Download Options
Whoa! Take a second to consider what you want to download.
There are new all-in-one voice-searchable high-resolution PDFs that are downloadable as of 10-1-24.
All of the maps can be loaded onto a phone or a computer, into a single folder, and be viewed just like photos are normally viewed.
Scroll down the page, past the download options, to see a brief tutorial of the download process.
Download the Medium size PDF. This is a new single file, voice-searchable, high-resolution, all-in-one PDF that is downloadable as of 10-1-24. This contains the 10-1-24 full set, 1532 pages total. On a smartphone the voice search works well. All of the small features on the very busy maps like the Wayne topos can be seen. There is also a Small and Large PDF available, at 403 Mb and 1972 Mb respectively, see below. The searchable terms are mostly the logical titles that you see at the bottom of the pictures. This includes the area name, usually the full title, including for example, “Two mile”, “Four mile”, “Index”, “Road maps”, and “Ohio sunrise”. The Medium size here is 901 Mb. There are some pointers on using the PDFs in the Technical notes webpage. The filename is “OHM 1024 pdf Medium 901 Mb searchable”.
Click here to download the Medium 1024 PDF, one file.
Download the “100% with titles” full set A. This is the premium product that includes the embedded title, and has full size 100% images. This is the full set of maps as of 10-1-24. The titles are uniform logical titles embedded at the bottom edge of the full size picture, and always have the area name first. This is 1532 picture files put into one Zip file, and is 3.5 Gigabytes in size. The maximum base image size is 2500 x 3300 pixels. They are portrait or landscape; they do not have gray borders in them like the main gallery pictures (that are made to be uniform in size). These are made to be kept in a single folder on a phone or PC, and be viewed with the native picture viewer. Set A has somewhat smaller embedded titles than the main gallery pictures have. This set does have descending “date picture taken” dates for all the files, so that that they will order correctly on most smartphones. Google Drive is the download provider. See the tutorial below to get a sense of how the download works. There is no preview available on the preview screen. After clicking on the blue “Download” button, the next screen is a white screen and says, “..it is too large for Google to scan for viruses”. You can proceed with the download anyway, which takes about 10 minutes. The pictures are in a Zip file, and they need to be extracted. This extraction process can take a few steps to get the files where you want them.
Click here to download the “100% with titles” map set, full set A.
Download the Small size PDF. This is a new single file, voice-searchable, medium-resolution, all-in-one PDF that is downloadable as of 10-1-24. This contains the 10-1-24 full set, 1532 pages total. On a smartphone the voice search works well. All of the small features on the very busy maps like the Wayne topos can be seen, but in a lower-resolution way. The searchable terms are mostly the logical titles that you see at the bottom of the pictures. This includes the area name, usually the full title, including for example, “Two mile”, “Four mile”, “Index”, “Road maps”, and “Ohio sunrise”. The Small size here is 403 Mb. There are some pointers on using the PDFs in the Technical notes webpage. The filename is “OHM 1024 pdf Small 403 Mb searchable”.
Click here to download the Small 1024 PDF, one file.
Download the Large size PDF. This is a new single file, voice-searchable, high-resolution, all-in-one PDF that is downloadable as of 10-1-24. This contains the 10-1-24 full set, 1532 pages total. On a smartphone the voice search works well. All of the small features on the very busy maps like the Wayne topos can be seen very clearly. The searchable terms are mostly the logical titles that you see at the bottom of the pictures. This includes the area name, usually the full title, including for example, “Two mile”, “Four mile”, “Index”, “Road maps”, and “Ohio sunrise”. The Large size here is 1972 Mb (1.92 Gb). There are some pointers on using the PDFs in the Technical notes webpage. The filename is “OHM 1024 pdf Large 1972 Mb searchable”.
Click here to download the Large 1024 PDF, one file.
Download a test ZIP file of two pictures, set B. You can download a test zip file here, to see what you have to do to complete the whole process, and see what screens come up, without downloading the really big zip files. The downloads are from the Google Drive service. After the window comes up that shows the files within the zip file, press the download button at the top right. It looks like a downward pointing arrow, pointing down to a tray. Open the download in your browser and copy the files to the desired location for permanent storage. The download usually goes first to a temporary “Downloads” folder. There is a short summary of the process below, on this page.
Click here to download a test zip file of 2 pictures, set B.
Download the “100% for gallery” full set C. This is the complete set of images displayed on the webpages, at the new 100% size, as of 10-1-24. All the images are 3300 x 3459 pixels, all the same size, and the portrait and landscape pictures fit into this, along with the title at the bottom. The base image size is full size, or a maximum of 2500 x 3300. This is what is seen on the Main Gallery pages with the “full-size picture viewer”. When you click on the image to select it, and then double-click on it again to enlarge it, you see this 2500 x 3300 base image size. This is 1532 picture files put into one Zip file, and is 3.5 Gigabytes in size. These have larger titles than set A, a larger font size, and have the gray “background” in them. For personal use, set A is better. Set C is made specifically for the galleries.
