Google Maps A Boon to Hunters, Anglers, and Other Outdoor Enthusiasts

Written by Jeremy Henricks


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The Good and Bad

Google Maps provides both detailed street level and satellite imagery maps. Whilerepparttar street level maps coverrepparttar 135208 entire United States, Canada, andrepparttar 135209 UK,repparttar 135210 high resolution satellite images seem to cover only more populated areas. For outdoor enthusiasts visiting urban areas, this is great. But for those visiting rural or wilderness areas, Google still has a ways to go before more detailed imagery is available.

Images seem to be pretty up-to-date, at least withinrepparttar 135211 areas I checked. For example, my house is located near a new housing development, and I can see houses that were started withinrepparttar 135212 last year onrepparttar 135213 map.

With Google aiming to expand its reach, I'm sure that we'll see maps with greater detail and higher resolution inrepparttar 135214 future. That's good news for outdoor enthusiasts.

Things to Note

  • Image resolution varies by distance. Atrepparttar 135215 lowest resolution/farthest distance, you can identify large landmarks such as mountains, rivers, and large lakes. Atrepparttar 135216 highest resolution/closest distance, you can locate specific cars, buildings, trees, hills, creeks, and more.
  • Satellite images are current within a year or so, but they are not in real-time.


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Jeremy Henricks is an outdoor writer and founder of Henricks Outdoors (www.henricksoutdoors.com).

Henricks Outdoors is a leading provider of hunting, fishing, survival, and other outdoor-related Web sites for outdoor enthusiasts, including HuntTheOutdoors.com, FishTheOutdoors.com, and SurviveTheOutdoors.com, as well as OutdoorHits.com, an outdoor-related search engine and directory.


Dangerous Reef and its sharks

Written by Jakob Jelling


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Divers and visitors in general who come to Dangerous Reef withrepparttar main intention of observingrepparttar 135207 sharks should plan their visit between March and May. Between March and May is when white sharks can be more easily seen due torepparttar 135208 fact that during this time is when there are more chances that they would approachrepparttar 135209 shallow area.

Besidesrepparttar 135210 sharks and seals which can be observed when visiting it, Dangerous Reef also offers other interesting attractions. This Reef contains some very beautiful corals which divers could enjoy along with this area's interesting reef walls. Between March and April isrepparttar 135211 best time for visiting Dangerous Reef. During these months is whenrepparttar 135212 reef corals offerrepparttar 135213 best picture to observe and therefore it might berepparttar 135214 ideal time for visitingrepparttar 135215 area as well as during those months is when visitors in general can also haverepparttar 135216 chance to observe sharks near shallow waters.

Jakob Jelling is the founder of http://www.divepilot.com. Please visit his website to discover the world of diving!


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