Good news is that as time goes on, more signs are being put up along the route to denote the Historical Route 66 and some maps are including parts of Route 66 as a tourist or scenic highway. However, these sorts of signs and denotations are not consistent along the route, and are sometimes conflicting and confusing, so the best way to find the route and stick to it is with the help of a good guidebook or Route 66 specific map. We highly recommend the EZ66 Guide and some good road maps (see our list of Planning Resources towards the bottom of the post).
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Flipping through printed travel guides and printable street maps is passé. Tech tools are far more efficient at keeping your plans organized and easily accessible. As a frequent traveler, I always turn to a few time savers: building your own travel maps, using an itinerary management app and keeping important travel notes in a digital spreadsheet.
Various materials related to South Carolina geology are available for a nominal fee to cover printing and shipping cost from the Geological Survey at DNR. Topics include SC minerals and rocks, geologic maps, Geologic Quadrangle Maps, Open-File Maps and reports, Field Trip Guidebooks, mineral resources series, and other related topics.
South Carolina Flood Maps SC Flood Mitigation Map
The South Carolina Flood Mitigation Program at DNR provides access to floodplain maps produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). A complete set of reference maps for South Carolina is available and staff are available to answer questions and provide assistance to map users.
Printable Maps
Downloadable printable maps below are in Adobe PDF format.
South Carolina 7.5-Minute Topographic Maps Index
South Carolina 7.5-Minute Topographic Maps Index
The following index shows the boundary for USGS 7.5-minute (1:24,000 scale) Topographic quadrangles for South Carolina. The map includes the name of the quadrangle with some basic reference data.
Map size: 22 x 17 inches (1,584 x 1,224 pt)
File size: 3.9 MB
Here’s a map of Mexico’s five states the U.S. deemed most dangerous, as well as the general warnings across the rest of the country. The State Department gave Mexico a level 2 travel warning overall, encouraging travelers to exercise increased caution in general.
Why fumble around with a printed map when you can tailor a digital one just for your trip? (Even in areas with spotty cell service, you can still make use of digital maps so long as you download offline maps ahead of time.) The My Maps web app from travel maps has been my most powerful travel planning tool for years.
Using the street map creator on a computer browser, you can look up points of interest like museums, restaurants and hotels and pin them on a map. To make the pins easy to read, you can color-code them or mark them with symbols — like an icon of a spoon and a knife for restaurants, or an icon of a bed for hotels. You can add notes to each point of interest, like a few words about the type of food served at a restaurant. You can also create “layers” to help organize your trip — for example, I create a new layer for each day of the trip. After making your custom map, you can call it up via the travel city maps app on a smartphone, in a menu labeled Your places.
The main benefit of this exercise is that the visual context of a map can help you plan each day around the proximity of points of interest. For example: When planning a trip to Taiwan this year, I created a layer for Day 1 and pinned a museum in northern Taipei along with some restaurants and a fish market in the area. After visiting the museum, I tapped on the nearest pin and loaded directions to walk to it. Using this routine, I visited nearly everything I wanted to see on the 10-day trip.
In the bad old days when I went on trips without custom maps, I jotted down a list of places I wanted to visit. Each day, I wasted far too much time, phone battery and cellular data figuring out which landmark to visit, how to get there and what to do afterward.
There’s another way custom maps save time. When your friends are visiting a country you have traveled to and bug you for your “bucket list” recommendations, you can simply send a street map invitation to the friend to view your map. That is far more useful than sharing a list of places to go.
Various materials related to South Carolina geology are available for a nominal fee to cover printing and shipping cost from the Geological Survey at DNR. Topics include SC minerals and rocks, geologic maps, Geologic Quadrangle Maps, Open-File Maps and reports, Field Trip Guidebooks, mineral resources series, and other related topics.
South Carolina Flood Maps SC Flood Mitigation Map
The South Carolina Flood Mitigation Program at DNR provides access to floodplain maps produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). A complete set of reference maps for South Carolina is available and staff are available to answer questions and provide assistance to map users.
Printable Maps
Downloadable printable maps below are in Adobe PDF format.
South Carolina 7.5-Minute Topographic Maps Index
South Carolina 7.5-Minute Topographic Maps Index
The following index shows the boundary for USGS 7.5-minute (1:24,000 scale) Topographic quadrangles for South Carolina. The map includes the name of the quadrangle with some basic reference data.
Map size: 22 x 17 inches (1,584 x 1,224 pt)
File size: 3.9 MB
Here’s a map of Mexico’s five states the U.S. deemed most dangerous, as well as the general warnings across the rest of the country. The State Department gave Mexico a level 2 travel warning overall, encouraging travelers to exercise increased caution in general.
