[Xastir] CalTopo tiles

[David A Aitcheson]

On 12/13/2012 02:53 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:05 PM, David A Aitcheson
> <david.aitcheson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tom,
>>
>> VERIFY, VERIFY, VERIFY.
>>
>> I looked at the CalTopo maps for my area (FN24BI) and they are all at
>> least FIFTY (50) PLUS years out of date.
>>
>> Street/Road names being way off and total lack of some development is
>> very noticeable.
>>
>> 73
>> Dave
>> KB3EFS
> There are a few things to remember here: CalTopo has created many tile
> sets. Some examples are: historic USGS data, recent USGS topo, recent
> USGS aerial, and visitor maps. Caltopo.com also allows viewing tile
> sets from other sources like OSM and Google.
>
> When I use a USGS topo map in Xastir, I almost always overlay an OSM
> vector map. I agree that it is often not useful to read roads off topo
> maps.
>
> Tom KD7LXL
>
>
In that case I'll stick with what I know is at least 99% correct and
pass on the CalTopo maps.

Dave KB3EFS
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