Our friend Jim Brewer has produced the best interactive map available for planning your trip to the Swell and mapping locations that you want to be sure are protected.
This latest interactive map provides valuable insight into the SRS TMP alternatives. It includes a couple of the more popular maps as optional basemaps (Dick Brass Trails, Emery County OHV) as well as PLSS, surface management, BLM wilderness, and a TMA boundary Also, you can choose from several different typical basemaps on the upper right for better route connection clarity.
The base Route Inventory is in red, so when you turn on each of the alternatives (in green) the red that remains are the closed routes. Zooming in enables route labels and popups for each route will show details. I had to fix labeling on a couple of routes in the Dick Brass system since they had them mixed up a little.
We also have added airstrips and fixed the Search feature so you can locate the route on the map.
My personal recommendations to start off with your map are the following:
- Turn On These Layers- BLM Wilderness Layer (show as hashed green lines), TMA Boundary, Surface Management Layer (Shows state lands in blue), Route Inventory (shows all routes inventoried, will display in Red at first)
- Good Map Layers on Left- Terrain with Labels and Imagery Hybrid for aerial views
We will post a video here soon to show you how to navigate the map.
If you’d like to contact Jim Brewer about a GIS project, his website is Western Expanse Inventory & Cartography
