[Talk-us] mapRe: (Second attempt) Potential data source: Adirondack Park Freshwater Wetlands

[Kevin Kenny]

On 03/16/2016 06:50 PM, Mike Thompson wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ajt1047 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Another question - if not OSM, what maps do hikers in the area use
>     now?  Something from the US Forest Service, or something else? 
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> Answering the question for the US in general:
> 1) National Geographic Trails Illustrated [1] - Not as detailed as I 
> would like, but shows the official trails and is good enough for most 
> folks.
> 2) USGS 7.5 minute topo quad maps (the old ones). Some of the trails 
> have changed since these were published, but if you are interested in 
> topography for off trail navigation, these are still a great resource.
> 3) National Parks hand out rather general maps, and for a lot of folks 
> this is all they need.
> 4) There are also a number of websites that show trails that have been 
> GPS'ed overlaid on a commercial (unfortunately) map source. e.g. [2]
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Mike already gave a very good answer. Since I'm a hiker in the area, 
I'll confirm that Trails Illustrated maps are what I carried on my 
Northville-Lake Placid trip. I didn't like it very much - the 1:75 000 
scale at which it's printed is just too rough. I also had the relevant 
USGS 7.5-minute topo quads and the relevant portions of my OSM-derived 
map on my smartphone. The old topos are no longer available as 
inexpensive paper copies, alas.

When I hike in New York south of the Mohawk, I carry the much 
higher-quality trail maps produced by the New York-New Jersey Trail 
Conference. http://nynjtc.org/files/JohnBoydThacherTrailMap_2008.pdf is 
a representative example (one of a handful that are free of charge).

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73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin