Elizabeth Lawrence suggested, for maps with township, section, and range numbers: www.topozone.com I tried it. YES!!! However! Beware that these maps have confusing and irrelevant numbers stamped on them -- irrelevant because I have no idea what they are -- but you CAN figure it out by scrolling around north and south and east and west until you bump into markings for things such as ranges, which you will find eventually if you scroll enough, and which pop out like pot o' gold when they come into view. Once you find the range markings, you can figure out which numbers are the section numbers versus the other numbers that have been added only to confuse and annoy. Scroll by using the arrow marks on the periphery of the map, in the middles of the borders. Like on mapquest. Lester ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

Hi Lester I am laughing out loud! Those numbers (which you can designate on the maps) are latitudes and longitudes.... (listed as D/M/S) Degrees, minutes, seconds, or UTM's (Universal Transverse Mercator grid... forget these for now) But lat/longs are easy. Most places in Oregon are north of 40 degrees latitude (that's the line running through Boulder Colorado, and probably San Francisco, CA) and the longitude west of the 100th meridian E/W.... (that's the beginning of the "great American Desert"), somewhere out in Kansas/Nebraska.... that's the WEST! At any rate, I'm glad that you see the value in these maps, and topozone is just wonderful! I've used it for a long time. What I really like about Topozone is that you can just type in a name of a city, river, area, valley, etc, and it will more or less zero into that area! And they are printable, etc. Take them along on your next trip! Thanks! Liz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lester M Powers" <lesterps@juno.com> To: <OREGON-TRAIL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 6:33 PM Subject: Topozone online maps > Elizabeth Lawrence suggested, for maps with > township, section, and range numbers: > > www.topozone.com > > I tried it. YES!!! However! Beware that these > maps have confusing and irrelevant numbers stamped on > them -- irrelevant because I have no idea what they are -- > but you CAN figure it out by scrolling around north and > south and east and west until you bump into markings > for things such as ranges, which you will find eventually > if you scroll enough, and which pop out like pot o' gold > when they come into view. Once you find the range > markings, you can figure out which numbers are the > section numbers versus the other numbers that have been > added only to confuse and annoy. > > Scroll by using the arrow marks on the periphery > of the map, in the middles of the borders. Like on > mapquest. > > Lester