ThePreBanMan wrote:KLEMZ wrote:ThePreBanMan wrote:That said I do use my phone. But I use Google Maps. That because I can take a map from Google earth, with all my mark ups, etc, and export it to Google Maps making it accessible from my phone.
PreBan, I would love to here more detail on how you are doing this.
It's pretty simple actually. Export an overlay from Google earth to a KMZ file and then upload it to a folder on your Google Drive. It will now be accessible in Google Maps on your phone under the My Maps section. It will have all your mark ups on it, etc that existed at the time you exported the overlay.
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I do something very similar to ThePreBanMan, but just skip the google earth step. I put it all into google maps and work from there.
There is a much easier way. (The instructions below may 'sound' hard, but it is very simple.)
While at home / From your PC:
Log into your google account. Go to google maps. (You can toggle between different layers: satellite and map are most useful).
Click on the screen to add a location.
This location can be saved into a "list" on your google account. (I have several different different lists, one for each public land spot).
These locations can be saved as a "place" and named by adding a label.
On your phone:
Log into your google account
Open the google maps application.
All of your "lists" and "places" will appear.
These can be accessed and edited while in the field.
The imagery on google maps is the same as google earth. (Google earth has many more features, such as the ability to tilt and see previous images.)
With the google maps application "generally" showing all of the public hunting land boundaries, this helps greatly while at home and in the field.
To make it super-slick, I have an Excel spreadsheet, with hyperlinks to all of my public land places. Have also included links to my computers hard drive with pictures and videos taken while in the field. Makes it easy to sort and filter (afternoon stands, morning stands, wind direction, pre-rut, rut, late season stand locations, etc.) The hyperlinks go to the DNR webpage for that public land parcel, maps from the DNR online website, google map, parking spots, stand name, videos, pictures, number of times scouted and/or hunted, acceptable winds, treestand/saddle, season to hunt, etc.
I came up with this system after many years of scouting and having a bunch of spots on public land. (Too many to keep track of, had to get organized!)
A couple of videos that are somewhat similar to what I do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDF1cnd05cYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HhsIU8qXYsMy log is "somewhat" similar to what Dave does in his video, but I've hyperlinked everything in Excel as mentioned above.
This approach enables me to successfully hunt public land without a subscription to any type of service (OnX, for example.).
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No sponsors. No camera crew. No team. Just me and my bow. And that’s the way I prefer it.