Posted: 8/25/2010 4:54:19 PM EDT
| I am wondering if anyone can tell me where to find an old map online of a specific area. My wife and I were trolling through the woods in one of our city parks and found an old road. It was asphalt, but it was only a 100yard section. I just want to see if I can find a map of it cause I never remeber a road being where it is. |
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Quoted: I am wondering if anyone can tell me where to find an old map online of a specific area. My wife and I were trolling through the woods in one of our city parks and found an old road. It was asphalt, but it was only a 100yard section. I just want to see if I can find a map of it cause I never remeber a road being where it is. Um... Google maps Edit: Sorry re-reading your post you said old map. You might still check Google maps or Google Earth as the sattelite view gives you a great perspective where you might see things that you can't see from the ground. Also, one of the 2 have historic maps and/or images depending on the area you are looking for. |
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try this
it might work, but its fairly limited in the regions covered |
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Depending on where you are, many USGS topo maps will show old natural features or old rural roads, etc. I found out why one of the local streets was named "North Spring", there did used to be an old spring there. If it is really old, like already abandoned by 1950 or so, the local municipal or county surveyor or clerk's office may be able to help. If there was a public road, the private property boundaries may still show it even if the road isn't there. Some of my more advanced local towns have this online now as property boundaries within their GIS systems.
Lots of free places to see USGS topos, most probably pull from the old MS Terraserver site, now called http://msrmaps.com/. I like a little program called USAPhotoMaps, available at JDMCox Software, and info page at gpsinformation.net and another. It downloads topo maps and aerial photos across the US, and you can flip back and forth easily. It may appear a little primitive compared to Google Earth and other recent websites, but the big advantage to me is that the maps and photos are downloaded to your computer, so there's no need for the internet once you have them. My data-hoarding self was quite happy to have the 1:100,000 and 1:24,000 topos for the entire US, plus the higher-level aerial photos for the entire US all stored on my hard drive  . Once I get an additional terabyte I may go for the low-level aerials and there is even a 3rd level of detailed aerials in urban centers. There is a batch downloader for USAPhotoMaps that helps download these blocks of area.
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