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Cruiser
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| Most of my riding is in NW Florida, and all the county roads aren't even on the county maps. I've never owned a GPS but from looking at a friends it appears these little roads aren't always on there either. I'm planning a little trip to B'ham AL (one of the links below has a couple nice riding in that area) and would like to be able to pull up detailed county maps so I'm not on the interestate the whole way. I guess the easiest solution is to leave myself plenty of time and just enjoy if I get lost a bit but it seems there should be a source for these roads. Here's a few good links I have: http://www.floridacountiesmap.com/counties_list.shtml http://www.motorcycleroads.com/index.htm http://www.amvtwin.com/great_florida_rides.html ~Shy |
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Tourer
Posts: 548
Mount Vernon, WA United States | Your best bet really is a good GPS, however.. another place to look is go to the County website of the county you are interested in and contact the GIS (Geographic Information System) folks. They are the ones that do all the mapping for the roads, houses, taxes, drainage, etc. All counties are not equal, but if they don't actually have the maps you are looking for they will be able to point you to the best maps for the area. It's what they do.
Also, http://www.google.com/maps maps are getting pretty good, but it depends on if they have updated your area yet and they have street level views of many areas.
Finally, last but certainly not least... http://www.bing.com/maps/ They have 3-d views and seem to be pretty up to date as well.
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Cruiser
Posts: 141
| http://shop.delorme.com/OA_HTML/DELibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=100...
The gazateer will show every road from all the states in the list. Great for pre- planning but a little large to carry. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 69
| Do you know if those roads are also in the 39.95 street atlas package? It'd be great to have them on the 'puter for planning and then be able to print them out. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 97
Okeefenokee Swamp | Try a good county court house.
just kidding, I coulld'nt resist. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 208
Wichita, Kansas | Try the official state site. Kansas has an official state map that shows most paved roads. If Kansas has it, surely everyone else does! |
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Cruiser
Posts: 69
| I've tried the Chamber of Commerce, the courthouse (I'm certainly there enough) as well as the FL and AL state sites. AL has county maps but most of the roads don't have numbers: http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/contemporarymaps/alabama/counties/index.html |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 742
North Orange County CA | I would check with the Automobile Club. AAA also has some pretty nice online mapping/trip planning software. |
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Cruiser
Posts: 192
Republic of Tejas | Realize this won't directly help your situation but see if you can find something similar to the following on maybe the FSU website, or whatever the Florida version of the Texas Department of Transportation might be. I just download them, then plot them out for rides.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/txdot/browse.html
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Visionary
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Pitt Meadows, BC Canada | Wouldn't own a GPS - I like to get lost. To find a road - just make a turn that you haven;t done before. If it runs dry - turn around and see the sights from the other direction.
If you need to get somewhere - take a cab. |
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Where do you find good county maps?