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fouristhenewone
11-03-2006, 10:02 AM
This is a pretty cool thing. This guy took donations to purchase the whole collection of these and put them up for free usage and download.

http://libremap.org/
Iceaxe
11-03-2006, 10:27 AM
Nice Find!!! :2thumbs:

That is an awesome resource, thank
RedMan
11-04-2006, 11:38 AM
That is cool.

If all you want is a big map in a file its great.

I much prefer Nat Geo TOPO because I can markup, make trails, download to a GPS etc. I have Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, California, Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota and Montana on my laptop. It all appears as one giant seamless topo to me.

For Utah stuff take a look here: http://agrc.utah.gov/agrc_sgid/sgidintro.html

Tons of great stuff, including the free topo quads.

There are bunches of freeware tools that ake advantage of the free quads but I find all of them to be huge PIA. I have more money than time to spend on mapping software so I prefer to let National Geo do the work.