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[Scott]

The next best thing is to use an aviation sectional chart.  They have 
the lines of lattitude and longitude already printed on them, so all 
you'd need to do is take a marker and draw on the right lines.  For our 
"area" two charts would probably do ya...the Twin Cities Sectional and 
the Green Bay sectional.  Both available at the Eau Claire airport... I 
can help you with that, Dave, if need be...the disadvantage is they only 
show the major roads and a few roads that are prominent from the air...

Scott N0EDV
http://corbenflyer.tripod.com/
Gotta Fly or Gonna Die
Building RV-4 (Super Slow Build Version)



John P. Toscano wrote:

>
>
> Dave Aho - N9TTX wrote:
>
>>
>> Here's a weird wanted item.
>>
>>    I am looking for a large MN and WI map  with the
>> Grid squares superimposed on them.  Anyone have
>> something like this with the streets and
>> highways...not just a geographical map.  Basically
>> looking for EN28 thru EN23/EN68 square.  or some such
>> thing for roving in June.  Also if anyone has a CD of
>> "Roverlog" I need it for the laptop.
>>
>>      Dave...N9TTX
>
>
> Dave:
>
> How large is "large"?  Seems it would need to be monstrously large to 
> cover that area with street level detail.  Do you plan to use it to 
> wallpaper your shack, or were you thinking you could fold it up and 
> carry it around with you as a rover?
>
> Recent versions of Delorme software (Topo USA, 3D TopoQuads, etc.) 
> have a "tiled print" feature in which you can select a large area and 
> have the software print it out on a single sheet, on a 2x2 array of 
> sheets, or on a 3x3 array of sheets.  The latter would allow you to 
> have a 25.5" x 33" map once you pasted the sheets together.  I don't 
> think that at that magnification, you'd yet have much street-level 
> detail.  But you could do that whole process 4 or 9 or 25 times, and 
> create an ever larger mosaic of maps.
>
> Oh, and by the way, before you start any printing, you would have to 
> draw in the grid lines yourself, using the annotation tools that are 
> included in the program.  The good news there is that you can draw 
> lines by specifying lat/long of the endpoints, and so can create 
> pretty accurate grid boxes with a bit of patience.
>
> Getting back to reality, if the 3x3 mosaic of maps was good enough, 
> Delorme used to have available a handy transparent plastic map holder 
> thingie into which you could slip your 9 maps to make a large map with 
> no gluing/taping/etc. and folded up neatly.  I don't know if they 
> still have them.
>
> Another thought, inspired by a previous Aurora presentation on roving. 
> You are wanting to cover an area of 5 x 6 = 30 grids.  Perhaps you 
> could print out 30 maps, one of each grid.  Or better yet, since 
> rovers often are concerned about grid corners, there would be 20 grid 
> "corners" inside that area (4 x 5 of them for 5 x 6 grids), and you 
> could print out 20 maps centered on the GRID CORNER.  In any case, 
> when you had your maps all printed, you could put them in a 3-ring 
> binder and flip to the page of interest.
>
> If you decide to go this (Delorme software) route, you will be best 
> off with TopoUSA with a single DVD holding the entire USA.  The 3D 
> TopoQuads would require buying one DVD or one set of CD's per state, 
> and your area of interest includes MN, WI, IA, MI, and IL if I'm not 
> mistaken. And don't worry, they are not ONLY topographic maps, they 
> also have very detailed street-level detail if you zoom in enough.
>
> We have some folks on this list who are even more infatuated with maps 
> than I am, and they could probably point you to a source of large-size 
> maps, but my guess is that you would not find one with Maidenhead Grid 
> Squares printed on them, since it is my understanding (or possibly, my 
> mis-understanding) that the Maidenhead Grid Square system was a Ham 
> Radio invention across the pond years ago, and not a "mainstream 
> cartography". OTOH, it's sufficiently mainstream that Garmin includes 
> it in most of their modern GPS receivers...  In any event, I suppose 
> if you found a good map or set of maps, you could draw in the grid 
> squares yourself if the map(s) had lat/long markers on it/them.
>
> Good luck.
> W0JT, John
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