Aerial Maps

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Who/Where would be the best resource to turn to for an aerial map?

I’m wanting to get an aerial map made of my hunting property and don’t really know where to start. I’m looking for something in the 2’x2’ or 2’x3’ size to put on the wall. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I’d appreciate it.

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Used this one https://propertylinemaps.com/ and another in the past, I’ll have to research that other company.

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You could start with the county tax assessors office or go online to their GIS website for a copy of the tax map. The quality of the image will depend on the resources available to that particular county to maintain up-to-date aerial imagery. For example, Charleston, Lexington or Greenville County will have more info and the most recent photo’s than a more rural, less populated county like Jasper or Dillon. The tax map will show property lines and adjoining property owners information in case you’re wondering who your neighbors are. The better websites also show topographic features, wetlands, soil types, streams and ponds, and a lot of other info if you just look for it. Save the image to your thumb drive and most print shops or office supply stores offer color printing in a wide variety of sizes. Fees depend on size, color or black/white, and paper quality. The local assessors office will also print for you for a fee. Google or Bing maps are another option. Find your parcel and hit the print screen button. This is basically a “save” of what is showing on the monitor. Save as a JPEG or PDF and again, transfer to the thumb drive to have printed. The quality of the info will greatly depend on where the property is located. You can look through all three and see completely different images of the same property. Some photo’s are taken in the summer, so everything looks green from the tree canopy. But some are taken in winter months, making it easy to distinguish between pines and hardwoods. Bing also offers low angle oblique images for some area that you can rotate on screen. Very helpful to get different views of an area.

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Never even thought of the tax assessor. I’m hoping to do a topo overlay on an aerial map view. I wish I could somehow use my Huntstand App map. The detail on that thing is great.

Thanks again.

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If you get a sizable quality print and you want to display it, I’ve taken a map to Michael’s recently and had them put it on that hard plastic foam board. Super light and durable and looks great. It’ll cost you like $40 and last a lifetime.

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Thanks 23. Yeah, I was definitely considering some sort of backer, like a cork board or something like you described.

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Once you get the image A&E Digital and Duncan Parnell could plot your image and likely laminate it cheaper. You could use dry erase to mark it up for who is using what stand, feeder/camera/scrape/rub locations.

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Thanks GW!!

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We can make custom maps for you showing roads, stand locations, blinds, etc. and print out on large plotter. We have infrared layers, true color, LIDAR elevations, etc. Located in summerville

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quote:
Originally posted by bangstick

Never even thought of the tax assessor. I’m hoping to do a topo overlay on an aerial map view. I wish I could somehow use my Huntstand App map. The detail on that thing is great.

Thanks again.

God bless the “ignore” function.

Greenwood county, and I’m sure many others, have the topo maps (and utilities, etc ) built into the tax maps. I look at it 2-3x per week for random things. Sometimes it is in the “layers” part of the websites.

BG

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Google maps/earth also has some very nice overlays. There is a way if you use Firefox browser to zoom in on an area you want, like as close as it will go, then dictate the size of the total area and save it as an image file, it will be large but also have as much definition as you want free. Then you simply find someone to print it on the material of your choice.

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First you need Bullzip PDF Printer (Free)
then Google Earth (not maps)
then move to the area you want an image of. Might have to turn off some labeling layers.
Then select save image up at the top of the screen, next to the printer icon.
Once you save the image, print with the Bullzip PDF Printer, select an Arch E or Arch D (look up those sizes) then save the PDF to a thumb drive and have someone plot it. (Plotter is just a big printer, it used to make it’s images by plotting with pens like a CNC machine.)

I have to do this at work a lot. Just printing from google earth does not yield the best resolution on the image.