Google Earth Community: US Army and USGS Service Topographic Maps v 15

The exceptional online resources of the Perry-Castañeda Library of the University of Texas at Austin provide a series of topographic maps created by the US Army Map Service. They date primarily from the 1940s and 1950s, so they are more detailed in areas of military concern during and after World War II. You can see the full TABLE OF CONTENTS. The USGS quadrangles are listed in the USA INDEX.

While the maps are somewhat outdated, they are excellent for locating tiny villages, finding islands which are not visible or named, and obtaining topographic details.

When using them in conjunction with Google Earth, it is often rather difficult to quickly find the specific map which covers an area of interest. This posting is designed to provide both the global area quadrangles and the city maps which show far greater details.

(The download file is only about 112 KB.)

With the addition of eastern Europe, Version 14 provides a set of 3,529 rectangles, with 4,387 clickable links in the icon bubbles which will load the relevent maps in your browser.

BLUE: World, 2,516 rectangles with links to 3,318 maps, scale = 1 : 250,000
RED: World, 348 maps, scale = 1 : 1,000,000
GREEN: Africa, 31 maps, scale = 1 : 2,000,000
YELLOW: 690 City Maps have been provided globally. The east Asian region is illustrated here:

Sample: The following area in South Africa shows a large green Africa-36 map (1:2,000,000), three red World maps (SH 35, SH 36, and SI 35 at 1:1,000,000), many small blue quadrangles (1:250,000), and three yellow city maps (Bloemfontein, Durban, and East London).

Edited by PriceCollins (03/24/08 02:40 PM)

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