Category Archives: Maps

These posts contain mapping related information, or links to maps available on the web

Finding Mines and minerals

By admin | November 30, 2008

There is a tool made by a fellow know as Whitethaiger called OziUL.  Its a wonderful tool to use if you like to go find old mines and look for minerals.  Essentially it takes the US mine database information and presents it as points in OziExplorer along with a lot of pertinent information.   Here [...]

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Free Digital Map Links

By admin | November 26, 2008

New York State Historical Maps Stony Brook University Library Map Collection USA Library of Congress American Memory Digital Collection USA Library of Congress Geography and Map Reading Room USA Library of Congress Links National Library of Australia Rare Maps Digitization Project Pierre Auger Observatory Colorado Site University of Colorado at Boulder Map Library Wikikpedia Commons [...]

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OziExplorer files layout

By admin | November 16, 2008

When you have over 33,000 map related object, getting organized is a good idea.  This is the way I decided to layout the OziExplorer related files on my navigation laptop. First, you can tell OziExplorer where to look for maps (the images), and the meta data (the .map files).  This is important because OziExplorer doesn’t [...]

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MAPS…

By admin | October 14, 2008

I was doing some work on GPSForecast, and I ran across this web page from UC Berkley that has a LOT of nice maps (especially useful for you other OziExplorer nuts out there)! The site is the Earth Sciences & Map Library of UC Berkeley … Here is a sample (Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania 1:100,000): Social [...]

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