Playing w Google Earth

[Ridgewalker]

Let's see if this works...a Google Earth over head view of my 50. Taken in the spring of 03 before I owned the place.
It's all oak with some pine, step ridges and draws. The spot near the highway, left side is now a 2.5 acre food plot, I am still working on the other side.

The land behind me on the right is national forest, 350 acres +-.

 

[SnowRidge]

Playing with Google Earth is fun. Here you go, your 50 in topo form from Google Earth.

 

[McCaskey]

In addition to Google Earth, try Historic Aerials: http://www.historicaerials.com/
You can see land pictures back to 1958.

 

[MossRoad]

Let's see if this works...a Google Earth over head view of my 50. Taken in the spring of 03 before I owned the place.
It's all oak with some pine, step ridges and draws. The spot near the highway, left side is now a 2.5 acre food plot, I am still working on the other side.

The land behind me on the right is national forest, 350 acres +-.

O.K. How did you pinpoint where he google earthed that photo? Is it in the file name somewhere or did you perhaps use his location info in his profile?

 

[SnowRidge]

Are you referring to Moi, Sir?

I can find anyone, given a minor clue or two. I never looked at the pic's file name. Thanks for reminding me. I should have done that. Everything needed to locate that property is in the first post of this thread. However, a little research on TBN makes it somewhat easier.

 

[Ridgewalker]

Playing with Google Earth is fun. Here you go, your 50 in topo form from Google Earth.

I am impressed, the St. Francois Mts. is a pretty small area. What else did you use to pinpoint me? The date? You're a great sleuth!

I have a hard copy of that topo, I love maps.

Edit, The addy is there, that's a great clue!

 

[SnowRidge]

From your post, you are obviously in or next to a national forest in or near the St. Francois Mts of Missouri. Google Earth has a layer that shows national forest boundaries. You mentioned your county in another post. There is a layer for counties, too. The placemark has a number, which turned out to be a house number.

Also factoring in were the colors and level of detail in the satellite view you posted. Google Earth views are segmented by the available satellite data. The coloration and resolution varies from view to view. A birds eye view of Missouri reveals only a handful or areas matching your Google Earth image.

All of that narrowed it to a small area. Plugging the placemark number into Google Earth's search box, along with some other data, popped you right up.

It's getting harder and harder to hide these days.

 

[Ridgewalker]

I enable the elevation feature and found out that I have a 146' elevation change from the highest spot to the lowest spot.

 

[MossRoad]

From your post, you are obviously in or next to a national forest in or near the St. Francois Mts of Missouri. Google Earth has a layer that shows national forest boundaries. You mentioned your county in another post. There is a layer for counties, too. The placemark has a number, which turned out to be a house number.

Also factoring in were the colors and level of detail in the satellite view you posted. Google Earth views are segmented by the available satellite data. The coloration and resolution varies from view to view. A birds eye view of Missouri reveals only a handful or areas matching your Google Earth image.

All of that narrowed it to a small area. Plugging the placemark number into Google Earth's search box, along with some other data, popped you right up.

It's getting harder and harder to hide these days.

Ahh, you did it the old fashioned way... hard work.

I noticed a 90 degree bend in the HWY and the brown from the photo but still couldn't find it . What threw me was the mention of the forest. We don't got them around here. We got parks. You can be next to a park, but not in one. You can be in a forest. Once you pointed that out it was easy.

 

[MossRoad]

I enable the elevation feature and found out that I have a 146' elevation change from the highest spot to the lowest spot.

Nice looking area. I have never been west or south of St. Louis. Would like to get through MO, AR and TX some time.

 

[Ridgewalker]

Nice looking area. I have never been west or south of St. Louis. Would like to get through MO, AR and TX some time.

If you're ever passing thru let me know and I will give you a tour. My neck of the woods is pretty unique. The St. Francois Mts. are older than the Ozarks, Rockies, Smokies,etc, supposedly I have 500 million year old rocks. This area was mined since the 1700's, the first lead mine in the nation was Mine La Motte. We had Silver, Gold, Copper, Cobalt, Lead, etc all mined here. My uncles and Grandpa were all miners...tough duty!

I highly recommend visiting Silver Mines Conservation Area (CA) ditto for Amidon CA and Mill Stream Gardens. Those are all great places to take the kids.
Google them and look at the pix. We aren't far from Elephant Rock and Johnson's shut ins; Taum Sauk, etc.

The bad news, I hope I don't upset anyone here, I am too easy to track down!

 

[MossRoad]

The bad news, I hope I don't upset anyone here, I am too easy to track down!

HA!

 

[JB4310]

Birds eye view is cool, especially where the resolution is high, I'm interested in mapping of all sorts. We have fly over imagery here from 1935.
They also have street view now in many areas, a view at street level 360 degrees. We had people over at Thanksgiving and I showed one girl the street view of her house and she was in the driveway bringing in groceries, she couldn't believe it! Also the community thing where anyone can put in a push pin and post a picture and info.

Earth cams are cool to, live views from around the world.

JB.

 

[jinjimbob]

I think the birdeye view on live.com is also very good. They cover areas that google hasn't got yet.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

Any idea how often the aerial satellite views are updated? Our county GIS is trying for new satellite views every 5 years. The Google views are a few years old and need to be updated.

 

[jinjimbob]

It depends on your area to how often your city/county updates their views.

I know cities near me update theirs yearly, they use them to create automatic building permit fines for items like decks.

Google maps is wrong for streets around me, they stepped back in time the other year for me, weird.