Google Earth Sighting Maps, Comprehensive Report Maps Options

[Sasquatch13]

Thank you for all of your hard work it is truly impressive. :new_thumbsupsmileyanim:

[NWSquatcher]

Mangani or any Google Earth Guru's out there,

Is there a way to isolate a specific geographic area using the bigfoot reports kmz file on Google Earth? I would like to pin down a region for some field work and have so far been unable to find a way to do this and ended up starting to enter the data manually.

I noted that lat/long for some reports from IBS is a general area, example: 5 reports with an identical lat/long with report giving description/directions within a 10-20 mile radius. The lat/long is identifying the closest town.

Thanks Mangani for all your hard work and effort, it's truly awsome.

[Mangani]

Mangani or any Google Earth Guru's out there,

Is there a way to isolate a specific geographic area using the bigfoot reports kmz file on Google Earth? I would like to pin down a region for some field work and have so far been unable to find a way to do this and ended up starting to enter the data manually.

I noted that lat/long for some reports from IBS is a general area, example: 5 reports with an identical lat/long with report giving description/directions within a 10-20 mile radius. The lat/long is identifying the closest town.

Thanks Mangani for all your hard work and effort, it's truly awsome.

There is a way to do almost anything, but in this case I can't think of an easy one. The only way I know of would be to extract all the data into a database application and filter out the records with latitudes and longitudes that fall outside of the target area, then recompile the remaining data into whatever format you need. In short it would be a fair amount of work. There may be some geographic systems software applications out there that could accomplish this with a click of the mouse, but if there are I don't know about them. Belemnoid may have some further insight. If you want to do this yourself and know something about database or spreadsheet software and are up to figuring a lot of it out on your own I can probably point you in the right direction.

[NWSquatcher]

There is a way to do almost anything, but in this case I can't think of an easy one. The only way I know of would be to extract all the data into a database application and filter out the records with latitudes and longitudes that fall outside of the target area, then recompile the remaining data into whatever format you need. In short it would be a fair amount of work. There may be some geographic systems software applications out there that could accomplish this with a click of the mouse, but if there are I don't know about them. Belemnoid may have some further insight. If you want to do this yourself and know something about database or spreadsheet software and are up to figuring a lot of it out on your own I can probably point you in the right direction.

Thanks Mangani, I am familiar with Spreadsheets and Database Software, yet, was hoping that I wouldn't have to resort to a manual compilation, perhaps this winter when the snows are deep :wink: I have already begun to enter the data manually in Google Earth. Thanks for the response. If I do work out a database solution that allows geographic filtering using the GE software, I will post it.

[belemnoid]

Mangani or any Google Earth Guru's out there,

Is there a way to isolate a specific geographic area using the bigfoot reports kmz file on Google Earth? I would like to pin down a region for some field work and have so far been unable to find a way to do this and ended up starting to enter the data manually.

I noted that lat/long for some reports from IBS is a general area, example: 5 reports with an identical lat/long with report giving description/directions within a 10-20 mile radius. The lat/long is identifying the closest town.

Thanks Mangani for all your hard work and effort, it's truly awsome.

I can probably help you....but I don't completely understand your question. If you are just looking for a specific area can't you just view the data in google earth?
If you give me a detailed description of your query I can probably run it in ArcGIS.

Also, you shouldn't have to enter the data yourself - I think that Mangani still has text files on his site that I was using to bring the data into GIS.

[l3lacken]

wow, this is amazing, actually something to make Me download GE lol, thanks alot for this amazing piece of work, now hopefully I will be able to answer some questions I have been asking myself for awhile regarding reported sightings and their correlation with some major hiking trails.

[bigfoot: i belie...]

Sweet and Awsome

Nice info. :new_thumbsupsmileyanim:

[belemnoid]

Sweet and Awsome

Nice info. :new_thumbsupsmileyanim:

All you long time Google Earth users make sure to download the latest upgrade - there's lots of of great new imagery available.

[Mangani]

IMPORTANT

Please use some common sense with these maps.

I have already tried to make it clear that the locations are approximate. The coordinates are only my interpretation of general verbal descriptions found in the source reports. There is a margin of error of one mile or greater. But at least one person has apparently missed that point causing consternation for a landowner.

