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So how many use Google Maps Street View for research on new detecting sites?

but I do not use map view. I much prefer the satellite imagery of google maps and google earth. Ill have to give it a look.
 
I use Google Earth and Terrain Navigator Pro. Currently I am researching all the State Parks and recording those parks that seem to have a swim beach. I like to dive and wade on those beaches. It's something to do with the constant rain overhead.
FYI...I have run into a problem with the State Parks powers to be. Thankfully, they have decided metal detecting is a legitimate LTA for folks and have areas that are open to metal detecting in many parks. Guess what! The area DOES NOT include the water. You can go right down the beach where people frolic and use you metal detector. However, you can not step into the water. I think that when the maps were originally made there was no reason to include the water as the people who made the maps didn't know their was water detecting capability. Try CHANGING something in the government bureaucracy after it has been established, even if that was an erroneous decision. They aren't about to submit they made a mistake. Instead, they are throwing out all kinds of procedures, rule, regulations to justify their actions after the fact. Using a local legislator I am in the process of collecting the data and making an appointment to appeal their decision. I need prayers for this. Not luck! Jim
 
Hi Guys, which state? here in Calif it seems to be almost on a case by case basis, the State beaches are open, but many of the inland parks are closed. San Diego county is the same way with one park open and the next not. So I ask, and often get permission to go pick up "pennies". I also am careful with my digging and dirt as was noted in another thread. HH Terry
 
in the park I frequent,we have a sand beach with grass going down to it.In the grass,I need a permit from the park,on the sand beach and in the water,,,no permit required,the A.C.of E.has control/say over it.Check on it.
 
I kind of changed the thread. Sorry. I am in Washington State and all the parks require permits. Nothing to getting that done. Just a slight inconvenience. But no to the water. Some of the areas on the rivers where there are dams are, is controlled by the ACE. Most of the state parks are run by the bureaucrats in the state capitol. Jim
 
I started using Google Satellite a few months to get an idea what detecting sites looked like before I went to them.
It's proved to be a nice research tool.

HH --- Mark
 
I used it for the first time the other night after reading your post. It helped me find the site where I had the best hunt I've had to date. Thanks!
 
You are welcome and I must say I just discovered it by accident a couple of weeks ago and was very amazed by it,Ray.
 
Have you used the street view application yet? It is almost like standing on the curb of a park or other site and looking with your own two eyes.Mostly just for in-town and urban ereas but a great feature,Ray.
 
Hey ray Ive been using it for about a year and love it.
now im using google maps on my phone. it doesn't have street view but it still zooms in like normal.
I like it my phone cause i can find places to hunt wile wasting time at work lol. yea no computers allowed at work so i use my phone.
 
iv been doing good. Iv been working to much lately but with my 6th kid on the way i dont have a choice lol. I see you haven't been hunting much ether
 
how do you get the actual site for the maps. all i could get was pages telling you how to use the streetview. the last one was how to use it for riding your tryke.
 
I still prefer Sanborn stuff.. Picked up a 36 inch Plotter wide format printer for a good price and now print all those maps out 36x48 Inches and some on tracing paper for overlapping the older sanborn maps. Its really helpful.. Found a horse race track from 1917 no more than 200 yards from my office.. Crazy!!!.. But i will have to check that out as well,.. if i can print there current street view to closely match sanborns i can overlap a 100 year difference.. which is cool.. :clapping:
 
I just go to the erea i want on google maps and then zoom in as close as it will go and then a a button will show in the middle of my screen and will have a small picture with street view written under it and you just clik on there to open the street view.It is more for looking at sites that are in use now but could be used to compare the modern landscape to old maps and photos as well.You can type in an intown address of yours or a friends and see if your vehicle was in the drive when they photographed it.
 
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