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Tin Man
11-29-2007, 10:26
Anyone notice, or find useful, Google Maps has added a terrain feature? It is a new button located next to satellite button in the upper right hand corner of a map. Check it out.

budforester
11-29-2007, 10:49
I hadn't seen that, thanks; will enjoy it for destination overviews. I checked a familiar area and it matched my knowledge of the terrain features. I wished for more zoom detail... maybe that's coming.

walkinfool
11-29-2007, 11:02
That's pretty sweet, Tin Man. It really helps put the AT route into perspective if you zoom out to see the Appalachians stretching up the east coast.

Johnny Thunder
11-29-2007, 11:06
Since Postholer.com uses G Maps for it's basis you are now able to look at their mapping of the AT on top of those GMap Topos.

Frolicking Dinosaurs
11-29-2007, 11:12
Good catch, TinMan.

mts4602
11-29-2007, 18:12
wow, they actually have trails if you zoom in close enough.

Pony
11-29-2007, 19:01
Would it be possible to use these as an alternative to buying the trail maps, or would you be better off shelling out the money?

Tin Man
11-29-2007, 19:25
Would it be possible to use these as an alternative to buying the trail maps, or would you be better off shelling out the money?

Buy the maps. The online map tools are not all that accurate.

Uncle Silly
11-29-2007, 20:25
Buy the maps. The online map tools are not all that accurate.

Plus the printed maps will be lighter than whatever device you'd have to carry in order to view the online tools. :D

Dakota Dan
11-29-2007, 20:31
I've been trying to decipher out a coordinate from it, and I haven't quite figured out how. Any suggestions?

Tha Wookie
11-29-2007, 20:45
Have any of you checked out NASA's World Wind? That is an impressive free program I just checked out today with incredible imagery. The main difference with it an Google Earth is in some functionality and that WW is open-source, with some amazing plug-ins. One of those is imagery of other planets. That's right, space imagery

Brad
11-29-2007, 21:02
Google Maps also has the AT (and other trails/fireroads) mapped in SNP.

Tennessee Viking
11-29-2007, 21:04
There are some new photos of the Tennessee/North Carolina line. They are pretty detailed, but they lose some clarity in color. But seems water bodies lost a lot. I can see some exposed rock croppings very well.