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Halberton, Cumberland County I have driven through Halberton many times and always wondered what, if anything, used to be here: http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.29571612829969&lng=-74.90939855575562&z=16&type=topo&gpx= The 1930 aerials don't give much clue...

If you're looking for a GPS, this strikes me as a good deal. The $250 price is listed in REI's Winter Sale brochure and is in effect from November 20-30. Here's a link; I guess it will continue to show the $400 price until the sale begins: http://www.rei.com/product/775802 This unit will give...

Garmin has just released a new beta version of the system software for their Colorado, Oregon and Dakota GPS'es with an important new feature - full support for user-created raster imagery! http://garmin.blogs.com/softwareupdates/2009/10/index.html The instructions at the above link describe...

I have been working in Philadelphia all week and it was so miserable when I came home last night that I didn't even go out for a walk. I use my wheelbarrow as an unofficial rain gauge, and had emptied it out on Tuesday evening. This evening I went out, and to my amazement there was about 10...

Who knew?... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124900300175395743.html

From what I've read, this only affects the Nuvi 7x5 series (755, 765, 785, etc), but there are a lot of upset owners out there... http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/23/garmin-7x5-series-devices-bricked-by-firmware-update/ See the discussion here...

When I click on the "Quick Links" dropdown, the menu appears way below the title bar and I have to "chase it around" to click on a link. I am able to do this with Safari on the Mac, but with FireFox on Windows I can't even "catch" the menu long enough to click on a link. I think this happened...

Garmin has released the first version of its new Basecamp software, which is replacing Mapsource for use with their topo products. If you already own the DVD version of US Topo 2008, this is a free download. It will also work with Garmin's new 24k topo maps (DVD version only) which are...

On Friday and Saturday the National Weather Service was predicting 60 degrees and a "nearly 100% probability" of rain this afternoon with damaging wind and thunderstorms. Instead we were treated to a beautiful sunny afternoon with temperatures approaching 80! I had a great day in the woods...

Cool little application has just been released at the app store, "Topo Maps" - see: http://chezphil.org/topomaps/ It's a really simple little program (which the author plans to enhance in future versions). You select the quads you want, then download them to the phone. It takes a few minutes...

Just drove past this... looked like a pretty hot fire was burning on the North side of Route 322 (Black Horse Pike) just West of the intersection with Route 50, somewhere near here: http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.47814182122211&lng=-74.71388697624207&z=18&type=h&gpx= From a distance I...

In case you haven't seen, the state has put up some new digital orthophotography. I downloaded some of the area around my house and it looks very nice - higher resolution than the old photos. You access them via the NJGIN website. Definitely a lot better from what I've seen on Google Earth...

Thanks to Ben's help, the first beta version of my Map of the Pines is now ready for download. Merry Christmas everyone! :dance: I'll use this thread to provide instructions and help. But please remember this is BETA, and it's free, so I make no guarantees or promises... use at your own risk...

Like many of you, I have been frustrated by the quality of Garmin's topo maps. So I've been doinig some research on this recently, and am finally putting together all the pieces to create my own, high resolution garmin-compatible maps of the pinelands. The map should be compatible with most...

I haven't seen these before... have you? There are nice, clean high-res scans of old topo maps for many states, including all of New Jersey: http://historical.mytopo.com/statemap.cfm?stateabr=NJ Here's an section of an 1884 topo And this is the 1949 topo (I have reduced the size of...

Last Thursday was another beautiful day, so I decided to explore the area around Oswego Rd in this vicinity: http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.66774650162723&lng=-74.41519618034363&z=14&type=m&gpx=. Classic pine barrens scenery on a little road which intersects Oswego: I guess it's...

Last Wednesday I decided to pay a visit to the Mountain since I hadn't been there for awhile. It was a perfect day to be in the pines; 77 degrees, clear skies, nice breeze. The road was passable in my car, with only a few soft sandy areas between Rt 539 and mountain. It's been very dry, so there...

Cool new interactive radar and weather station mashup from the Weather Underground here: http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=39.62996&lon=-74.77014&zoom=10&type=hyb&rad=1&rad.num=1&rad.spd=25&rad.opa=70&rad.stm=0&wxsn=1&wxsn.mode=tw&svr=0&cams=0&sat=0&riv=0&mm=0&hur=0

Credit: P. Cinzano, F. Falchi (University of Padova), C. D. Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder). Copyright Royal Astronomical Society. Reproduced from the Monthly Notices of the RAS by permission of Blackwell Science. Here's an interesting article on a topic we've...

http://www.mapwel.biz/index.htm See especially this section: http://www.mapwel.biz/autovector/hw_autovector.html User manual is here: http://www.mapwel.biz/download/mpwhelp_eng.pdf Looks like a clever hack for using images of maps, and possibly similar to what the MOAGU program does...