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.