These old topo's could help some of you.

[John 'n' W.Va]

They can show you the old houses, etc. that once stood where it is a field now. What I don't like is I can't zoom in enough. I have the hard copies for all of northern WV. so I don't need this site. It may be a help to a few of you.
http://historical.maptech.com/index.cfm

 

[awhitster]

They can show you the old houses, etc. that once stood where it is a field now. What I don't like is I can't zoom in enough. I have the hard copies for all of northern WV. so I don't need this site. It may be a help to a few of you.

Can you post a link to the site Big John?

 

[Goes4ever]

They can show you the old houses, etc. that once stood where it is a field now. What I don't like is I can't zoom in enough. I have the hard copies for all of northern WV. so I don't need this site. It may be a help to a few of you.

Can you post a link to the site Big John?

hahaha, that is what I was thinking

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

n/t

 

[Goes4ever]

hmmm............. (Edited 1 time(s). Last edit was 3 minutes ago by John 'n' W.Va.)

 

[sandcrab]

I guess Florida was not worth mapping? At least they have some maps for my area on the Sanbourne Maps site,
http://sanborn.umi.com/
username: Residence
password: Welcome

 

[awhitster]

I guess Florida was not worth mapping? At least they have some maps for my area on the Sanbourne Maps site,
http://sanborn.umi.com/
username: Residence
password: Welcome

Looks like Cali doesn't rate either.

 

[liltracs]

Nor NORTH CAROLINA

 

[awhitster]

I guess we all need to go to W. VA to detect

 

[liltracs]

Yeah send us all bus tickets john and we will be studying the maps

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

n/t

 

[garrettguy]

Here's another alternative: I've used a historical topo map KML file for Google Maps. Click on this link Google Earth Library which has a KML file that you can download. The file has a map overlay of most of the northeastern US and a lot of N Carolina, quite a few single places in the west, some maps in the deep south, a lot in Cali, and almost all of WA state. To use the map overlay, start Google Maps, click open to load the file. Then you'll see a bunch of dots showing the location of a map. Click on a map dot see a bubble detail and click on the date of the map to see the overlay. It's not transparent so you can't see both the aerial view and the map simultaneously (but maybe you can adjust it -- don't know) but you can switch between the two. Might be worth a try!

Peter

garrettguy