I have NY, NJ, PA, CT, RI, MA, VT, and NH downloaded -- Maine should finish sometime tomorrow. John A Sperr PO Box 573 Rhinebeck NY 12572-0573 ...
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gnuarm
Mar 27, 2012 6:25 pm
What type of images are you downloading, 4 meter topo? If you pick up Ohio and then get the pan handle of WV you will have zone 17 down to row 5000 (I'm doing...
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dbcoooper1
Mar 28, 2012 1:53 am
I'll work on finishing zone 13 since I'm pretty close. Already have all of 10,11 & 12 (in topo)....
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John T
jft43
Mar 28, 2012 12:47 pm
If no one else has it I will take zones 14 and 15 from the bottom of MO to the top of IA. I will attempt to get both levels of Photos and both of the topos if...
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gnuarm
Mar 28, 2012 3:30 pm
That sounds good. That's a lot of area, how much disk space is this using? I just downloaded the lower half of zone 17 (not even including Florida) and it...
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Edward C. Schaub
edwardschaub
Mar 28, 2012 3:54 pm
I have just started to be interested in this problem and as a retired surveyor stuck in the Lat/Long era I need some help in figuring how to help in this...
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gnuarm
Mar 28, 2012 3:58 pm
That will be great John. I'm not thinking about the 1 meter photo yet as that will be 16 times as much data as the 4 meter topo and I think we will need a lot...
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gnuarm
Mar 28, 2012 4:15 pm
Actually, I misspoke in the message you replied to. We also have Simon working on this so we have five and now six! Welcome aboard. In fact, Simon says he...
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John T
jft43
Mar 28, 2012 4:41 pm
Rick, I'm not sure on the size of the area yet, but will let you know on each of the different photo and topo levels. I would like to do KS and NE in zone 14,...
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gnuarm
Mar 28, 2012 8:01 pm
Here is the region file for the eastern part of Michigan in zone 17. I gave it a test and it seems to be working ok. Copy the text below to a file named,...
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Wickiup
jcurts
Mar 29, 2012 4:12 am
Sorry to jump into the middle of things here but need help to organize some downloaded map info. I am not a map guru and only use them as aides to recall...
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BigDave
s67bigdave
Mar 29, 2012 4:15 am
Hello Everyone, I'm Dave Simmons, I live in Southern California. I Have been using USAPhotoMaps for some years now, Although I have very little downloaded,...
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gnuarm
Mar 29, 2012 4:26 am
The answer is "it depends". First, the low resolution images go in the BigPhotoMapsData directory, that would be 64 meter topo maps, 8 meter photos and 4...
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Jim Curts
jcurts
Mar 29, 2012 6:25 am
Thanks Rick, Â It seems to be doing okay and I am filling in the blank spots. Just have to put all the waypoint files together and will be singing in tall...
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tubepowerel84@...
tubepowerel84
Mar 29, 2012 10:08 am
Yes, there is. I tried it and it works great: (from the site of TerraFetcher (http://www.starrsoft.com/freeware/TerraFetcher/)) <quote> MERGING DATA FILES: A...
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gnuarm
Mar 29, 2012 8:00 pm
I was looking at the 64 meter topos for Michigan and realized there was a part missing north of Detroit. When I downloaded the parts available I saw that...
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gnuarm
Mar 29, 2012 8:18 pm
I didn't realize the merge utility would process an entire directory of files. That makes things a bit easier to use for Jim if he needs it, which it sounds...
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Timothy Barney
tbarney2004
Mar 31, 2012 8:06 am
I'm also interested as well. I have a decent connection (30Mbit down) so I'm running 6-8 instances of Terra Fetcher simultaneously. 6 I have doing all types...
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gnuarm
Mar 31, 2012 12:41 pm
Your participation is great! Please keep in mind that if you download by state the data is hard to share unless you complete all portions of a zone across any...
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ahansen937@...
golddredger9
Mar 31, 2012 4:23 pm
Question, New at this. How do I use the downloaded files with Terra Fetcher in USAPhotoMaps. Al from Oregon In a message dated 3/31/2012 1:06:10 A.M. Pacific...
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Timothy Barney
tbarney2004
Mar 31, 2012 5:58 pm
You will use Terra Fetcher to download the non "BIG" data (3 types - TOPO, Photo, and Urban) to the \USAPhotoMapsDir\USAPhotoMapsData\ directory and the "BIG"...
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Timothy Barney
tbarney2004
Mar 31, 2012 6:02 pm
I do plan to get complete zones, I was just starting at one coast with what I already previously had complete and working my way west. I will be burning them...
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Timothy Barney
tbarney2004
Mar 31, 2012 6:05 pm
I also stand corrected on how much needs to be checked for high res urban photos. I left Alabama and Maine complete to start downloading, AL has 53,867,383...
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six_caver
Mar 31, 2012 10:12 pm
Greetings all. Not sure if this has been mentioned already. I've only just now started reading through the recent flurry of messages. There are a set of...
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six_caver
Mar 31, 2012 10:12 pm
Also, another note. When I run TerraFetcher on Windows 7, the performance is noticeably slower. I've had to run TerraFetcher in Windows XP mode in order to...
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gnuarm
Apr 1, 2012 12:28 am
Hi Alfredo, We have several others already doing a lot of the topo maps. If you read the thread, "New Plan, Download Areas by Zone", you will get an idea of...
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gnuarm
Apr 1, 2012 12:46 am
That is good, but it may be duplication of what others are doing. The entire US has been covered in the 64 meter topos. We have the east coast pretty well...
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gnuarm
Apr 1, 2012 12:54 am
Hi Al. When you use Terrafetcher to download the tiles they are placed in "row" files in the USAPhotoMaps data directories. Then USAPM can use them directly...
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Timothy Barney
tbarney2004
Apr 1, 2012 1:28 am
Significant non-land areas (Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, Hudson River/NY Harbor/Long Island Sound, the Potomac River, Atlantic/Pacific Oceans, etc) that have...
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dbcoooper1
Apr 1, 2012 3:22 am
Zone 13 finished in 4 meter topo here. Currently beginning to check for/fill in any blank tiles via Terrafetcher and Rick's advice, for zones 10-13. It...
