Questions tagged [topographical-maps]
Questions about topographical (topo) maps
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What are blue long-dashed lines on a French topo?
On a topographic map of Chamonix I noticed these thick long-dashed (and sometimes dotted) blue lines. They appear to connect huts, settlements, and some arbitrary points. They tend to follow glaciers.
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Given a GPS coordinate, can you get the elevation?
I was doing some hiking today and climbed into a gully of sorts. It seemed pretty deep and I'm curious how deep relative to the surrounding land. It'd be cool if I could just plug in arbitrary GPS ...
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Topo map server out there somewhere?
It's winter. I daydream of trips in various areas. Using Google/Apple/Bing maps is frustrating. Openstreet has trails if you are near civilization, but names are weak. None of them have coordinate ...
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How to explain unexpected success following a bearing taken from an iPad
I live in northern British Columbia where the relevant declination values are currently
Magnetic declination: 17° 45.30' East
Grid declination (for Natural Resource Canada's NTS maps): 16° 17.04' ...
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How much vegetation is represented by the green on USGS 7.5 minute topo maps?
On official USGS topo maps, vegetation is represented by green, and non vegetation by white as you can see below.
How much vegetation does an area need to be colored green? Are short bushes enough or ...
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Google Map Hiking Trail
What do the red and blue solid curves in this Google Map indicate?
This is around Dachstein, Austria.
Link:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Dachstein+Krippenstein+-+Dachstein+Tourismus+AG/Lodge+am+...
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Where can I find free electronic topographic map that cover the entire West Coast Trail in Canada?
Where can I find free electronic topographic map that cover the entire West Coast Trail in Canada? I'm trying to print them and bring them for my thru hike.
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"Official" providers of topographic maps per country
If I want to go to some contry, with no specific region in mind yet, I often have trouble to get good topographical information for hiking beforehand. I usually find it rather difficult to discover ...
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Where can I find good topographical maps of Peru? [duplicate]
Disclaimer: I'm not even sure if this is an appropriate question for this forum, but I lack the requisite reputation to ask for a judgement call on meta.
I'm in the very early stages of planning a ...
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UTM Rulers for Odd Scales?
I have a Green Trails map at the scale 1:18,000 and a National Geographic map at the scale 1:35,000 and I can't find UTM corner rulers for either of them.
Shouldn't maps from such popular map makers ...
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How did people make topographical maps in the pre-modern?
I've been getting into making maps with compass and a ruler and just triangulating positions of objects. I would like to start making topographical maps but how?
How did they make them before the ...
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Measuring actual distance walked on a map (Allowing for changes in height)
Following on from this question: How many calories does hiking burn?
So in the same journey my girlfriends tracking app said we'd travelled 20km. Now this was based on us travelling on the flat, but ...
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How to understand contour map and plan a possible trekking route using one such contour map? [duplicate]
I am planning for a trek in coming winters. Thats not a regular or a trodden trail, its more of an optimistic approach onto a mountain. All the information that I have says that I was never a route, ...
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Looking for a Topographical map resource? [duplicate]
Does anyone know of a good way to find topographical maps for either download or purchase?
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