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USGS Maps at Internet Archive

Submitted by Robert Daeley on Tue, 2009-05-19 13:38.

The ever-awesome Internet Archive is hosting a collection of 50,000 USGS maps! How cool is that? And they’re nice resolution TIFF files that you could crop or print for your hikes as desired.

Collections index of the 50 states
California index
All California items, sorted by date added (2,800+ items, 50 items per page)

One tip — use the string “collection:usgs_ca” (minus the quotes) in the search form, and then add any other terms, like say san gorgonio to look for individual maps.

Via the IA collections team’s post “Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map”.

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Around the World in 42 Days

Submitted by Robert Daeley on Tue, 2008-09-23 09:22.

The always-entertaining Strange Maps posted a spiffy entry about a 2005 map that shows how to duplicate Phileas Fogg’s Around the World feat in only 42 days. Jules Verne would be thrilled, I bet.

It’s still possible to travel around the world without airborne transportation, of course. And here also the travel times have greatly diminished since Phileas Fogg’s era. This map is a proposal for a round the world trip, only travelling by boat and train (as Fogg did), starting at and ending in New York. The trip would only take 42 days.

See “309 - Around the World at Twice the Speed of Fogg”.