{"id":98,"date":"2009-04-16T09:18:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T14:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/2009\/04\/16\/new-red-river-gorge-map\/"},"modified":"2009-04-16T10:16:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T15:16:41","slug":"new-red-river-gorge-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/2009\/04\/16\/new-red-river-gorge-map\/","title":{"rendered":"New Red River Gorge Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left\" class=\"noaaWeatherIcon\" alt=\"5th Edition Red River Gorge\" title=\"5th Edition Red River Gorge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/store\/images\/T\/th_Gorge.jpg\" \/><strong>5th Edition Red River Gorge Backpacking Map<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost ready for release!<br \/>\nA complete remake of our popular backpacking guide with the green maps. This new set keeps all of the great features of the old maps, but in full-color and updated trails and data.<\/p>\n<p>Visit our Gorge webpage to learn more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outrageGIS.com\/gorge\">http:\/\/www.outrageGIS.com\/gorge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In January we looked at the previous editions, all 2-color with an travel elevation profile booklet, and thought how we could improve it. We had used aerial photography to show landcover type, which did a good job indicating density of canopy, open areas, sunlight, and offered a rustic green background for our GPS trails.<\/p>\n<p>However, most people are confused when they look at aerial photographs&#8230;they think hills are valleys and vice versa. This terrain inversion is a significant cartographic problem, but we were confident then when most people *used them in the field* they made sense.<\/p>\n<p>While unique advantages exist using photographs, for the new edition we used a custom created, full-color hillshade that shows forest canopy cover type and open areas. We artificially lit the landscape from the west and eliminated terrain inversion. We added a distinct stream symbol to clearly mark drainage. With 50-foot contours and spot elevations, this new edition offers a handsome way to stay located.<a title=\"View 3D map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.outrageGIS.com\/gorge\/3d\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"noaaWeatherIconRight\" style=\"float: right\" alt=\"Gray's Arch rockshelter\" title=\"Gray's Arch rockshelter\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.outragegis.com\/d\/21830-2\/Sample-RRG-BirdsEyeView.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since most GPS applications are now by default in the latitude\/longitude (decimal degrees) coordinate system, we added this graticule to the map. A UTM grid is also labeled. With scales on the corners of maps that can be seen while folded, a hiker can quickly determine distance and locate themselves with a GPS in either dd.dddd or UTM coordinate systems.<\/p>\n<p>We still have all of the trail profiles, side trails, backcountry campsites that were in the previous edition. The new edition actually covers more area and trails.<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"SimpleButton\">\n<tr>\n<td><a class=\"Button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/store\/cart.php?mode=add&#038;productid=5&#038;amount=1\">Red River Gorge Backpacking Map: $14<br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a class=\"Button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/store\/cart.php?mode=add&#038;productid=5&#038;amount=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"GoImage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/store\/skin1\/images\/go.gif\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5th Edition Red River Gorge Backpacking Map It&#8217;s almost ready for release! A complete remake of our popular backpacking guide with the green maps. This new set keeps all of the great features of the old maps, but in full-color and updated trails and data. Visit our Gorge webpage to learn more: http:\/\/www.outrageGIS.com\/gorge In January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-red-river-gorge","category-sheltowee-trace","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}