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Highway Maps ///\\\ BLM Land Use Maps ///\\\ Aeronautical Charts
USGS Topographic DRGs
///\\\ Selected Cities
All examples are from Veyo, UT and southeast toward St. George, and are available in the downloadable archives on this site.
BLM Land Use: approximately 1:1.5M

Yellow is BLM land, blue is state, white is private, other colors are forest, reservations, military, parks, etc. Very useful when boondocking. The state parcels are 1 mile square, left over from the old railroad land grabs. If there is sufficient interest, I'll rescan these to their original dpi, which is double what you see here. Not available for Oregon or Washington. Historically, these maps were available by county, but were discontinued.
manually scanned and stitched in Photoshop

State Highway: approximately 1:1.2M

Each state highway map is proivded by different companies and have differing resolutions and features. All these maps are available free in paper form from each state's visitor centers or by mail. DPI was reduced from the originals.
manually scanned and stitched in Photoshop

Aeronautical ONC: 1:1M

Topographic maps at state scale. These are attractive because the map features are predominately things you can see. However, major highways are not nearly as clear as you would expect.
manually scanned and stitched in Photoshop

Topographic: 1:250K

USGS standard digital raster graphic. Files are compressed in row-ordered packbits, very fast when used in Oziexplorer and nearly optimal compression. The elevation rings at the bottom of this segment represent a magnificient volcano.
DRG from USGS

Topographic: 1:100K

Ditto above. Having both 250K and 100K maps is an advantage, not only because of scale, but many of the included features are different, such as archeo-logical sites.

DRG from USGS

Topographic: 1:24K

Ditto above. These are hiking maps. I can't help but observe that I spent a lot of child-hood days in the pool at the SE corner of this map segment, fed by a hot spring and located at the bottom of a volcanic gorge.
DRG from USGS

There is a great climbing venue in the gorge in the SE corner of this segment.
These MrSid Landsat Image calibration files are available on the site, but the images can only be ordered from this site (no download) or downloaded from NASA.
The image at left is very close to the land use example above. This is the12.5% scale in Oziexplorer. The one below is close to the 250K topographic above. Although these images are in false color, the colors are very representative and can be extraordinary when viewed at large scale. It is particularly interesting to overlay your GPS tracks on these maps. Each image is approximately 30 mb.

Comparisons with maps that are available on the Web.
Map Segments from MapQuest
(contrast has been enhanced slightly)
1:2M (approx)
1:1M (approx)
MapQuest maps are particularly suited to doing screen captures and stitching becaues they are rectilinear (Lat-Long projection).
1:100K (approx)
Map Images from Google Earth
(briteness has been enhanced slightly)
~1:2,000,000
(Veyo is in canyon upper left)
~1:100,000
(intersection in Veyo)
~1:2,000
(St George Temple)