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Does anyone know if there's maybe two Google Earth options with one having way better definition (clarity) than the other? A couple guys on one of the gun sites say they use Google Earth to locate PD towns and no matter how I zoom in or out I can't get a picture fine enough to ID anything like that.
There is only one Google Earth. The problem might be the area that you are looking in.
I live in the upper end of Dorchester County and it is mostly rural farm land, the lower end of the county is urban Summerville and North Charleston. Until about a year ago the sat pictures for the lower end of the county were clear all the way down as far as GE would go, but for the upper end they were grainy and would only go down so far. About that long ago, I went to the RMC office to get a copy of the registered plat for my place and the clerk pulled up a crystal clear picture of my house. I asked her how she got such a clear picture and she told me that they had just recently purchased new hi-res photos for the whole county and that they would probably be up on the tax map web site soon. Shortly after that is when GE got the new photos, too.
GE was upgraded a while back and you had to get the upgrade to view it. I don't like the upgrade as much as the old one. The old one allowed you to superimpose highways and roads over the photos at any height and you could tilt the pictures to look like you were looking way off into the horizon, but you can't do that anymore.
Try looking at a big city to see if the sat pics are clearer.
and you could tilt the pictures to look like you were looking way off into the horizon, but you can't do that anymore.
After reading this I looked ,,had to upgrade also ..
That feature is still there ...
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Does anyone know if there's maybe two Google Earth options with one having way better definition (clarity) than the other? A couple guys on one of the gun sites say they use Google Earth to locate PD towns and no matter how I zoom in or out I can't get a picture fine enough to ID anything like that.
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Come on Bundo, I thought you were originally from S.D.? I never been there, but guys say it's about the best and most popular prairie dog hunting in the nation.
Thanks everybody, I'll have to check Google Earth out further. The PD holes are all over and a real menace when on horseback working cattle on a multi-million acre ranch 35 mi. south of here and I had a terrific hunting deal down there but the two guys I cowboyed with are no longer working there, so that fun deal went down the crapper unfortunately. There's supposed to be a big PD town a few miles east of my place on the BLM but most guys in the know are close-mouthed about it (I don't blame them) so that's why I wanted to try Google Earth. I got a new 204 Varmint rifle that I really need to "test drive".
another decent and free explorer is Microsofts Virtual Earth,,,also has a neat to called "birdseye view"...some resolutions are better the GE,some are not,,,great features though
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Come on Bundo, I thought you were originally from S.D.? I never been there, but guys say it's about the best and most popular prairie dog hunting in the nation.
LOL, I wasn't thinking in the right vein. Yeah, we had prairie dog towns there, out by the Missouri & westward. I was about 100 miles east of the nearest one I knew of. Thanks for the clarification. I kept thinking "Police Dept."
No, every time I take a few shots at the police dept. they get mad at me.
There's big-time gas/oil field work going on in S.D. and N.D. right now. One friend of mine has been working over there doing rebar for the foundations for substations which serve the new wells and another guy has been doing gasline work in N.D. for the last two years. They say they're always looking for more help and paying big bucks.
Thank you, Lone 20, I'll be sure to bookmark that one too.
Yeah, there is also the lowest unemployment in the nation in SD now. Unbelievable. My wife just came into a few rural acres at the north end of the Black Hills, but I think we're going to sell it. Hopefully, it won't turn out to be an oil field down the road.
Hopefully, it won't turn out to be an oil field down the road.
Bad attitude.
There's nothing wrong with an oil field, expecially if you own the mineral rights to your land. I live in the middle of the biggest oil field in the USA, the Permium Basin of west Texas and southeast New Mexico. I can see several pumpjacks from my yard, including one about a quarter-mile away that I own part of the mineral rights. An F-150 pickup goes to each pumpjack about once a week to be sure it's still working right. A tank truck goes to each collector tank to collect the oil and haul it off to a crude-oil pipeline pump station. And there will usually be a drilling rig working somewhere within sight of my house. But no big deal. They don't bother me. No polution, little noise, and not enough oil-field traffic to bother me.
I can also see the tops of several dozen wind turbins (windmills) from my yard. Each one has a red light on top - I suppose to warn low-flying aircraft. On a clear night we can see dozens of those red lights blinking on the horrizon. But they don't bother me either.
If you city boys enjoy your motor fuel for your vehicles, and your electricity to run your air conditioners, and stores stocked with goods that were trucked to your town, then you need to learn to live with the side effects of energy production. Including pump jacks, and blinking red lights you can see from your back yard. Don't be a hypocrite like Senator Ted Kennedy and try to prohibit windmills being build where you might see them, then cry about lack of energy independence.
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I'm inclined to agree with you, Smokey. I can ride my ATV directly from my house to oilfield/BLM land. I went about 13 miles round trip yesterday and the land is dotted with oil wells, metal buildings, etc, and as far as "ruining" the wildlife and environment, there's generally a herd of right at 400 head of antelope running around throughout the oil field basin. I'd rather see that than a subdivision that fills up with big city escapees that two years down the road want to make the place like where they came from. Don't get me going on that one!
I understood BUNDO to mean he and his wife hope they don't find out there is OIL IN THEM HILLSafter they sell it!
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I never been there, but guys say it's about the best and most popular prairie dog hunting in the nation. 
Don't be a hypocrite like Senator Ted Kennedy and try to prohibit windmills being build where you might see them, then cry about lack of energy independence. 
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