[Talk-us] scanned USGS Topo Layer?

[Apollinaris Schoell]

as far as I have seen topo maps they are all from the 70’s or older. usually the accuracy is pretty good where things haven’t changed  since. 



On Dec 2, 2013, at 9:37 AM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:

> On 12/2/13 10:01 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
>> 
>> i guess what it comes down to is that the USGS quads are good
>> for topo data but otherwise they're basically historic documents.
> and it turns out the quad that i was interested in, Bash Bish Falls
> on the western CT/MA border, dates from 1958. so the USGS quad
> layer is good for topo and historic info, but it is most assuredly
> not even close to current.
> 
> richard
> 
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