Why fumble around with a printed map when you can tailor a digital one just for your trip? (Even in areas with spotty cell service, you can still make use of digital maps so long as you download offline maps ahead of time.) The My Maps web app from travel maps has been my most powerful travel planning tool for years.
Using the street map creator on a computer browser, you can look up points of interest like museums, restaurants and hotels and pin them on a map. To make the pins easy to read, you can color-code them or mark them with symbols — like an icon of a spoon and a knife for restaurants, or an icon of a bed for hotels. You can add notes to each point of interest, like a few words about the type of food served at a restaurant. You can also create “layers” to help organize your trip — for example, I create a new layer for each day of the trip. After making your custom map, you can call it up via the travel city maps app on a smartphone, in a menu labeled Your places.
The main benefit of this exercise is that the visual context of a map can help you plan each day around the proximity of points of interest. For example: When planning a trip to Taiwan this year, I created a layer for Day 1 and pinned a museum in northern Taipei along with some restaurants and a fish market in the area. After visiting the museum, I tapped on the nearest pin and loaded directions to walk to it. Using this routine, I visited nearly everything I wanted to see on the 10-day trip.
In the bad old days when I went on trips without custom maps, I jotted down a list of places I wanted to visit. Each day, I wasted far too much time, phone battery and cellular data figuring out which landmark to visit, how to get there and what to do afterward.
There’s another way custom maps save time. When your friends are visiting a country you have traveled to and bug you for your “bucket list” recommendations, you can simply send a street map invitation to the friend to view your map. That is far more useful than sharing a list of places to go.
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where I would like to go, and where exactly all these places are in a city that I have absolutely no idea about. Now, wouldn’t it be so much easier if everything was collated onto a specific map? Enter the holy grail of usefulness, travel Maps.
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Whether you’re cycling, hiking, backpacking or mountain biking, the trail ahead can prove a challenge. Komoot makes it easy to plan ahead with navigation technology and location data that enables you to generate sport-specific, topographic routings. The app then guides you on your journey with turn-by-turn voice navigation and detailed maps, even in offline mode.
Details like where to check in at the airport, estimated security wait times, and maps of amenities within the terminals (complete with tens of thousands of user reviews) are all GateGuru’s strengths. Researching your airports, even a little, within the app goes far towards building your confidence and wayfinding when short on time and nerves but surrounded by the maze of an airport terminal.
Find the best way to get anywhere, without unfolding a map or squinting at a train schedule. Rome2rio considers all modes of transportation when advising on the best routes from where you are, to where you want to go. A single search may include plane, train, bus, car, ferry, bike share, driving, and walking directions, all with listed fares and a detailed map that weaves together the segments of your journey.
street Maps allows users to instantly visualize customer locations and routes on a map, and plans out your schedule accordingly. As with Portatour, you can react to last-minute schedule changes and shorten your driving time by optimizing your route. city Maps also offers key features that Portatour doesn’t, like live traffic updates from Google Maps that show up on your route map and allow you to avoid jams. Interestingly, city plan also helps you find new customers in your territory by looking up similar retail outlets in the area. In order to fully take advantage of city Maps’s features, however, it’s best to connect the app with a CRM, which many wholesalers may not be using. Like Portatour, printable Maps allows for manual customer import using an Excel or CSV file, as well as those CRM integrations we mentioned. ERP integrations however, are only available through their expensive “Enterprise Elite” plan. Another downside is the fact that there’s no offline access. The app is available on the web, iOS and Android.
Details like where to check in at the airport, estimated security wait times, and maps of amenities within the terminals (complete with tens of thousands of user reviews) are all GateGuru’s strengths. Researching your airports, even a little, within the app goes far towards building your confidence and wayfinding when short on time and nerves but surrounded by the maze of an airport terminal.
Find the best way to get anywhere, without unfolding a map or squinting at a train schedule. Rome2rio considers all modes of transportation when advising on the best routes from where you are, to where you want to go. A single search may include plane, train, bus, car, ferry, bike share, driving, and walking directions, all with listed fares and a detailed map that weaves together the segments of your journey.
street Maps allows users to instantly visualize customer locations and routes on a map, and plans out your schedule accordingly. As with Portatour, you can react to last-minute schedule changes and shorten your driving time by optimizing your route. city Maps also offers key features that Portatour doesn’t, like live traffic updates from Google Maps that show up on your route map and allow you to avoid jams. Interestingly, city plan also helps you find new customers in your territory by looking up similar retail outlets in the area. In order to fully take advantage of city Maps’s features, however, it’s best to connect the app with a CRM, which many wholesalers may not be using. Like Portatour, printable Maps allows for manual customer import using an Excel or CSV file, as well as those CRM integrations we mentioned. ERP integrations however, are only available through their expensive “Enterprise Elite” plan. Another downside is the fact that there’s no offline access. The app is available on the web, iOS and Android.
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