Guest philipwhittaker Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Anyone use topography maps or aerial maps to determine great locations to stratigically place stands/blinds etc? Where could I get cheap or home made one off the internet? Any ideas or comments would be great. Thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Google Earth is a great FREE place to start .. and MapCard.com is another .. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
13littleones Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Here is a couple of aerial sites.. http://maps.live.com/ http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YJsmitty Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 I just use Yahoo Maps, it's simple to use and you even have the road names on the maps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SRA Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Google Earth (free version) and Microsoft TerraServer....u can scout saddles, pinch points, hilltop field funnels etc .....without ever leaving the house. I am always sitting at work:D fiddling with it. I love to find out of the way public land and try new set-ups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUDRUNNER Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Mapquest actually has great aerial photos,but no topo maps.I use them to locate spots on the property that look good,but I still go in and scout,and locate my stand from what I find on foot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfletch7441 Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 This is a pretty good resource too: http://maps.live.com/ If it's available in your area, check out the "Bird's Eye View". Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjam5 Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 I got a topo map of our land back in 2000. It has helped tremendously in helping find those deer funnels. We set up stands by those funnels and while many deer get passed on, it is still a hot spot when they get moving. I used www.mytopo.com The map is custom printed for you on that weather proof durable paper. I think I paid like $14.95. They start at $9.99. Its a good deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 This is a pretty good resource too: http://maps.live.com/ If it's available in your area, check out the "Bird's Eye View". Ben Too bad the birds eye view did not work here. Zoomed in from that link here and it goes to the same old terra server map that we have viewed for some time from 1997. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfletch7441 Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Too bad the birds eye view did not work here. Zoomed in from that link here and it goes to the same old terra server map that we have viewed for some time from 1997. Too bad man, they're pretty sweet. They have them at my house, and their photos are so good I could go back and tell you the day they flew over my house. I was building a back porch last winter and it took me 3 days. Based on the lumber piled on the trailer, they had to have flown it on the Saturday. The technology out there is both amazing and worrysome. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vagobbln Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Here's something else you can try. Do a property or tax map search for the county in which you hunt. In some cases there is a link on the county's homepage. The two counties I hunt here in Virginia both work off of geographic information systems. They can be accessed by anyone and allow me to search for a particular property by name, address, or other search criteria. Once I identify the property I'm interested in, it will list information such as the landowner, contact information, acreage, etc. After you zoom in close enough, the program allows you to overlay the property maps with aerial photos. This is a really good tool for finding out who owns a particular piece of property you've been drooling over for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Do a property or tax map search for the county in which you hunt. I wish our state would get up to speed there, at this point the property maps are still not online here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tecumseh Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Google earth,my topo.com and the U.S. Geological surveys site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Finn Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 This is a pretty good resource too: http://maps.live.com/ If it's available in your area, check out the "Bird's Eye View". Ben Man, that's really good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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