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  1. Boyd

    The hurricane dead zone: Map shows coastline that hurricanes can't seem to reach

    Good news for us?... "And then something interesting happens around the Virginia border: The dots suddenly stop. Traveling north along the coast, a single dot marks a 1903 hurricane in southern New Jersey. The dots pick up again around the New York border. The map is a fascinating...
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    New Mid-Atlantic NAIP series

    A new map is now available for your amusement! :dance: 2017 USDA/NAIP aerials with mid-atlantic coverage. I will be upgrading all the NJ NAIP aerials to this larger area in the coming weeks. A bit of trivia.... my maps of the Pines are about 500,000 tiles. Full New Jersey maps are about a...
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    Only in New Jersey...

    From the NJ 2024 Property Tax Relief booklet I received the other day. Even dead people need to follow the instructions. :D
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    Real ID - do you have one?

    Finally got around to looking at the requirements since my Driver License is up for renewal this summer. Looks like a real pain in the butt, might be hard to come up with everything they want. https://www.nj.gov/mvc/realid/ My passport expired last year, apparently I could renew and use it...
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    Porch Pirate Criminal Network Stole Thousands of iPhones

    You often hear about "porch pirates", but this is really crazy! :siren: "Thirteen members of an international network worked to steal FedEx shipments of iPhones from people's porches, using automated scripts to scrape data from FedEx tracking systems and also bribing corrupt employees from...
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    Weird low frequency rumbling yesterday afternoon

    Did you hear/feel it? I was outside in the woods and there were multiple examples of this sometime between 3 to 5 PM. Thought it was very weird at the time, not like a sonic boom, it was an extended very low frequency rumbling that lasted a number of seconds each time. Really could not relate it...
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    Is that a turtle in your pants, or....?

    TSA conducted a pat-down Friday at Newark Liberty International Airport after a body scan alarm was triggered "in the area of the man's groin," according to a statement from the Transportation Security Administration on Tuesday. "When asked if there was something hidden in his pants, the man, a...
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    New Spielberg UFO movie filming in Woodbine

    The Mayor of Woodbine says he’s unsure of why Woodbine was chosen, but is happy to see the economic impact it is having on his town and the surrounding area. "We are excited about having the best in the industry here and we really look forward. We’ve been working with the production people and...
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    EZPass scam - don't fall for this one

    Just got this text message Obviously fake if you look closely - the sender was some guy at outlook.com and the website address is also bogus and the wording is weird. Here's some info from the (real) EZPass site. Makes me wonder though, are they just guessing I have EZPass, or were their...
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    Fort Mott wildfire

    (mod note: posts split from a thread about rain) This is a weird one. Small storm is being spawned around Salem and moving fast to the Southeast, the most intense part is currently at the border of Quinton and Alloway and it just seems to keeps going. Nothing else on the radar anywhare in the...
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    Increased Risk of Fire Spread Saturday Afternoon

    Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 112 PM EST Fri Feb 28 2025 Hunterdon-Somerset-Middlesex-Western Monmouth-Eastern Monmouth- Mercer-Salem-Gloucester-Camden-Northwestern Burlington-Ocean- Cumberland-Atlantic-Cape May-Atlantic Coastal Cape May- Coastal...
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    Glassboro-Camden light rail line

    https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/local/2025/02/20/nj-transit-president-kris-kolluri-urges-gcl-light-rail-line-camden-rand-center-redevelopment/79178304007/ I don't know anything about this project, it may be something great and I'm usually supportive of expanding public transit...
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    Realistic scenes in the terrain viewer (with tutorial)

    Have been wanting to do this for awhile, finally getting around to it. :) It's possible to create some fairly realistic scenes using aerial imagery in the terrain viewer, but it takes some understanding of how light reveals three-dimensional objects to get the best results. See the next post...
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    Introducing the new 1970's aerials

    After about three months of starts and stops, the 1970's aerials are finally available! You should see them on the menu between the 1980's and 1930's aerials, here's a link to try. https://boydsmaps.com/#17.00/39.750392/-74.584688/pines1970/0.00/0.00 If that link doesn't work, or if you have...
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    boydsmaps in the post-NJGIN era

    Note: This new thread includes posts that were split from the trouble report thread. To summarize: we no longer offer maps from the NJGIN servers, due to compatibility issues. However, many of their maps are now available directly from boydsmaps. These local versions cover the entire state of NJ...
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    Terrain viewer update coming

    I think it was @pinelandpaddler who requested this awhile ago but I was kind of cool on it (or was it somebody else? Sorry, can't find the thread). Anyway, was playing around with the terrain viewer recently, thinking "I wish I could zoom out farther!" :D Still some work to do, but it's...
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    Light or Dark? (2020 vs 2023 topo)

    After introducing my 2020 dark-themed topo, some people wanted a light topo since I deleted the old "Map of the Pines HD" which just had too many errors. I agreed and introduced one at the end of 2023. Now, a year later, it's interesting that the dark 2020 topo is still much more popular, based...
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    Snow?

    I guess some of you have already had snow this season? Nothing here yet, awhile ago we had a light dusting that melted quickly, so this might be our first snow of the season. Map shows me on the edge of the 2" zone. My snow thrower's gonna stay in storage, it's been 4 years (?) since I've had it...
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    What is happening in this place?

    Working my way through the 1970 aerials, this place stood out as being unusual You'll have to wait a little while before the 1970's aerials are online, but it shows clearly in 1980 https://boydsmaps.com/#16.00/39.979926/-74.467711/nhap80/0.00/0.00 By the 1990's, it looks like trees or...
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    Incoming: 2000's Mid-Atlantic aerials

    This map joins the 1980's and 1990's regional aerials with full coverage of New Jersey plus portions of neighboring states. The original imagery was a mixture of color, monochrome and infrared but I've converted it all to 8-bit grayscale for this map. These come from a variety of individual...
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