1. Install Google Earth on your computer. Google Earth is an application. I leave the Google Earth icon in my dock at the bottom of my desktop (on an iMac).
2. Click the following and you will be back to your browser: Convert section-township-range at this site. This is "Earth Point." It is free but you can pay for additional services. I am using only the free service.
- About 1/3 down the page is: "Convert Township, Range and Section to Latitude and Longitude"
- Use drop-down menu to click on "North Dakota"
- Fifth Meridian will automatically be there for North Dakota (that's what you want)
- Use drop-down menus to fill in township, range, and section
- Then click on the "VIEW" button
- Automatically, the longitude and latitude will show up
- Run your cursor over the centroid longitude, latitude; it will look something like this: 48.4377284, -102.8965553 and "copy"
4. At the very top, on the left, at the Google Earth application, click on "Fly me."
5. Right below "Fly me," paste in your centroid longitude, latitude, and then hit the search magnifying glass, and Google Earth will take you directly to your section-township-range.
6. To the best of my knowledge, the photos are not dynamic; like all photographs they are dynamic and will be updated periodically. I have no control over when they will be updated.
For the iPad:
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the Google Earth application is an "app" that can be downloaded to your iPad for free.
For free.
And then, do the very same thing. Technically, it's even easier, because there place to type in longitude and latitude is so incredible easy to see, you can't miss it.
You can use your Safari browser on the iPad to go to Earth Point to convert section-township-range to longitude and latitude for the Google Earth app.
This is truly incredible. Magical.
The images are dated, some 2009, making the data useless. How do you obtain current images?
ReplyDeleteI assume Google updates the images periodically, but I could be wrong. I doubt the images are dynamic.
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