With all the recent talks around the Chit-Chat Forum and in the past about aerial and topo maps of the United States I decided I would do a little search for a program that could do better than the websites.
The best thing I found is called USAPhotoMaps, it's available on
www.download.com and it's powered by the Microsoft Terraserver website.
Quote:
Publisher's Description
USAPhotoMaps enables you to automatically download USGS 1-meter and 8-meter aerial photos, and 4-meter topo maps from Microsoft's Terraserver Web site, and creates a contiguous map from them. You can scroll it, view it at 4 levels of magnification, mark way points, center the map on any way point or latitude/longitude, see the distance and direction to a way point, and see the current latitude/longitude. You can make as many maps as you want. If you have a GPS, you can see your current location (updated every second), and transfer way points, tracks and routes to/from it. New version has been changed to an installable version of USAPhotoMaps.
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My thoughts:
This program is great! You can create
LARGE aerial jpeg images, add text, and create overall images as large as an entire state (or bigger). It also can sync with some GPS units, and way points and routes can be added.
See the developers website
http://www.jdmcox.com/ for more plug-ins, updates, and info.
To see an example click the link below.
Warning I think it's like 2mb.
Purdue University Example This was all made from one image in the program. I did not crop and paste a bunch of smaller images in paint to make it.
For example, you can make a car as safe as possible. It may get the highest safety ratings in it's class, but if you drive it off of a cliff there really isn't much you can do about that. - jmanela [more] 
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