Magnificent Research Assistant

Cladiator

Hey all,

Not sure if this has been posted before...

There is a relatively new service ofered by Google.com that can be of huge help to metal detectors. It's called Google Earth and it's satelitte imagery of the entire world. The images are completely fluid and extremely high resolution. All of the images have been coordinated with all known addresses and it's very accurate. As an example of the accuracy and resolution of the images, when I enter in my own home address I can actually see my truck parked out infront of my house (remember these images were taken from space)!

Since I've recently been back in the detecting thought pattern I started checking out Google Earth. It really seems that it could be an excellent tool for finding locations to hunt. A quick search around my house has provided me with several plots and parks that I didn't even know existed, prime for a good lesching. You will have to download a bit of software from Google...worry not, it's quick and free. Anyway, try it out if ya like. The link is below.

Google Earth

goldrush00013

I've had it downloaded for around 6 months now. It's great to research prehistoric sites as well.

AgileMJOLNIR

Oh yes. Been on that one for awhile too. But your right. It's fantastic. It is going to come in very handy QUICK! Delete this post before too many people find out!!!

joefro

Yeah I downloaded the 20MB installation file last summer and I must say I am really impressed with this program. I mentioned it in the coin forum on the thread where people where talking about how google is nothing but a search engine and are going down soon... it kind of killed the thread. LOL. Anyways... you all should mess around with the overlays too. You can overlay restaraunts (breaking them down further into categories such as chinese, mexican...), schools, fire stations, even crime and population statistics. This program has infinite potential.

As for using it for metal detecting... I recently used it to find an old abandoned fort site that is hidden deep in the middle of a pecan orchard. Would have been impossible to find it otherwise. It only took 5 seconds to find it with the satellite images since it is a barren acre right smack in the middle of dense trees. Pretty cool.

AgileMJOLNIR

My favorite part of the program is going to lets say Seattle and tehn making the building 3D. After that, changing the axis and going down to ground level and actually navigating the city. Virtual driving so to speak.