Please do not assume that because an icon on the map is on a particular piece of private property that it represents the actual location of the encounter and please do not inform a landowner that there is a report of an encounter on their land.

If you want me to continue to make this resource available please respect all property rights and do not annoy landowners.

[Roadrunner]

I have found the markers are in the same general area as mine, and I spent a great deal of time finding the closest reasonable location to place my markers. Because I have some that I marked myself with google earth, most markers (both mine and yours) are adjacent to each other with little margin for error, so I'd say they must be accurate. I can understand how some reports can only have their location guessed within 3, maybe 5 miles, others have more detail and are deadly accurate.

[Bobby Orangeboom]

I have found the markers are in the same general area as mine, and I spent a great deal of time finding the closest reasonable location to place my markers. Because I have some that I marked myself with google earth, most markers (both mine and yours) are adjacent to each other with little margin for error, so I'd say they must be accurate. I can understand how some reports can only have their location guessed within 3, maybe 5 miles, others have more detail and are deadly accurate.

Hi Roadrunner, just for my own piece of mind, you are talking about the US here & not markers in the UK where we're from aren't you ???

[Roadrunner]

correct.

[Mangani]

I have found the markers are in the same general area as mine, and I spent a great deal of time finding the closest reasonable location to place my markers. Because I have some that I marked myself with google earth, most markers (both mine and yours) are adjacent to each other with little margin for error, so I'd say they must be accurate. I can understand how some reports can only have their location guessed within 3, maybe 5 miles, others have more detail and are deadly accurate.

I do the best I can to make the location of the reports accurate, given the information I am working from. But that certainly does not mean that the locations are precisely accurate. Rather there is a significant margin of error or lack of precision.

Unfortunately there are people who do not understand this distinction. Apparently they see the placemarks on a highly detailed map and assume because the map is highly detailed that the placemark is accurately located with the same degree of precision as everything else on the map. And this most certainly is not the case with this project.

[Roadrunner]

Yes I agree, as far as ther being a significant margin for error. I did not place mine with the notion that it is the exact location of an encounter, this is ridiculous, only the witnesses themselves know this information. However, it could be agreed upon that the marker represents a general area of encompassing between 0-10 miles in circumference.

[PsychedelicShroo...]

I've been using Google Earth, a free application from Google, to search out likely squatching areas around Coos Bay Oregon, and I got to thinking...

Google Earth has a community database, where users can pinpoints locations anywhere on earth and add their own notes. Why hasnt anyone added a sasquatch community database to this thing?

Anyone know a bit more about this application and how it works? Maybe we can get something started.

Google earth is a great Application, and if your graphics card is fairly modern, it works 1000% faster than using google satellite maps on the google website.

You can get it free at the following link, however I recommend that it be only used by those who have: dsl or better, 256 Mb or more of RAM, and at least 1 GB Processor.

Download it Here.

This post has been edited by PsychedelicShroom: Jan 16 2007, 02:19 AM

[Bobby Orangeboom]

http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?showtopic=14228

Here we go my Friend !! :wink:

[Sasquatched]

Why limit things to Google earth only?

THIS is a pretty cool app that opens up a number of Mapping platforms/protocols...

Here's a nice example that shows the USGS topo and the Google maps protocol platform - but you can then select different platform/protocols from the drop down to look at the same waypoints...

[creekfreak]

I use it with the grid ive marked every place where there have been sightings and sounds heard in this area . I will be useing it also when I am in the feild to find the swampyest places I think he is hideing . Its a great tool

[Randy_Hutchings]

Mucho gracias Mangani...

I've been working on a TN sighting map via Google Earth, and after finding Your map, Your work has made it quite a bit smoother...

Once more, thanks for Your time and efforts in this...

[Mangani]

Mucho gracias Mangani...

I've been working on a TN sighting map via Google Earth, and after finding Your map, Your work has made it quite a bit smoother...

Once more, thanks for Your time and efforts in this...

De nada Randy.

If you don't mind sharing what you are adding, I'd like to suggest that you pass along the reports you have mapped independently in a separate .kmz file (PM me for an email address) so I can add them to the main project file. I know I have not made the effort to gather all the reports from the southeast that are online.

[PsychedelicShroo...]

http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?showtopic=14228

Here we go my Friend !! :wink:

Gah! What are ya, some stinkin' Genie?

