Custom Maps

[King_B]

How many of you use, or would use custom maps available for purchase of a hunting area?

Upoin your request, for example, a map could include things like hunt boundary, places to camp, streams/rivers, springs, contours, point elevation heights, trails, etc.

The maps/layers would be compatible with Google Earth as well.

Thanks!

 

[msy]

Would these be a paper map or more of a computer program? One thing that would help persuade me would be to include public vs private lands.
I might consider it but to be honest it would have to be dirt cheap. Most of that info can be found online pretty easily.

 

[King_B]

Cool. They could be paper maps and/or layers for Google Earth. Something also that could be on a map would be a viewshed from specific glassing/sitting areas. For example, this could answer questions like: "If I hike to sit at point A, what area will I be able to see?" This way you could locate good view points without actually being there.

Thanks for the input.

 

[txhunter58]

Anytime I hunt a new area, I always get a custom map of the area from the link on this website. The additions you mention would be great if you can stay within their price range. I generally pay $15 for a folded, waterproof map.

txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)

 

[TOPGUN]

I make my own WY maps with property ownership showing in different colors and I can put coordinates for any spot on them to keep from trespassing, spots I want to go to, etc. I got that CD ROM for $50 about 10 years ago from MapTrails and I wouldn't be without it. In fact, it saved us $200 trespass tickets 2 years ago when a rancher said we were trespassing and I showed the Game Warden & Deputy Sheriff right where we were standing with matching coordinates on our GPS. The rancher had an old topo map and said his property line was at such and such a spot and he was wrong. The funny thing was that I had purchased the program right over the web from the F&G Main Office in Cheyenne! I believe there are a lot of companies offering CD ROMs like that now or chips that slip right in your GPS with all that info.

 

[WapitiBob]

All that and more is available free but people are lazy. There may be a market for it.

 

[txhunter58]

LAST EDITED ON Jun-11-11 AT 05:20PM (MST)[p]For $15 and 5-10 minutes of my time, I don't mind being a little lazy. Besides, map makers got to make a living too! All other jobs are overseas!

That said, I do love my Colorado TOPO C/D set. And might as well admit it...... I enjoy time spend searching and "scouting" with maps.....LOL

txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)

 

[CATMAN]

Txhunter. What link are you getting your maps from? Thanks