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Getting accurate maps of High Mountain, WV

Yeah, there's some great caving around Seneca Rocks. I haven't been in many years, but there are plenty out here. Wild and wonderful. I go skiing in Summit Country regularly and am familiar with Keystone. I'm sure you have the same problem with old mine roads and other mountain grades that I have here with logging roads and other forest access roads.

Sometimes I wonder how the initial TIGER data set got put together. I think someone sat down in a bar or church picnic with locals and just drew lines on a road map. Something like:
Local - "Yeah, my dad took me up there hunting a few years back. We drove up in our pickup."
(draws line on map)
Mapper - "OK, then I'll make that a road. It must connect to this one since it's nearby on my piece of paper."
(draws connection to another non-existent road)

John