*shakes head* shopuld have figured that someone had already thought of this. Boy, am I embarrrassed.

This post has been edited by PsychedelicShroom: Jan 16 2007, 03:39 PM

[Robert]

http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?showtopic=14228

Here we go my Friend !! :wink:

This is FANTASTIC! Way to go! You can click on all the sub categories just to see where tracks have been reported, or just where the Ohio group sightings are, Texas, Penn., etc. etc.

Someone spent a lot of time on this. If you already have Google Earth, just click on the link and then go to "File" and "Save to My Places". Great job!

[l3lacken]

credit where credit is due I believe................

Mangani <<-----

there is the person who created what I feel is one hell of a resource for us to use.

Hell I hated Google Earth and deletted it everytime my kids downloaded and installed it on my puter, till I saw what was done with it.

[Bobby Orangeboom]

credit where credit is due I believe................

Mangani <<-----

there is the person who created what I feel is one hell of a resource for us to use.

Hell I hated Google Earth and deletted it everytime my kids downloaded and installed it on my puter, till I saw what was done with it.

No no, keep the credit coming to the Person who provided the link to Mangani's Genius !!! :wink:

I'm sure he won't mind !!! :biggrin: :biggrin:

[HarryHenderson]

8 of the last 10 posts above were merged from the recent thread "Google Earth and Sasquatch, possible tool for cataloguing sightings and finding trends?" started by PsychedelicShroom. The subject matter is the same and it's better to have just one 'conversation' going on the same thing. :smile:

[Mangani]

8 of the last 10 posts above were merged from the recent thread "Google Earth and Sasquatch, possible tool for cataloguing sightings and finding trends?" started by PsychedelicShroom. The subject matter is the same and it's better to have just one 'conversation' going on the same thing. :smile:

:new_thumbsupsmileyanim:

[Mangani]

Why limit things to Google earth only?

Nobody said you should. :happy: The beauty of Google Earth lies in the price ($0), the photo images, 3D capability, user interface, etc., etc. The drawback is that you must be online with a broadband connection to use it. But the same data can readily be converted to other formats for use in "stand alone" mapping applications.

THIS is a pretty cool app that opens up a number of Mapping platforms/protocols...

Yes. And you can also use GPS Babel to convert the data for use with other applications. That is how I convert the data, which is first compiled in DeLorme Topo USA, for use in Google Earth.

[Tirademan]

Thanks for the continued positive feedback. Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Mangani, thank you for all of your hard work! This is an awesome tool...really cool of you to share.

If you want to include any of the old newspaper reports I've found, feel free to do so. You could link back to the original posts in the Historical Archives thread here(?). Although there are stories in that thread that you probably wouldn't include, there are many others you probably would want to. Somewhere around 650 total to wade through. Check them out here:

http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?showtopic=5705

tirademan

[Randy_Hutchings]

I've noticed a couple spots are quite a ways off from the sighting area in which they occurred, but still, by leaps and bounds, this map kicks a whole lot of bootay...

[Mangani]

Mangani, thank you for all of your hard work! This is an awesome tool...really cool of you to share.

If you want to include any of the old newspaper reports I've found, feel free to do so. You could link back to the original posts in the Historical Archives thread here(?). Although there are stories in that thread that you probably wouldn't include, there are many others you probably would want to. Somewhere around 650 total to wade through. Check them out here:

http://www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?showtopic=5705

Good suggestion and on my to do list, but pretty far down right now. I would expect the effort would require about 150 hrs. Some day maybe.

I've noticed a couple spots are quite a ways off from the sighting area in which they occurred, but still, by leaps and bounds, this map kicks a whole lot of bootay...

Corrections are always appreciated. "If it is worth doing..."

[smoodiver]

One of the most interesting things I've come across in a long time, I can't believe the amount of time that must have gone into this, thanks for this.

[Jeffro]

This is simply awesome, it has really helped me out in finding sitings near by and looking at the aerial photos of the area in question. I think this thread should be stickied.

[piqued]

This is simply awesome, it has really helped me out in finding sitings near by and looking at the aerial photos of the area in question. I think this thread should be stickied.

Hey there! Just wanted to let you know that the link from your site to download the KMZ file isn't working. Looking forward to re-installing this database (cleaning up my GE files n' personal waypoints).

Great job!