{"id":1411,"date":"2012-03-06T19:19:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T01:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2012-03-06T19:19:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T01:19:28","slug":"every-us-topographic-map-you-ever-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/every-us-topographic-map-you-ever-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Every US topographic map you ever wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa Geographic Information Server has long had 1:24,000 and 1:100,000 topo maps available on its <a href=\"http:\/\/ortho.gis.iastate.edu\">map and photo site<\/a>, but the USGS has taken it one step further.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/store.usgs.gov\/b2c_usgs\/usgs\/maplocator\/(xcm=r3standardpitrex_prd&amp;layout=6_1_61_48&amp;uiarea=2&amp;ctype=areaDetails&amp;carea=%24ROOT)\/.do\">Zoom where you want. Then set a marker, get a list.<\/a>\u00a0Select and download.\u00a0<em>You must have cookies enabled to see the map. The PDFs are VERY large.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cida.usgs.gov\/hqsp\/apex\/f?p=262:1:3484925965578404\">Search by place name here.<\/a> (You must know the name of the &#8220;quadrangle&#8221;, though, which you likely don&#8217;t.)<\/p>\n<p>For example, here&#8217;s what shows up for Traer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2010 Traer topo map overlaid on aerial\/satellite photos (1:24,000)<\/li>\n<li>1971 Traer topo map with contours and dots for buildings (1:24,000) (the &#8220;traditional&#8221; topo map)<\/li>\n<li>1984 Marshalltown (1:100,000) original<\/li>\n<li>1984 Marshalltown (1:100,000) photorevised 1989<\/li>\n<li>1955 Waterloo (1:250,000) original file (why this was made after the following I don&#8217;t know)<\/li>\n<li>1954 Waterloo (1:250,000) revised 1967, one with a 1968 stamp and one with a 1973 stamp but otherwise apparently the same map<\/li>\n<li>1954 Waterloo (1:250,000) revised 1978, shown with I-35 complete<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The download list does not differentiate between the originals and photorevised versions without a little extra work. Hover over the year in the listing and it will give more information. It is not pure reverse chronological order.<\/p>\n<p>Point. Click. Drink from the firehose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa Geographic Information Server has long had 1:24,000 and 1:100,000 topo maps available on its map and photo site, but the USGS has taken it one step further. Zoom where you want. Then set a marker, get a list.\u00a0Select &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/every-us-topographic-map-you-ever-wanted\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}