Click here to download the “100% for gallery” map set, full set C.
Download the “100% without titles” full set D. This set does not have the title text box at the bottom edge. Set D is updated as of 10-1-24. These pages are more exactly paper-sized for printing. When printed, the picture can be a little larger without the title. They have a “Date Picture Taken” date that is in a descending order so that the pictures will order correctly on a smartphone. It is common for smartphones to insist on ordering them in that way. The base image here is the original size image, before a title is added, like in set A above. Some original images are small. You can see the original size here. To see what the image is of, you need to look at it more closely since there is no bottom title. There is often a header or title on the page. This set works fine if you are already familiar with the pictures to some degree. This set is slightly smaller in memory size than set A. Set D here is 3.4 Gigabytes. If you want to print a set of pages for an area onto 8-1/2″ x 11″ paper, and you don’t want the additional title at the bottom edge, this set might be better than set A.
Click here to download the “100% without titles” map set, full set D.
Download a partial set, areas A – B only. This is A. W. Marion State Park to Burr Oak State Park only, like gallery page 1. This is updated as of 10-1-24. This is a reduced size download, a partial set of the “100% set with titles”. This is one zip file, 498 Megabytes, with 210 pictures.
Click here to download a partial set, areas A – B only, set G.
Download a partial set, areas C – G only. THIS ONE IS NOT AVAILABLE AS OF 9-14-24. This is Caesar Creek Lake State Park to Guilford Lake State Park only. This is updated as of 4-14-24. This is a reduced size download, a partial set of the “100% set with titles”. This is one zip file, 401 Megabytes, with 223 pictures.
Click here to download a partial set, areas C – G only, set H.
THIS ONE IS NOT AVAILABLE AS OF 9-14-24.
Download a partial set, areas H – O only. THIS ONE IS NOT AVAILABLE AS OF 10-7-24. This is Hambden Orchard to Oxbow Lake only. This is updated as of 4-14-24. This is a reduced size download, a partial set of the “100% set with titles”. This is one zip file, 624 Megabytes, with 313 pictures.
Click here to download a partial set, areas H – O only, set J.
THIS ONE IS NOT AVAILABLE AS OF 10-7-24.
Download a partial set, areas P – Waterloo only. THIS ONE IS NOT AVAILABLE AS OF 9-14-24. This is Paint Creek to Waterloo only. This is updated as of 4-14-24. This is a reduced size download, a partial set of the “100% set with titles”. This is one zip file, 593 Megabytes, with 293 pictures.
Click here to download a partial set, areas P – Waterloo only, set K.
THIS ONE IS NOT AVAILABLE AS OF 9-14-24.
Download a partial set, of the Wayne National Forest areas only. This is all three areas of the Wayne National Forest, all of it. This is updated as of 10-1-24. This is a reduced size download, a partial set of the “100% set with titles”. This is one zip file, 854 Megabytes, with 224 pictures.
Click here to download a partial set, the Wayne N.F. only, set L.
Download a partial set, areas Wellington – Z. THIS ONE IS NOT AVAILABLE AS OF 9-14-24. This is Wellington to Zepernick only, and the INDEX and “not shown” list at the end. This is updated as of 4-14-24. This is a reduced size download, a partial set of the “100% set with titles”. This is one zip file, 466 Megabytes, with 181 pictures.
Click here to download a partial set, areas Wellington – Z only, set M.
THIS ONE IS NOT AVAILABLE AS OF 9-14-24.
Details on the Download process
After you hit the Download button for one of the downloads listed above, you go to a Google Drive download screen. On the test download, it will show the two files, it will list the two files inside the Zip folder. On the larger downloads, it does not do this, and instead displays a message that a preview could not be generated. It says, “Couldn’t preview file. There was a problem with the preview”. Right below this there is a blue download button with a download icon on it, in the center of the screen. Press the button.
The message in the center may not appear. If the screen looks like the picture below, then there is a download icon at the top right . See picture below; the red arrow points to the download icon. Press it.
Press one of the download buttons. This takes you to a mostly white screen with a small message at the top center that says, “Google drive can’t scan this file for viruses”. There is a “Download anyway” button right there. Make a leap of faith and press it to start the download.
The download starts and can be seen on the bar at the bottom of the screen at the lower left, like in Google Chrome. The large files download as Zip files, and the pictures need to be extracted. This is a separate process and is different and looks different on various devices and computers. Try to move the pictures from the Zip file to your target folder where you can view them. One way of doing this is to click on the download button at the bottom left when it is complete, and then click on “show in folder”. This brings up a window where you see a zip folder. Double-click on the folder. You then see inside the zip folder and see all of the picture files. “Extract all” comes up as an option in the toolbar at the top. Press “Extract all” and this brings up a window to select a destination folder. Select a folder that you have already put on the desktop for this purpose, or one on a USB drive, and extract the files to that folder. This extraction process can vary, and is somewhat different on a smartphone. Good Luck.