999:

My GPS receiver survived WRO.

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