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Title: Where do you get your Topo maps?
Post by: FarmerMarley on September 07, 2012, 12:23:00 PM
Hey Everybody,

I've been trying to plan a hunt in Northern California (sonoma county) and been looking at various online services for topo maps.

DO any of you pay for one of these online services for digital maps then print your own? Or do you order maps some other way? It seems like there are a lot of benefits to some of these services but I'm not sure if they are worth the $$

I'm looking at places that are not so popular that you can get the maps at an outdoor recreation store..

Thanks for the help!
Title: Re: Where do you get your Topo maps?
Post by: Roadkill on September 07, 2012, 12:28:00 PM
My forest fire fighting friend said to go to the FS office in the distict and ask for them-ensure they are the water resitent kind.  You can go online and find them as well. Have not tried it yet, but intend to
Title: Re: Where do you get your Topo maps?
Post by: wingnut on September 07, 2012, 01:12:00 PM
I've bought most of mine at the USFS.  But have downloaded maps and printed them also.  Topomaps.com was were I got mine.

Mike
Title: Re: Where do you get your Topo maps?
Post by: DayTripper on September 07, 2012, 01:20:00 PM
I used United State Geographic Survey (USGS)
Title: Re: Where do you get your Topo maps?
Post by: John Scifres on September 07, 2012, 01:31:00 PM
I always get a custom map from mytopo.com of the areas I'm gonna hunt out west.  Waterproof 24"x36" are $15-20.
Title: Re: Where do you get your Topo maps?
Post by: ChuckC on September 07, 2012, 02:49:00 PM
x2 on the MyTopo.com site

I have MANY maps from them and I always get them quick and easy.  On their site, you build you own map, so . .  if your map takes parts from 3-7 USGS topo maps, so be it. .  one quality map, one price.
ChuckC
Title: Re: Where do you get your Topo maps?
Post by: snag on September 07, 2012, 03:16:00 PM
Check out  http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html

You can use the topo mode or do an aerial view and other modes too. Best of all it's free!
Title: Re: Where do you get your Topo maps?
Post by: speedwalker on September 07, 2012, 06:05:00 PM
X3 for MyTopo.com
Title: Re: Where do you get your Topo maps?
Post by: Wickles on September 07, 2012, 11:59:00 PM
X4 mytopo.com
Title: Re: Where do you get your Topo maps?
Post by: Lost Arra on September 08, 2012, 07:06:00 AM
mytopo.com

fast service and great maps
Title: Re: Where do you get your Topo maps?
Post by: Medic85 on September 08, 2012, 10:10:00 AM
X6 for mytopo.com.  They are great maps and they get it to you fast.