Cover sheet vicinity maps
Cover sheet vicinity maps
(OP)
I'm hoping someone has a good source for maps that can be legally used for vicinity maps on plan cover sheets. I've noticed some companies copy and paste in on-line maps but I'm under the impression that's not ok for commercial use.
Thanks.
Thanks.





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civilperson, thanks for the suggestion. I've tried this with mixed results. Often times I feel like the contours clutter what should be a clear and simple map.
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Some states have free downloadable vector maps.
For example, Ohio has published vectorized maps for all counties that are georeferenced to State Plane coordinates. You can then turn layers off and add your own information on top, if you wish.
Jeff
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http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tsip/hseb/crs_maps/
Thank you all for the feedback.
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We do ours NTS, and we only really show the route in from a major street, or at least show enough streets to get the correct picture. We do not bother to show more detail than what is needed to see where the site is in the world.
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Mike McCann
McCann Engineering
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Check out the WA DNR (or equivalent) web site.
There are usually links to free GIS resources posted. More and more jurisdictions have some sort of georeferenced raster aerial and/or quad maps available. Terraserver topo maps can be saved and a world file (UTM coordinates) got for each view.
Vector data may be harder to come by, or may need to be translated from ARC/INFO shapefiles.
Jeff
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