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Looking closer, it appears you were using the USGS national map topo at level 17 in your screenshot. I was able to create waypoint #3 using the trick above (I clicked at the bottom right corner of the invisible box around the crosshairs). But zooming in another click makes it much easier...

Actually, you can create them even closer together if you "cheat" a little. The waypoint will always be created at the center of the crosshairs, but you can click anywhere within a box around the crosshairs. So, in your screenshot, it would probably work if you clicked to the southeast of the...

Yeah, there's kind of an invisible box around each waypoint and if you click there it just opens the waypoint. I found that it needed some room or it was too hard to click accurately on a waypoint (especially on a phone, where a finger is less accurate than a mouse). But the solution is just to...

So that's why you never answer my e-mails! :D

That is exactly what you shouldn't do, find some other way to take out your frustration... yell at your wife, kick the dog, break something... whatever. :D But seriously, you did exactly what they wanted. This is from the linked article: Even if you know the text is fraudulent, she says it is...

Rain on the way. Hopefully we won't get the kind of wind damage this storm has been causing in other places as it sweeps across the country...

That might explain it then, with a fire in 1936 and a topo released in 1942.

Looking some more... also shows as blank on the 250k topo from the 1940's when you zoom out on the historic topo here. Also see the USGS historical topo map explorer here. You can see that this is actually the 1942 Tuckerton quad. I named my map "1949 in the pines" because I liked the rhyme of...

Do you mean here? Sorry, no idea but it is interesting if all that area was really cleared. Agriculture? Clear cutting for lumber/wood pulp? Or maybe it was pygmy pines that they did not consider to be "forest"? Could be that they just didn't have good landcover data for that area and left it blank?

That MSN article was only about 3 paragraphs - is that really all there was to the WSJ story? Maybe there was a link to read the rest of the article lost somewhere in that sea of spammy ads, I bailed before looking too closely. Sorry, just don't have any patience for that kind of site anymore...

“It is obviously working; they are getting victims to pay it. This one apparently seems to be going on a lot longer than we normally see these things,” said Jon Clay, vice president of threat intelligence at Trend Micro. In this case, the “they” are likely Chinese criminal gangs working from...

Pareidolia? :D

So, if this is "one of the most popular breeds of pet turtle", does that mean you could legally buy one at a pet store? If so, would it there be a problem with putting it in some kind of appropriate container and taking it on an airplane? For me, a turtle is probably my second least likely...

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 2013 New Jersey NAIP Aerials are now available. Full coverage of the state at the same resolution (4 feet) as the original NJGIN version. I have also changed some map names to make it clear that the 2006, 2010, 2013 and 2019 aerials are all from NAIP (National Agriculture Imagery Program)...

I tried a couple searches, found some old posts but none that go back 20 years. Didn't see any suggestion that the planes were not real however From 2013: https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/airplane-below.9499/ https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/another-plane.9459/...

Well, I did use a smiley. :D I don't buy that theory about putting fake airplanes into aerials, sorry, makes no sense to me. It's true that cartographers intentionally put mistakes on maps in the old days to identify them (or so I've read), but a photograph is completely different. Should be...

Yeah, I'm 75 and not getting any younger. Can you refresh my memory, and link to some of those threads where "we always say they were just put there by the manager of the aerial"? The threads I recall were all real airplanes that just happened to be photographed. I think it would be tough to...

If you look at that imagery directly on Google Maps, it is attributed to Airbus/Maxar. They use satellites in orbits somewhere around 300 miles high to capture their imagery. I don't think you could tell the difference between a plane at 500 feet, 5000 feet or 50,000 feet from that distance.

Found it https://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.02916224462599&lng=-74.87938125352959&z=17&type=satellite&gpx= If you extend a line in the direction they're heading, it ends up very close to Atlantic City International Airport. So, maybe they are on approach to there? That same vector also...