The Map Room: Making Your Own Topo Maps

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Making Your Own Topo Maps

Two very different ways of making your own topo maps are explained in the following guides: Kevin Kelly talks about how to download free digital versions of USGS topo maps and print them (via Kottke); GPSFileDepot’s tutorial on how to download mapping data and generate topo maps that can be read by a Garmin GPS unit is somewhat more advanced, to say the least (via Free Geography Tools).

Posted on Saturday, August 9, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Categories: GPS, Topo Maps & Trails

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