Free Topo Maps

[jorge]

http://www.libremap.org/data/

Jorge

 

[Scott Brady]

Jorge, that is an excellent find. Thanks so much for posting it

 

[Ursidae69]

Yes, good link. :bowdown:

 

[seth_js]

Awesome! Thanks man.

 

[The BN Guy]

Looks like a good find. Can't open the files from school. Gotta wait till I get home.

 

[Bergger]

So how do you read the maps? I'm downloading them but they are so small I can't use them. Do I need some other software to be able to enlarge them or am I just an idot??

 

[Ursidae69]

So how do you read the maps? I'm downloading them but they are so small I can't use them. Do I need some other software to be able to enlarge them or am I just an idot??

I downloaded a .tiffs for a test and they were ~10mbs each and worked great.

 

[Expedition Pictures]

Crap, these guys beat me to it. Only my mapping site was going to be called the Nacho Libre Map Project.

Ok, I know, that was bad.

Awesome find. Thank goodness for the Creative Commons Licencse.

 

[Ric]

i cant read them either, says unknown file type, how can i fix this ? i know nothing about computers.

 

[whitethaiger]

He just recently finished the project. It's nice to have all the maps in one place. These maps have been available for free on the net for years, but it was always somewhat of a pain to find the download sites.

For those with issues to look at the maps:
One simple way to look at them on a Windows box is to

• download them (right click on the TIFF link and select "Save Link As" or "Save Target As" or whatever your browser has there).
• Open them with almost any graphics program (or try double clicking in Windows Explorer). On a Windows box you can use Paint or the "Windows Picture and FAx Viewer" which should be available on pretty much any system.
• If they appear to small zoom out

Now for OziExplorer use I prefer mosaics of maps, ie. I don't like to deal with >1000 maps for a state. Those mosaics are also available for free. I started preparing some DVD sets (have AZ, UT, CO, NM) and some people here (including Mr ExpeditionsWest) have tested these sets. These sets are plug and play for Ozi. They are real time savers, no downloading, importing, organizing, just put a DVD in and copy or run the maps of the disk.

 

[gjackson]

Awesome site! Thanks!

cheers

 

[Ric]

whitethaiger,
thankx man, man that was easy, lol

 

[Bergger]

He just recently finished the project. It's nice to have all the maps in one place. These maps have been available for free on the net for years, but it was always somewhat of a pain to find the download sites.

For those with issues to look at the maps:
One simple way to look at them on a Windows box is to

• download them (right click on the TIFF link and select "Save Link As" or "Save Target As" or whatever your browser has there).
• Open them with almost any graphics program (or try double clicking in Windows Explorer). On a Windows box you can use Paint or the "Windows Picture and FAx Viewer" which should be available on pretty much any system.
• If they appear to small zoom out

Now for OziExplorer use I prefer mosaics of maps, ie. I don't like to deal with >1000 maps for a state. Those mosaics are also available for free. I started preparing some DVD sets (have AZ, UT, CO, NM) and some people here (including Mr ExpeditionsWest) have tested these sets. These sets are plug and play for Ozi. They are real time savers, no downloading, importing, organizing, just put a DVD in and copy or run the maps of the disk.

Cool, thanks. It works fine when I save them to the desk top first.

 

[saltamontes]

USGS 7.5 minute maps. browser settings

in firefox:

Tools/Options/Downloads/View & Edit Actions

find "tif" and "tiff" extensions and change action to:

if MS ofice installed, the default "Microsoft Office Document Imaging" allows for zoom-in to view at 100%.

viewing in browser w/ quicktime is not nearly as usable as it appears to not allow one to zoom in.

otherwise there are many tiff file viewers avail.