In the digital cartography age, it’s easy to overlook traditional paper maps.
Nowadays, they’re becoming obsolete like old floppy disks.
But they still serve their purpose in our day in age.
Here are 3 advantages of paper maps over their digital counterparts.
According to new data from the Rhodium Group analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise will consume coastlines and dangerous levels of humidity will swamp the Mississippi River valley
The FSTopo cartographic database supports the creation of 1:24,000-scale, 7.5-minute topographic PDF maps for the conterminous United States and Puerto Rico, and 15 minute x 20-22.5 minute, 1:63,360-scale maps over Alaska. The FSTopo Area of Interest covers the USFS National Forests and Grasslands. The cartographic database is updated accordingly as new data sources are added by means of data revision activities, which are coordinated between the National Forest/Grassland units and the USFS Geospatial Techology Applications Center (GTAC).
This map shows the boundaries of all of the state forests in New York State, along with a balloon showing the center point for each state forest, along with the associated DEC website on the forest.