Just a question and a reminiscence:
Does anyone know a source on the web for county maps with townships?
Curiously, I was raised on 7 Cedars Farm just (I think) a couple of miles
from Friendly Grove Church.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Jim Heath
At 09:59 AM 3/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
Well, it is to me! And to anyone else who is interested in Maps and
Charts. Please forward this to other friends who are
interested.
The USGS Topo Maps of the US are now (at last) on the Web. Free! I've
been
waiting a long time for this. Unfortunately, there is a bug in
Internet Explorer for printing them but they are working on that. In the
mean time this is a great step forward for those of us who want access
without buying the costly CD's. Thanks, USGS and Topo Zone!
The URL listed below is an example of the maps. A bit of information
about the map
controls.
At the upper left of the map are 4 scales which allow greater or lesser
resolution
of topography and details such as buildings. I generally start
with the 1:100,000 to home in on my target.
At the upper right of the map are 3 size controls. This selects the
amount of
coverage in the map being displayed. The resolution remains the
same.
The site loads the map by using several small images. The larger the map,
the
longer it is going to take to load because there are more images to
display. The great advantage of this? By moving your cursor to a spot on
the map and left-clicking, the map will be redrawn with that spot as the
center of the map. This allows you the control to slowly adjust the map to
contain all the information that you want.
This URL is for a medium size map centered just NNW of Coalmont, Clay Co.,
IN. If
you scroll to the lower left portion of the map, you will see
Shiloh Church were a number of my father's ancestors are buried. To check
out how it works, go to the upper right of the map and change the size to
"Large". Shiloh is still in the lower left, but now, at the upper right is
Friendly Grove Church (cemetery of my mother's family).
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=39.2274&lon=-87.2427&s=25&...
To get your own map, on the toolbar at the top of the page, click on "Get
a
Map". You can find your spot of interest by either doing a "Search" or
entering a latitude and longitude. If you do the search, enter the nearest
town.... no state. It will then give you a list of options of locations
for the town name you entered. To create the map for the above URL, I
entered Coalmont. It then gave me a list of 5 Coalmonts that it had in its
data base. You can enter other places, such as mountains and the like, but
I have not found that it recognizes cemeteries or churches. A search for
"Shiloh" gave me a town near Dugger - not what I wanted.
Bill Strahle
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