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Continuing on my current nostalgia trip, I have just published a new map of the vintage USGS DRG Topo's we used twenty years ago. These were the first digital versions of the 24k topo maps available from the USGS. They were also used by terraserver and topozone and I have updated my link...

After browsing old threads recently, I got the idea of fixing all the broken links to terraserver. And today, with Guy's help, it's done! I wrote a translator that "ingests" the original link and opens a new link to the boydsmaps 1990's B/W aerials. These aerials are from the National Aerial...

This came up in a Google search for something completely unrelated. Never heard of the Evergreen Foundation before and don't recognize any of the many people in the stories. They're probably all well-known, I just don't know them (but I don't get out much). :D Only scrolled through this...

Here's something I never noticed before. On the old topo maps, the section of the Mullica between Atsion Lake and Batsto is labelled as "Atsion River". Can't remember any discussion of this before, maybe I missed it? You can see it here: Vermeule...

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...

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...

From the NJ 2024 Property Tax Relief booklet I received the other day. Even dead people need to follow the instructions. :D

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...