[GeoStL] Re: Lost Outdoors

  • From: Jim <everman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:24:49 -0600

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I just looked at their home page and it looks promising, I'm just not 
quite ready to spend $60 on it. I may ask for a demo sometime or cast 
about for other thoughts. The fact that they are pulling stuff off the 
net implies there may be free sites that also do this (like Lost Outdoors).
  Jim

BruceS wrote:
>     I used to use that site alot but don't know its current status.  I
> stopped using it when I started using expertgps.  This program is not
> free (unless you win a copy like I did :-) )  but it is not very
> expensive and I use it extensively along with google maps.=20
> http://www.expertgps.com/
> 
> Bruce
> 
> On 3/30/06, Jim <everman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>I have always liked the site lostoutdoors.com for getting satellite
>>photos and matching topo maps. Problem was, with dialup they take a
>>while to load. That's not a problem now since I switched to ADSL, but
>>the site seems to have crashed. Anyone else use that site or have any
>>idea where it has gone?
>>
>>Oh yeah - yes, I do like it better than Google maps. The photos in
>>general are much higher resolution, the topos match the photos and many
>>points can be plotted on one map. And you never see that "the resolution
>>asked for is beyond the resolution available."
>>
>>Geo Jim
 

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