Aerial maps?

I’d like to get dime aerial maps of my property. Anybody know how to go about this?

you can go to google maps/earth and get them. free

It really depends on the level of detail you are looking for. Google earth is a great place to start for free. The county abstract office can also get you maps, but the data used may be a bit dated.

Does anyone really know how to effectively print them from google maps? I have a hard time wiht it.

I’m lucky that I have access to a nice color printer here at work that will do 11×17 paper. I don’t know that I’d go to the mountains and rely on anything I’ve printed from Google earth, but for my needs, it’s sufficient.

Todders has a huge map on tag board at his cabin. He got it from the county. He had it laminated then mounted it on the tag board. Pretty cool stuff. I’m sure he will weigh in with more details once he sees this post. I think he is on the ice right now.

One other thing, I’m using Windows 7. It has a really cool snipping tool built in that allows me to get screen shots of just the data I want. I can then print from my default .jpg viewing application.

I ordered a large map of our land from mytopo.com. It was pretty easy to navigate the website to get exactly what I wanted. It was a 100$ and has helped with many aspects of hunting throughout the season. I am currently trying to get something a little better with a more recent image and a little more detail. It is such a valuable tool when we are trying to choose stands for the wind direction, trying to plan entrance and exit routes for stands, trying to choose sections of land that need a harvest plot and explaining the layout and our theories to leave the deer as undisturbed as possible to our weekend warriors to name a few. Whatever you do, get yourself a dry erase marker for ideas and maybes and mark the borders, stands and more permanent things with a sharpie. Good luck with your map!

I think I can help! I work with this information during my day job, and there’s quite a bit of resources out there if you have access to the software needed.

Laminating and marking up the current year’s sign is so incredibly helpful. And like you said, doing the boundaries or consistent stand locations with a sharpie, then the rest in dry erase makes the map update-able.

Joel