Where can someone buy a 1911 geological survey map? I want one for Bulloch, Liberty and Bryan Counties. SCB ----- Original Message ----- From: <VKRatliff@aol.com> To: <GASCREVE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 11:32 AM Subject: [GASCREVE] "Geodetic" Maps > U. S. Geological Survey maps serve a number of purposes. If one can spot a > location on a quadrangle its not too tough to use a straight edge to get to > the cordinates yourself plus/minus a few "seconds" or two, thus eliminating > the need to buy a GPS for a one time use. Although these GPS things aren't > cheap, they are coming down all the time. I think the last one I saw was > couple hundred bucks. > > I plotted coordinates off of a quadrangle recently and put them on an > inventory of a "thought"-lost cemetery. > > Doing this has a couple of advantages. First, John Doe Road and Richard Roe > Street may not even be there a hundred years from now. With "conventional" > directions that future seeker is out of luck. But unless somebody explodes > the planet, those coordinates will always be the same and with a GPS one can > walk straight to the spot a thousand years from now. > > Second, one can be dealing with a landowner who is slightly anxious about > "publicity" and anticipates a bunch of amateur and/or destructive > genealogists showing up the next day (this rarely happens but its always an > apprehension for this type landowner even if you gave 'em a holy writ). > > The landowner doesn't want the publicity and you don't want to inventory a > cemetery and not provide a location. So, just list the coordinates......99% > of the "casual" genealogists around won't have the foggiest notion what that > string of numbers even is. But a "pro", whom we all like to presume will > treat the land and the landowner with a degree of respect, will read those > numbers in a heartbeat. With quadrangle in hand he or she will be right on > the money in a few minutes. > > My question: several of the previous posts have referred to "geodetic" maps > and the implication given is that they are much more detailed than geological > survey quadrangles. I have always thought the geodetics were very large > scale and made only for dialing in or out the curvature of the earth. Is > "geodetic" just another name some are using for the same quadrangles or is > there a better source I've been missing here? > > Thanks, > > John M. Poythress > > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >