topo maps, aerial photos?

[Mike Bolin]

I was wondering if any of you have any experience with any of the servers that furnish topo maps and/or aerial photos? I am wanting some aerial photos a local area and I need some topos for a couple of places out of state. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Mike

[NoCams]

MB,
if you want a great topo map go to mytopo.com. They also do aerials too. As far as scouting va aerial/ computer I use terraserver.com some and now thanks to another tradganger, jdmcox.com. expertgps.com is another good site I think ? Hope this helps.

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[BenBow]

Do a google search USAPhotoMaps it's a great program that downloads both topo and sat maps that you can switch between, zoom in and out, and with the right gps components upload/download waypoints.

[waiting4fall]

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[zilla]

Google Earth has great aerials.

For the most part I use a free ware called jdmcox.com  USA photo map.. It's free and you can toggle between the topo map amd the aerial photo. The software allows you to access and use all the USGS maps online..

[Mike Bolin]

Thank for the feedback guys! I've been hitting the sites you all have suggested and these are definitely what I was looking for! Mike

[Rico]

I'm a big fan of jdmcox.com excellant to use with gps

[Liquid Amber]

Being a professional forester, I use aerials routinely.  We've found MapCard to be a inexpensive way to acquire topo and fairly recent aerial photos.  We used to buy expensive lots of aerials to use, but MapCard is a great deal better.

If you have Township, Range, Section or Lat. and Long., it's a piece of cake to find your area of interest and once there you can move around and print photos down to 1:6000.  It cost less than $20 a year and if you have access to a color printer...good prints.

Laminate the sheets and you ready for bidness.

[SteveMcD]

Another vote for MapCard here.

[southernarcher]

mapcard

[Allan Hundeby]

Google Earth... I think there's no better FREE resource out there for hunters.  Gives an entirely new outlook on "funnel-finding".

[Doc Nock]

Great thread.

I've just gotten a new Garmin 76csx...way more than I need, but that special new receiver and antennae was why I opted for it. I keep trying to find out if any of the maps from sites like those above will download to a Micro SD card that can be switched out and used in the Garmin.

some opinions are that only Garmin map software will work on Garmin GPS... doh!  :(   I also hear that the only topos they have are 1:100 and that is pretty useless to identify features with that big a scale vs. a 1:25.

Anyone know for sure if any of these sites can be utilized through my computer and downloaded into a Garmin 76 series?

[Mike Bolin]

Thanks again for the input and ideas.....ttt for Doc Nock!

[adeeden]

Mike,
    I don't know if you know about this one for Indiana, It is unreal. I have actually zoomed in to the tree in a tree row where I had a stand, I can see my sister and kids on a trampolene in Mom's backyard as well. It also has topoo lines and boundries, and you can instantly seach a county then zoom from there. By far one of the best mapping websites online. Unfortunatley it only has Indiana!
Here's a link try it you won't be diasapointed!
http://www.in.gov/igic/projects/indianamap/index.html

[GingivitisKahn]

I'm not a big Microsoft guy, but Microsoft Live Earth is *way* better (IMO) than Google Earth (and Google Earth is pretty good).  It's also free.

[Mike Bolin]

adeeden, cool site! Just pulled up my hunting spots! Thanks. I am going to pull up Microsoft Live Earth right now! Thanks to all-Mike