USGS

> Does anyone know whether the USGS changed their site to where you can no longer download free quad map copies? I went to their web site to do a quad download as I had done many times before, but the only thing that I could get to come up is a page to purchase a copy. I sure don't want to pay $8 for a quad map just to have it.

Appears a few of the links have changed. I started from http://www.usgs.gov/ and used the "Download or Buy Maps" link at the right to get to the map locator and found the download is still there.

This is the site I use.

http://nationalmap.gov/historical/index.html

This is a very cool site - it's amazing what high quality images they have of some very old maps. Maybe there's something to that archiving process...

Thanks to all you guys for your responses about the links. It was some glitch in my computer that was causing my links not to work. I finally got the map I wanted to download and save. I kept getting a "Download Failed" message.

USGS in Rolla, Missouri, the Mid Continent Mapping Center, or at least it used to be that....is a Trimble customer of ours and I have been there an number of times to train them on equipment.

One time, we were back in the bowels of the building and one of the guys asked me if I had ever seen a really big camera... I replied that I had not...he brought me around to a room where the was a camera big enough to stand inside of!

I know next to nothing about cameras and focal lengths, but this was a really BIG camera that he said they used to take photos of old original maps so they could be reproduced.

It was pretty cool...

B-)