Terraserver shutting down May 1

[dgood71]

Microsoft is taking down their Terraserver on May 1.  I'm not sure how much this will affect Topofusion, but I believe we'll lose access to some aerial and topo tilesets.  Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but firugred even if it was it's important enough to mention again.  If I'm wrong about losing tilesets, great!  But of not, I wanted to make others aware.  Here's the announcement link from Microsoft:

http://msrmaps.com/About.aspx?n=AboutShutdown

[ScottMorris]

Thanks for the post.  This does indeed mean that the base Topo and B/W aerial tilesets in TopoFusion will be going away.  Better get out there and download and tiles you want/need!

I'll do a new version that still allows access to existing tiles, but makes it so they no longer try to download, with an appropriate message.

Terraserver was a key component in starting TopoFusion and we were very fortunate to be able to use their maps for so long.  Luckily myTopo maps are so much better, and many of the other tilesets have superseded the B/W aerials since then, so the future of TF still looks bright!

[KenF]

Thanks for the post.  This does indeed mean that the base Topo and B/W aerial tilesets in TopoFusion will be going away. 

Is TerraServer the only source of the oldie-but-goodie classic USGS topos? I may need to start doing some serious downloading. The My Topo maps are great - as topo maps, but sometimes the the original USGS quads have historically interesting data that has been omitted.

KenF

[dgood71]

I believe you can download the "classic" topos in PDF form now, but that won't help you in Topofusion.  Unfortunately I don't have a link, but I'm guessing the USGS site would have more info.

[ScottMorris]

4.5 is out with a new US Topo tileset -- seems to be hosting the same topo's as Terraserver.

[Offsides]

"4.5 is out with a new US Topo tileset -- seems to be hosting the same topo's as Terraserver."

Alas, it seems to be downloading tile areas that I already have...

Bill

[ScottMorris]

Bill - sorry, I should have made that more clear.

The new "US Topo" is a completely new tileset in a different map projection.  So, yes, you will be starting over from scratch.  There's no reasonable/good way to combine them, unfortunately.  Any old maps you had downloaded will still be available, but only as their own tileset in the old "Topo 2M, Topo 4M, etc" tilesets.