Texas County Highway Maps

[buck000]

http://txdot.lib.utexas.edu/maptexas.html

Very detailed online maps of Texas roads, by county. It's a bit hard to get around, but can drill down really well to a particular area...

For example, Lime Creek Road. (http://txdot.lib.utexas.edu/txdot-show.html?resolution=50&newWxH=1024x768&image=tctr av01.sid&TLx=574&TLy=476&px=93&py=18&pr=50&fw=7314 &fh=5420&map.x=538&map.y=384)

;-)

[VFRinAustin]

:-D

Very nice Paul, this should come in handy the next time I go on a long ride where I have never been before. Like sometime in 2010 :-(

[Tourmeister]

:tab That's pretty cool. I wish you could just pan across county lines and it would show a contiguous image without having to view each county one at a time. Also, I noticed that it shows roads in many places where I know for a fact there are no roads because I have already gone looking for them ;-)

Adios,

[cmcnamee]

Another source for good, detailed maps is Shearer Publishing in Fredricksburg, TX. They make printed maps as detailed as the on-line ones from TXDOT.

Have fun!

Carl

[Fred Hendon]

if you ever find a map book called texas atlas and gazetteer grab and hang on to it ,has every road and trail on it you care to see includeing lime kiln road.Is the salt lick b-b-q place still open in drftwood,tx?The atlas is published by delorme mapping,po box 298,freeport maine 04032 phone is 207 865 4171.keep it vertical.

[buck000]

I really like the Gazetteer, as Fred Hendon says.

Re: Carl's recommendation about the Shearer Publishing, I just realized that "The Roads of Texas" book that I have is published by Shearer, and is basically the roads compiled from the Texas A&M Cartographics lab, very similar to the link at the beginning of this thread.

So, with the book, we can span counties quite nicely... ;-)

[Tourmeister]

:tab Actually, the Garmin Software is pretty good as well. The only problem is that it even shows dirt roads that cut across pastures behind locked gates :-| So if you aren't familiar with the route beforehand, you may be doing some backtracking as you explore. But that is fun too... ;-)

Adios,

[John Bennett]

Cool.

[Trailace]

:tab Actually, the Garmin Software is pretty good as well. The only problem is that it even shows dirt roads that cut across pastures behind locked gates :-| So if you aren't familiar with the route beforehand, you may be doing some backtracking as you explore. But that is fun too... ;-)

Adios,
Sometimes lots of backtracking. :-)

[gotdurt]

I really like the Gazetteer, as Fred Hendon says.

Re: Carl's recommendation about the Shearer Publishing, I just realized that "The Roads of Texas" book that I have is published by Shearer, and is basically the roads compiled from the Texas A&M Cartographics lab, very similar to the link at the beginning of this thread.

So, with the book, we can span counties quite nicely... ;-)

"The Roads of Texas" blows away the "Gazetteer" (Texas anyway), IMHO. Larger scale, better detail, and the pages don't fall out!

[Cagiva 549]

If you have the delorme book look of the coast of Galveston and see if the Atlantic ocean is still there . SEYA

[Tourmeister]

Not in mine ;-)