10-11-2008, 04:57 PM
In this day and age where local secrets may be more carefully guarded as populations encroach into the last of the lower 48's, and with the greatest respect of the author, It becomes increasing awkward to ask such precious direction online as the information highway develops cracks, one wouldn't want to be responsible in any way for aiding any increased traffic into our fast waning escape or local privacy.
So It clicked upstairs to simply go look for them as I have all the tools here necessary to do so. I simply opened Google Earth, which for those who don't know, is a free interface program from Google, really cool stuff, just gotta go see for yourselves, And pan in slowly from space towards my home and simply look for lakes as I go.
Google Earth is a series of high quality satellite images all seamed together and the interface program has incredibly neat features such as ability to rotate the compass, waypoint any location, even uses CGI "Computer Generated Imaging" to enable dropping your view angle drown to an almost useless horizontal as it runs that pan in 3-D !! very well done, realistic.
I have heard there were some lakes in behind me and have never actually seen them and was able to use the above mentioned features of Google Earth to pleasantly find out there is a fair sized lake that meets the criteria perfectly for ice fishing next safe ice, and is within a mile and a half of my home down logging roads. I rotated the compass to be looking from North to South and dropped down to see it is well-protected from the low winter sun, and as I move the cursor over it in the image, gives me the exact longitude and latitude I will plug into my hand held GPS to find easily as I have been that way and are many forks., elevation shows at 2424, beauty !!
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Note: I notice that the captured image shows position, this should hopefully not fly in the face of my introductory ideal, the entire area shown is privately held for many miles and is predominantly closed to any public access, the intent of this post is to share a neat method to scope lakes on Google Earth that may be near you.
Thanks, BFS [fishin]
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So It clicked upstairs to simply go look for them as I have all the tools here necessary to do so. I simply opened Google Earth, which for those who don't know, is a free interface program from Google, really cool stuff, just gotta go see for yourselves, And pan in slowly from space towards my home and simply look for lakes as I go.
Google Earth is a series of high quality satellite images all seamed together and the interface program has incredibly neat features such as ability to rotate the compass, waypoint any location, even uses CGI "Computer Generated Imaging" to enable dropping your view angle drown to an almost useless horizontal as it runs that pan in 3-D !! very well done, realistic.
I have heard there were some lakes in behind me and have never actually seen them and was able to use the above mentioned features of Google Earth to pleasantly find out there is a fair sized lake that meets the criteria perfectly for ice fishing next safe ice, and is within a mile and a half of my home down logging roads. I rotated the compass to be looking from North to South and dropped down to see it is well-protected from the low winter sun, and as I move the cursor over it in the image, gives me the exact longitude and latitude I will plug into my hand held GPS to find easily as I have been that way and are many forks., elevation shows at 2424, beauty !!
[inline Waterscoping1.jpg]
Note: I notice that the captured image shows position, this should hopefully not fly in the face of my introductory ideal, the entire area shown is privately held for many miles and is predominantly closed to any public access, the intent of this post is to share a neat method to scope lakes on Google Earth that may be near you.
Thanks, BFS [fishin]
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