Map that shows distance measured and the county boundaries

[timkilbride]

I'm trying to work on my GPS stuff for my BCD996XT. I'm trying to find a map that will show me distance between two points and the county lines. I can only find one or the other, nothing combined. What do you guys use?

TIA,

Tim K.

 

[N2JDS]

I'd use Google Earth. I know you can measure points, I even used it to measure my fence line, the county line part you turn on at the labels area, its a check mark on the left side.

 

[timkilbride]

I'd use Google Earth. I know you can measure points, I even used it to measure my fence line, the county line part you turn on at the labels area, its a check mark on the left side.

It does everything except one thing. It doesn't locate the center of the county. (ie. Linn County Iowa). I should have mentioned that in the original post.

Tim K.

 

[N2JDS]

Well, I'm a few states away, In Missouri. I'd say your center of the county lands right in the middle of a corn field. Just kidding, if Google earth is showing correct county lines, my guess would be at the following coord. Sorry if I'm way off, was just really bored and thought I'd give it a shot.
Lat 42° 4'48.33"N
Long 91°36'58.85"W
Plus/Minus a few corn rows over.
East of Co. Trunk Rd. W58, North of Randolph Rd.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.077563,-91.616344&z=13&t=h&hl=en

 

[timkilbride]

Well, I'm a few states away, In Missouri. I'd say your center of the county lands right in the middle of a corn field. Just kidding, if Google earth is showing correct county lines, my guess would be at the following coord. Sorry if I'm way off, was just really bored and thought I'd give it a shot.
Lat 42° 4'48.33"N
Long 91°36'58.85"W
Plus/Minus a few corn rows over.
East of Co. Trunk Rd. W58, North of Randolph Rd.

Google Maps

Your within a mile, which is fine. I found Yahoo does a darn good job of finding the center of the counties. I just copy and paste the yahoo coords into Google Earth and work from there.

Tim K.

 

[N2JDS]

Yeah, I crunched a lit closer and find more close would be a we bit southeast from there.
Someday I'll get another 996Xt or 396XT and do the coordinates thing. Good luck. I use this app to search out HOT zones for haz-mat area in disaster zones. It gives us a good idea on scene set ups with ingress and egress of EMS, as well as other helpful info. We use another application called Hurrivac, but not quite helpful in your area.

 

[timkilbride]

Yeah, I crunched a lit closer and find more close would be a we bit southeast from there.
Someday I'll get another 996Xt or 396XT and do the coordinates thing. Good luck. I use this app to search out HOT zones for haz-mat area in disaster zones. It gives us a good idea on scene set ups with ingress and egress of EMS, as well as other helpful info. We use another application called Hurrivac, but not quite helpful in your area.

Thanks for the help tho. You got me going in the right direction and I indirectly found something that will work.

Tim K.

 

[newsphotog]

FWIW, when I use FreeScan with RR import, it will grab the license data, enter the lat/long of the control point or tower site, and then it will import the allowed radius too, all in the GPS data fields of FreeScan. I don't know if it's 100%, but I noticed this when I was reprogramming a couple weeks ago.