I’m happy to announce a couple of long-overdue additions to CalTopo. The first, one-off maps, allows you to create and share a map without tying it to your account. You can also save maps to your browser using HTML5 local storage, which helps lay the groundwork for an offline version of CalTopo. And, maps are […]
CalTopo has supported PDF printing for a little while, but it was tucked away until I made sure that generating the PDFs wouldn’t overload my server. It’s now front and center in the UI, along with higher resolution PDFs and an important new feature – multi-page map packs. First off, clicking the print icon in […]
Elevation profiles have been a bit of a weak area on CalTopo. You could draw a profile and get point elevation data along the path, but that was it. The profile function has now been updated with a couple key features: More sample points used Distance measurements provided for the x-axis Gross elevation gain and […]
Visitor maps – the nice brochures they give you at park entrances or the giant Forest Service road maps with nary a topo line on them – aren’t terribly useful for backcountry navigation. However they can be great for visualizing roads and trails at a 10,000′ view and then switching over to other layers as […]
Without much fanfare, the Forest Service recently redid its 7.5 minute quads. The previous version, on CalTopo until now, was called the Primary Base Series. They were produced “back in the day”, offset printed, and then scanned into TIFF files. They had roads and trails that were lacking on USGS maps, and perhaps just as […]
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