I just received my new Minelab CTX 3030 a week ago Monday. And right off the bat I started training myself to take advantage of the geohunt/GPS features on the machine. While doing so I discovered a very cool "hidden" feature. This works in my area , I haven't seen anything about this posted before so I wanted to put this info out there as it has been extremely helpful for me.
What I noticed is this, I did a practice geohunt in my front yard and across the street. Made a few waypoints and find points. Later at home I loaded them into the XCHANGE2 software and viewed them. The google earth image showed my yard, and street, and the grassy area with a winding sidewalk across the street from me where I had made way points. When I clicked on the EDIT button, the google earth image that came up was an OLDER image from 2 or 3 years back when the area was undergoing some construction and now this image clearly showed the concrete blocks and large black pipes that were laid out in the area where the grass and sidewalk now are.
Fast foward to yesterday November 11th. When I was a kid I lived in a neighborhood that was torn out to put a new freeway in, on the street I lived on there was a Boys Club, which is still there but now called the Boys and Girls club, which had two baseball diamonds. The diamonds are now gone but the field is still there and I lived in a house on the Southern edge of the field, now also gone. So I did my hunt, made a bunch of find points and way points.
This morning when I loaded them into the XCHANGE2 software from my CTX 3030, I viewed the geohunt, and also created some new waypoints in areas that I wanted to make sure I hunted later as a reminder. So in viewing the waypoint I created I could see it on the google earth image which showed the field as it was when I hunted it yesterday. But when I clicked on the edit button of the waypoint, I could now see the old concession stand, and bleacher seats as they were before they were torn down!!!! Using this info I placed a few more waypoints, experimenting on their location then going back into the edit waypoint to see if I had placed them correctly and was able to get them right where I wanted, along the edge of the old bleachers and dug outs and around the concession stand.
How amazing is that? Has anyone else noticed that an older google earth images comes up in the edit feature on waypoints or findpoints? I'm sure all this could be found by researching older aireal (sp) photos or satelite images, but to have it right there on my CTX in the XCHANGE2 software right in front of my eyes when reviewing the previous days hunt was quite an amazing find in itself for me!!!
I have made screen shots of the different images in order to show what I mean but I haven't uploaded them in order to include in this. I imagine some of you have already discovered this?
I am not sure why it works like this, but I'll gladly take advantage of its usefulness! Thanks Minelab!
Don
What I noticed is this, I did a practice geohunt in my front yard and across the street. Made a few waypoints and find points. Later at home I loaded them into the XCHANGE2 software and viewed them. The google earth image showed my yard, and street, and the grassy area with a winding sidewalk across the street from me where I had made way points. When I clicked on the EDIT button, the google earth image that came up was an OLDER image from 2 or 3 years back when the area was undergoing some construction and now this image clearly showed the concrete blocks and large black pipes that were laid out in the area where the grass and sidewalk now are.
Fast foward to yesterday November 11th. When I was a kid I lived in a neighborhood that was torn out to put a new freeway in, on the street I lived on there was a Boys Club, which is still there but now called the Boys and Girls club, which had two baseball diamonds. The diamonds are now gone but the field is still there and I lived in a house on the Southern edge of the field, now also gone. So I did my hunt, made a bunch of find points and way points.
This morning when I loaded them into the XCHANGE2 software from my CTX 3030, I viewed the geohunt, and also created some new waypoints in areas that I wanted to make sure I hunted later as a reminder. So in viewing the waypoint I created I could see it on the google earth image which showed the field as it was when I hunted it yesterday. But when I clicked on the edit button of the waypoint, I could now see the old concession stand, and bleacher seats as they were before they were torn down!!!! Using this info I placed a few more waypoints, experimenting on their location then going back into the edit waypoint to see if I had placed them correctly and was able to get them right where I wanted, along the edge of the old bleachers and dug outs and around the concession stand.
How amazing is that? Has anyone else noticed that an older google earth images comes up in the edit feature on waypoints or findpoints? I'm sure all this could be found by researching older aireal (sp) photos or satelite images, but to have it right there on my CTX in the XCHANGE2 software right in front of my eyes when reviewing the previous days hunt was quite an amazing find in itself for me!!!
I have made screen shots of the different images in order to show what I mean but I haven't uploaded them in order to include in this. I imagine some of you have already discovered this?
I am not sure why it works like this, but I'll gladly take advantage of its usefulness! Thanks Minelab!
Don
