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<blockquote data-quote="DanRPhD" data-source="post: 1575685" data-attributes="member: 109154"><p>There is a very good way to produce your own maps for hunting. Go to <a href="http://www.mytopo.com/maps/" target="_blank">www.mytopo.com/maps/</a> and find your hunting area. Then go to Google Earth and find pictures of the same area. Resize both to match. Print out the Google Earth picture on paper. Next print the topo map on an overhead clear plastic slide, make sure it is compatible with your printer. Staple the map over the picture. What do you have? A topo map overlayed over an aerial picture. Why the two? One it can help keep you far enough from a building and two it shows where water ways are and just how they look from the air. </p><p></p><p>Got this tip from a Sargent LRRP from Viet Nam. He used it, the idea of knowing both the topo of the land and just how the tree tops made things look. I also read a book by a "top" hunter who said he always took an airplane flight over any area he wanted to hunt in. But this cheaper. I have been using this method for years with good results.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DanRPhD, post: 1575685, member: 109154"] There is a very good way to produce your own maps for hunting. Go to [URL="http://www.mytopo.com/maps/"]www.mytopo.com/maps/[/URL] and find your hunting area. Then go to Google Earth and find pictures of the same area. Resize both to match. Print out the Google Earth picture on paper. Next print the topo map on an overhead clear plastic slide, make sure it is compatible with your printer. Staple the map over the picture. What do you have? A topo map overlayed over an aerial picture. Why the two? One it can help keep you far enough from a building and two it shows where water ways are and just how they look from the air. Got this tip from a Sargent LRRP from Viet Nam. He used it, the idea of knowing both the topo of the land and just how the tree tops made things look. I also read a book by a "top" hunter who said he always took an airplane flight over any area he wanted to hunt in. But this cheaper. I have been using this method for years with good results. [/QUOTE]
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