New Land Information Website

[chickenminer]

Great site .... well done !!

[Featherdfishead]

Way to go Barry - i've been using Landmatters for the last few months and hadn't realized you were involved. Great resource - Thank You!

AjR

[beatup]

Barry thanks for all your hard work on creating a great site

[snakejim]

Great site! I've been using it regularly.

Thanks a heap!

[tvanwho]

Is my Win XP too old to use this,loads kinda slow , closeup Arizona aerials aren't as good as Google Earth,no detailed images, icons look identical to my new Footprints of Quartzite,Az dvd so easy to use. At least I can see land status and claims now in Tonto NF,Az,but hard to navigate to a particular map destination? Maybe am doing it wrong? Can I put in GPS coordinates?

Thanks for all the hard work.

[Clay Diggins]

Thanks for the encouragement everybody! There's lots more to  come. I just put up several more State Geology Maps and we are working on displaying Motor Vehicle Use Maps for the Forests soon.

Win XP can handle the site tvanwho. Some of the very early versions of Internet Explorer fail when using the Library Search but the maps should be fine. Land Matters is entirely internet based so it will always be slower than FootPrint maps which are running locally on your computer.  If you have a slow internet connection the difference can be um... frustrating.

The Aerial Photos, on Land Matters, are the highest resolution available to the public. About 40% of the U.S. is 1 foot resolution or better, the rest is three foot. Google uses a gaussian blur overlay to smooth their Aerials, it makes them appear to be smoother and higher resolution but the actual resolution is the same in the U.S.

Google does not allow other applications to use their Aerials so if you like theirs better you will have to use their platform.

If you are having jumpy navigation it's probably because you aren't waiting for the map to load before making a new request. The map remembers all your requests and loads them in the order you made them.

If you get too eager and click twice for the same action the map will see that as a different request and  start loading again without waiting for you to see the first request. Also If you have a laptop the trackpad will probably try to zoom in and out if you use two fingers so be sure to avoid touching the trackpad between map requests.

Land Matters maps don't have all the tools that FootPrints maps have. They do show your cursor position in decimal degrees at the bottom left of the mapping window and if you need degrees, minutes, seconds you can use the X/Y tool button to see the clicked coordinate position in decimal degrees and degrees, minutes, seconds.

Barry

[Bob(AK)]

I like it , thanks

[NuggetBob]

Weedoggie! That's some fancy fingerwork on the ol' keybored. 

[tvanwho]

Thanks Barry. I don't spose you could tell us why GPS numbers on Google based maps are now shown as xx.yyyyy, ex 32.11154,  instead of the old way of degrees ,minutes, and seconds? My handheld GPS does degrees/minutes/seconds also. How do I convert deg/min/sec to the decimal equivalent and vice versa?

Thanks. FYI,I normally use AcmeMapper 2.0 which shows GPS  with 5 decimals. Then, I use Google Earth to zoom in and get a view of the spot from different angles, perspectives, and elevations.

Determining land ownership is the next challenge. I sometimes can find this out by checking to see if a county has a free Online GIS Mapping system which will show property owners, boundaries, even property taxes paid. Sometimes they charge a fee for this service. Beats having to go to county courthouses or buying lots of Plat books especially if out of state...

-Tom