Map Frustration

[anne_77]

Ok - I know this sounds crazy. I mean, who lives in an area that doesn't have maps? Surely EMS workers, construction workers, etc must need maps. And everyone I ask seems to think it's perfectly normal - none of them has ever seen a map of this area.

I'm in grad school - a branch of a major university - and they don't even have maps to give to new students. There are some maps my town hands out, but they're just of downtown (which takes about 2 minutes to cross on bike). I checked out my yellow pages - insanely they have a map of about 20 counties! Basically everything between philadelphia and pittsburgh. I'm too far outside Harrisburg for anything to show up on Metropolitan Harrisburg maps. I checked out the United States Geological Survey site and their "maps on demand" is saying there are no maps currently available for Pennsylvania. I checked out the pedometer website and it's saying "there are no maps available for this region" when I choose Pennsylvania. Do you think this is a conspiracy on the part of the state of Pennsylvania? Are they hording map data?

Yesterday, when I got lost, I called one of my friends. I knew I was on the right road but couldn't figure out if I was going in the right direction. She had to look at a map of the entire state and couldn't find any of the towns I had passed through on it!

I will continue to search but really this does not make sense. I'll keep you posted. I know I can order a custom map from RandalMcNally for $99 but that's alot of money! And who knows - maybe they'll refuse to map my county too!

I'm starting to wonder if there's some high-security site around here.