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beezer Member
Joined: Aug 22, 2005 Posts: 75
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:03 am Post subject: aerial pic's |
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I just found google satelite mapping. Now I can see an overall airial view of where you all hunt so when a town or village is mentioned there is a reference point to work out from. My own area looks quite different from space.
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Dimitri Super Member
Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5947
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:57 am Post subject: Re: aerial pic's |
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Yup I've seen mine. Looks really different.
For the most part Google Earth is pretty good but if you want "up close" pictures your out of luck. The area my mom lives in for example cant be zoomed in just to see your farm but it does allow for you to see yours and your naibours to make a rough guess at the whole area's deer movements.
Dimitri
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DallanC Site Admin
Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:00 am Post subject: Re: aerial pic's |
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Depends on where you are, and if that local requires higher rez photos. My area is mapped in high detail. I can see small bushes around my yard, truck in the driveway etc etc. Pretty cool stuff. Luckily the major area I hunt is mapped down to the same detail. Going into 3d mode makes it amazing combined with the texture and topo information.
-DallanC
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beezer Member
Joined: Aug 22, 2005 Posts: 75
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:30 pm Post subject: Re: aerial pic's |
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I can see field boundaries and woodland on mine but not farm buildings.but it's good to see where the deer go when they leave mine.
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popgun Member
Joined: Jan 26, 2005 Posts: 735 Location: Mitchell, GA, U.S.A. (2007 pop. 191)
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject: Re: aerial pic's |
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Google Earth is a Windows XP only program for up to date computers. My old machine will not run XP so for everyday use I use USAPhotoMap and TerraClient. Both are free programs that let you download the satelite map photo and the topo version that will overlay the photo. Very handy little programs.
USA Photo Map download page
TerraClient download page
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Bushmaster Super Member
Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Posts: 11395 Location: Ava, Missouri
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: Re: aerial pic's |
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I keep "Google Earth" on my desk top at all times...Simple down load...
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yard_dogsmj Rookie Member
Joined: Nov 06, 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Rock Isand, IL
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject: Re: aerial pic's |
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Google Earth will run with Windows 2000, I got four Windows 2000, computers
sitting here at home
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shrpshtrjoe Super Red Neck Member
Joined: Jan 26, 2005 Posts: 2965 Location: Maryland
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:14 pm Post subject: Re: aerial pic's |
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Welcome to the HuntingNut yard_dogsmj. Sit and stay awhile
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DallanC Site Admin
Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:32 pm Post subject: Re: aerial pic's |
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If HD space isnt an issue, go into the GoogleEarth settings and increase your image cache to something alot bigger... it will keep more images around to make future browsing faster.
PS: Heres the mountain I live next to... you can see amazing detail in the entire region. 40 29 22.28 N 111 41 47.00 W
-DallanC
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popgun Member
Joined: Jan 26, 2005 Posts: 735 Location: Mitchell, GA, U.S.A. (2007 pop. 191)
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject: Re: aerial pic's |
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The problem with it on my machine is that I'm stretching the limitations of my system now. It's an old Win98 machine running 2000. I would love to run Google earth but it just won't make it on this machine.
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DallanC Site Admin
Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject: Re: aerial pic's |
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popgun wrote: |
The problem with it on my machine is that I'm stretching the limitations of my system now. It's an old Win98 machine running 2000. I would love to run Google earth but it just won't make it on this machine. |
Upgrading is cheaper than you might believe. I just went to pricewatch.com and looked up CPU / MB combos... look at this deal:
$110 - athlon xp 2600 333 cpu, fan
You need ram on top of that, at least 512MB of PC3200 ($40) but it would last you for a good many years. Or watch for a used scratch and dent Dell that would have a warrenty.
-DallanC
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popgun Member
Joined: Jan 26, 2005 Posts: 735 Location: Mitchell, GA, U.S.A. (2007 pop. 191)
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject: Re: aerial pic's |
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What's involved with a cpu switchout? I feel barely confident to add hard drives and CD/DVD drives.
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Dimitri Super Member
Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5947
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: aerial pic's |
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Popgun,
If I understoud that that is a motherboard/CPU combo if the fan and CPU have been preinstalled like many are all you got to do is disconnect all the cables.
Unscrew the old MOBO (Motherboard) from the computer case and then screw in the new one and reconnect everything.
Then you got to put in all your old PCI cards and your graphics card into the new mobo.
And your pretty much done. Its not too hard to do and wont take too much time.
Word of warning touch a metal pipe or something thats grounded before doing all this and during if your worried about static killing your computer.
Dimitri
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BillP Rookie Member
Joined: Mar 03, 2005 Posts: 9 Location: West/Ctrl MN
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:16 pm Post subject: Re: aerial pic's |
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Google Earth is good but in most of the places I want to hunt high resolution image is not available. Check individule county web sites. Many of them have aerial photo programs using something called a GIS sistem. Often you have to look around within the county official web site. I have found them listed as GIS maps, county maps, tax maps and other places. Once you find them, they all work sort of the same way Google Earth does but two things make them really neat. You can identify the owner of the property and the boundrys. It also has a neet way to measure just by clicking on two points.
Here in MN well over half the counties have this and the quality and how old the photos are varies but in most cases it's good. MN also has a state version of the same thing but of course it lacks the ability to identify property boundrys and ownership.
Bill
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Blaine Member
Joined: Feb 24, 2005 Posts: 260 Location: Maine
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:45 pm Post subject: Re: aerial pic's |
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Another site to look at is terraserver.com
Blaine
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