google earth

[dairyman]

WOW-----thats about all I can say about this free download. Really gives a guy the opportunity to check out the lakes. Just put your cursor on a spot on the lake and it lists out the coordinates. Impressive

[olbaidhh]

Welcome to the 20th century... lol

Prior to google there was the MicroSoft Terra Server, used that for years and years before google earth came out. No doubt Google Earth has made it easier for everyone.

[JimBuck]

If this is impressive, Google StreetView will flat out scare you.

[DaSwede]

Try going to Bing.com and looking at their maps. Find your lake, and then go to "birdseye view." Crystal clear pics.

[Jim43]

If this is impressive, Google StreetView will flat out scare you.

Great way to plan a vacation, used it last year to get to Munising, MI. Never looked at map after studying Street view for

a month or so before leaving. I use Bing and Google for travel

planning. Never use maps anymore with these tools.

Even works on my Ipod Touch and Wifi hot spots are every where.

[jwhjr]

GE is definitely a fun tool for finding things.

[DTro]

Try going to Bing.com and looking at their maps. Find your lake, and then go to "birdseye view." Crystal clear pics.

Yep, Bing is the new game in town, and the Birdseye view is great!

[CAMAN]

Hehe, yeah, the birdseye view is sweet. I've been using it for the past 3 or 4 years when it was only found on the yellowpages site. Now its much easier to use on Bing but still the same views.

[LMITOUT]

Are some confusing Google Earth with Google Maps? They are two different animals.

I use the Google Earth program for many different things and it's amazing what you can do with it. The DNR has a package of all the WMA's that you can overlay, NOAA has radar and other weather related overlays for the weather geek in me, and I use the tools in G.E. in conjunction with another program to make my own topo lake maps.

A buddy of mine used Google Earth to trace out the Missouri River channel south of Bismarck which he then transferred to his Lowrance so that it was easier to find his way in and out of the landing. The water was low when the aerial photo was taken so it was perfect for this year when the upper end of Oahe filled up and the main channels were not clearly defined due to the high water.

[McGurk]

Just checked out the newer version of Bing maps, haven't been on there for a couple of months. Way more intuitive and much faster and easier to use. Plus, you get to see some shallow lake structure. I don't know about getting coords off of it and how reliable they are, but still pretty cool. I'll be checking out more there from now on.

[Ed Carlson]

Check out Google Earth Pro once, that will blow your mind!

[mrklean]

i love google earth lots of good stuff on there just think if normal people like us can see the close tot he ground for free, think what the government can do, they could read the vin number off your car with there satellites

[eve21]

Is there something on Bing that needs to be downloaded to get all the features you guys are using? I was checking it out and the pic was not clear and I wasn't really getting any useful information.

Thanks

eve21

[CAMAN]

No need to download anything with Bing, but if you were looking at Wyoming I'm guessing it hasn't been scanned in a higher definition yet. Only the more populated and/or popular areas have been scanned for all the features available on Bing so far.

Check out a larger city to see what you're looking for. .

[scsavre]

I either had to download bing or just did it wrong. It was dificult prior to downloading. Anyhow i downloaded it and it is pretty good. very easy to use. The only problem is... unless i am fishing in the Metro it doesnt really do much more than other sites. Everything is pretty blurry up in lakes country, and it doesn seem to show the lake structure too much better. I havent figured out the street level tool, says not available etc.

Cool tool, that i will monkey with.

[dairyman]

I found the same thing up here also. I have found when I use a local weather map and change to sattelite view and zoom in I get comparable lake views

[scsavre]

Dairyman, kind of funny, DL is exactly where i was looking. My cabin is on Pelican, of coarse there was a cloud or something over 90% of the lake too.

[opsirc]

came across a site years ago, that you could zoom in so far, but to get corrds you had to subscribe. do not recall what the name was, does terra have this feature?