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A free useful tool: Google Earth


LaZyDayZ

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Dont really know where on the baords to post this but I use it all the time. It's free and really helps when you want to know where a certain town or lake/stream is.

It called Google Earth. Here is some text from the site.

Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more

Here is a link

http://earth.google.com/

mods- Hope the link is appropriate, just thought this was a good free tool that many would enjoy.

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If you get a Merlin V620 Wireless PC Card Modem in your laptop you can have high-speed Internet anywhere (pretty much) you get a cellular signal. Then you can look up maps and images in the car or boat.

On some lakes you can see shallow structure in the images if it's a hard bottom area. Check Potato or Sand, for example.

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The cellular Internet service costs about $60/month, but you can use it in your home or cabin too. If you know how, it's not too tough to use that laptop to allow access from other computers to the Internet (sharing the connection.

I have a customer who listened to a local radio station (Internet broadcast) in his car from Florida till he got home through this service.

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