Post by: ydeardorff on October 02, 2011, 06:15:28 AM
It has a lot of cool features, like sunlight shadowing in 3D that allows me to establish south facing slopes, as well as where the sun will be shining first at sunrise, and last at night.
It also allows me to place pins on the map marking points where I saw scat, tracks, or even an animal itself. It can be used to effectively plan out a strategy for a hunt as well.
Does anyone here use any kind of mapping tool like this?
Another thing, it might be a cool trick for this site to have a Bear harvested cork board, overlay of the state. It could show the members picture of their prize in a thumbnail or something. Just an idea. :tup:
Post by: ICEMAN on October 02, 2011, 06:22:41 AM
Let me rephrase that; I would not want to post on the internet exactly where I hunt and harvested my bear... I have shared hunt info with folks, but usually behind the scenes or in a private email......
Post by: ydeardorff on October 02, 2011, 06:52:21 AM
Yet it does offer a great computer based method of tracking your outings, and establishing an animals range, and usual haunts.
Post by: rebal69972 on October 02, 2011, 06:55:25 AM
i use google earth not only to help plan hunts but my wife and i put pins on the map where we r planing on hunting each day. if we stick to our plan it gives search and rescue a place to start if something where to happen
Post by: ydeardorff on October 02, 2011, 07:02:06 AM
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Post by: JimmyHoffa on October 02, 2011, 09:52:33 AM
Question here. Are you guys using the free google earth and if so when I use it and zoom in close to the ground it always gets out of focus to where I cant see the details I would like to see. Do I need to do something different to get more detail?Thanks nwhunterI use the free version. I think the reason it is blurry is the image date. For the areas I like to look at on the OP, the areas are mostly blurry (I can still see what I need to see) and have an image date of march 2006. There are other areas (near cities) where it is clearer, but the image date switches to July 2009 and even 2010.
Post by: Alan K on October 02, 2011, 10:06:37 AM
I also utilize Google Earth regularly, and as far as I know, the files you post in 'My Places' are stored solely on your own hard drive, and can not be accessed by other users of Google earth. If I am wrong, somebody please provide a link that says otherwise because I would like to know. (not that I have a bunch of confidential stuff on there) :chuckle:
That's correct, everyone would have to submit their kml/kmz files to some sort of online file sharing site and everyone would have to download each file to their own computer to see them. (As far as I know!)
As far as blurry images, they'll refine themselves to your zoom as best they can, but if you end up zooming in and the image wasn't taken in that high a resolution you'll experience the blurriness. Like JimmyHoffa said, the newer the imagery, generally the higher resolution the photos were taken, which in turn means clearer images.
Post by: Arteman on October 02, 2011, 11:23:10 PM
I use it to locate south facing slopes and ridges for shed hunting....I don't know about Google Earth, but this year I used my gps to literally walk back and forth all the way down large hillsides to pick them clean of sheds. Worked like a charm, just droped down about 15 ft every time, kept it in my hand the whole time to make sure I was keeping a consistent distance from my last mark. I found some hard to find sheds using this method.
Post by: grizzlyadams on October 03, 2011, 08:49:10 AM
I even have software on my PC's that will not allow any Internet Browser to send or store search criteria linked to me or my IP address. I'm a complete ghost on the net.when I want to be. Privacy is paramount......get your data from somewhere else. If people only knew how much of their online data use was being stored on commercial servers and used for purposes they would not agree with, it would make them sick.