I like the Deedmapper maps because they are less cluttered but I keep a set of the USDA topos on hand (paper copies) and make a transparency when I need to look at some of the smaller creeks and branches on various plats. The smaller creeks are crucial to locating some of the plats I work with. Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marie Robinson" <marie50@charter.net> To: <DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 10:40 AM Subject: RE: [DMU] Deed-Mapper maps > JoLee--I can respond re: the small creeks--I use exclusively the Deed-Mapper > maps, and prefer them, but they seem to not include the small streams that > might trickle off and may appear on other maps or appear on older maps. > It's possible the terrain changed and the little creeks are no longer there. > I think I was once told that the Deed-Mapper maps are USGS maps, though I'm > sure Steve Broyles can tell us better. I do prefer the Deed-Mapper maps. > > Also nothing is identified--they just include streams and roads and outlines > of other things I don't recall what they are. I think railroad overlays can > be ordered. > > Marie. > > >I have scanned and used the Topo maps, and I am the first to say it would > >help to have less clutter. But, having the small creeks is a > >great help in fine-tuning. > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >