Another Scouting Tool

  • mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    October 18, 2006 at 1:11 pm #1220032

    For people like me who have been scouting areas of the river that I have never fished.
    MSN Local Live
    It looks like most other maps with satellite imagery, but it also offers a “birds eye view” of places near Minneapolis and St. Paul. The images look fairly new (within the last 3 or 4 years). They are pictures that are from a plane that are at an angle as opposed to directly overhead. It should help finding areas for to fish from shore, especially figuring out if a road/park/trail gets near enough to the river.

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    October 18, 2006 at 4:21 pm #490220

    Another added to my favorites. Thanks pug

    ggoody
    Mpls MN
    Posts: 2603
    October 18, 2006 at 4:56 pm #490233

    Way cool……Pugs….tanks…….

    dfresh
    Fridley, MN
    Posts: 3053
    October 18, 2006 at 6:23 pm #490286

    Judging from some spots that I am very familiar with, I’d say that these pictures were taken during EXTREMELY high water conditions.

    Still awesome, though.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    October 18, 2006 at 7:51 pm #490344

    Yeah the water is high…very high in most the picts I saw. I could be off, maybe some are from the flood in the 97? I know if you click on the S,W and E directions in the birds eye view, it seems you get pictures from a completely different time. I wish the pictures were from a low water period, because that would be even more helpful.

    larry_haugh
    MN
    Posts: 1767
    October 18, 2006 at 11:13 pm #490413

    Way to go Pug.
    This looks like it could be a another useful tool.
    thanks for sharing

    dfresh
    Fridley, MN
    Posts: 3053
    October 19, 2006 at 9:10 pm #490782

    Looking at some of my MN river fishing spots on this tool – some were unrecognizable. Backwaters filled to the brim etc.

    Still and excellent thing to monkey around with.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    October 20, 2006 at 2:54 pm #491021

    I know that really bites the water is so high. I hope the day is coming that they’ll be able to update satellite picts quarterly or at least yearly/every other year.

    jakeh
    White Bear Twp
    Posts: 997
    October 23, 2006 at 3:31 am #488897

    WOW! Thats way cool. I can even see my house and truck. Those water levels are high.

    jonny p
    Waskish, MN
    Posts: 668
    October 29, 2006 at 4:00 pm #493412

    I can my girlfriends house and my truck…hey wait a minute THATS NOT MY TRUCK! HEY WHATS GOING ON ON THE BACK DECK!

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    November 7, 2006 at 12:28 pm #496750

    BUMP

    I guess they are adding 3D buildings to the application. Not really going to help us fishing-wise, but still pretty cool. I believe if you just go to local.live.com, you will see a button on the left for downloading. Only 2 buildings in Minneapolis so far, but it should get more pretty quickly. I hope that Google Earth does the birds eye view at some point, because that is really the one thing that will make me use Live more than Google.

    3D Info

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