If anyone is interested, I created paper maps that can be printed using USGS 30x60 minute series maps and the provided gpx file.
Unfortunately, I used 11x17 paper for five of the seven sheets, so it's about $10 to print in color at a FedEx Office / Kinko's, and possibly less at a local copy shop.
Some notes are on sheet 1. Print "actual size" from Acrobat.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByT47rdvlO-lbnNaalliR3J6Ym8The link is a folder with seven PDF files. (I thought it was a zip file with seven PDFs in it.)
They were giving my computer some trouble last night, especially if you zoom in. I've got 6GB of RAM, and that's not quite enough. But you should be able to put them on a stick and have a local copy shop print them.
Use at your own risk, etc., etc.
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It's so many sheets because I haven't been able to get rid of the map borders. So sheet 1 and 2 look the same, but the maps are rearranged so the Sacramento map is on top in Sheet 1, and the Placerville map is on top in Sheet 2. This same thing happens on sheets 5 and 6, which are the east side of Lake Tahoe. The difference is in the white border area. You should be able to find the track over a map in all track locations with the combination of all of these sheets.
Normally removing those borders is a fairly trivial clipping operation, but it just won't work for me. I'm gonna try a computer with a lot of RAM to see if that makes a difference.
The USGS maps are scanned at a resolution that's just a bit below ideal. These would look a lot better if the map resolution was a touch higher. They're not 24K Quads, so you don't have to change maps all the time.
The scale is 1:100,000, or 1cm = 1km. 1.6cm ~ 1 mile.
There is a fine-line UTM grid that makes 10cm squares on the maps. This is a 10km UTM grid, which is about 6.2 miles. If you measure that grid and it's 10cm, the map is printed at 1:100,000, if you want to verify that.
I used a NOAA declination app to look up the current declination in the middle of the gpx track area. It's ~13.50 degrees. If true north is straight-up 12 O'clock, magnetic north is just under half-way to 1 O'clock. (When the maps were made it was 17-18 degrees.)
This was all done in QGIS (a free, open-source GIS program), with map TIFFs from NOAA/USGS's TopoView website, and the route GPX. I will say the projections and printing operations (using Print Composer in QGIS) were a bit detailed. (I'm not a GIS professional.)
I made the track in Magenta, 1mm wide, and ~50% transparent so you can see map details under it. If anyone has colorblindness issues and can't see that, please let me know. I might not be able to fix it for this, but in the future, I can choose a better color.
Finally, a real map/GPS nerd comment: These older USGS maps use NAD27, not WGS84. I don't like changing my GPS to NAD27, so I just leave it on WGS84. The error is something like 13m in one direction, and 60-90m in another, which is less than 1mm on this map, so it's really negligible, and I can't think of any reason why you'd use this map in that way.
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