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Personnewcampers7471
22/4/2011 at 10:38pm
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Does anyone else use Google earth to pin their camping trips? Sad that I am I have even pinned individual pitches on the same site....I guess that makes me a camping geek after 2 years of occasional canvas dwelling?

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PersonFormer Scout
22/4/2011 at 11:07pm
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I use Google Earth to locate campsites as post codes are often not accurate in the middle of the countryside. I also use it as one of several tools to gauge whether a particular campsite is the sort of site that appeals to me.


PersonHT James
22/4/2011 at 11:29pm
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Doing the usual game of playing with Google Earth I actually managed to spot my own tent on a site at Rhandirmwyn.

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Personvictoria1
22/4/2011 at 11:53pm
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I use Google Maps (can't honestly tell what the difference is to Google Earth). I placemark all the sites around N.Ireland by signing in to Google, clicking on 'My Maps' and now I've got a couple of different maps going. I've wasted hours doing these maps up! Each 'blurb' contains the contact number, the website and any important notes about the site too, and it's colour coded Blue for normal, Green for forestry, and pink for Caravan and Camping Club!

When I'm going camping to somewhere new I'll investigate the location of a certain car park that is handy to a place where we want to go, or where the chinese is, or whatever. By right clicking and selecting 'what's here' you can get the co-ordinates which can be fed into the Sat Nav.....brilliant!

I'm a map maker(a cartographer)so I always look to a map before I'd use some other method of journey planning.



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Persondcope
23/4/2011 at 9:49am
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i use google maps as its esier to share for me walks and maps, check me sig below.

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PersonZeelees
23/4/2011 at 9:52am
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Blimey,what I good idea! Oooh and another reason to spend even more time planning our camping trips...thank you guys!

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March- Padstow
April- Forest Glade
June-Grizedale
July-Jedburgh
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Personkatieb53
23/4/2011 at 12:07pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Zeelees on 23/4/2011
Blimey,what I good idea! Oooh and another reason to spend even more time planning our camping trips...thank you guys!
Don't forget that they are not completely up to date...the picture of Fforest Fields for instance doesn't show the two lakes that have been there for four year now!

KatieB

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Personchelsea girl
23/4/2011 at 1:59pm
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Always use google earth to look at locations.  Like to see if campsites are next to things that might spoil our trip (busy roads, rail tracks etc)

Also, I can spend a good hour or two just pondering over google earth and finding campsites that may not always show on here.


PersonJasmine_Park
23/4/2011 at 2:52pm
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I was also going to mention that google earth can be very out of date, our last 'picture' was taken in 2008 and the park has changed an awful lot since then.


Personrjgukc
23/4/2011 at 3:03pm
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Quote: Originally posted by victoria1 on 22/4/2011

I'm a map maker(a cartographer)so I always look to a map before I'd use some other method of journey planning.



Fascinating. I'd be lost without a map (if you see what I mean). Before I retired I was responsible, amongst other things, for all the digital and paper mapping within our organization and used to train staff in the use of GIS and liase with Ordnance Survey at Southampton on copyright, updates and other issues.

I find the use of mapping on the web really useful and use it with geocoded photos of our various trips, including our visits to WW1 battlefields in France and Belgium.

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Richard

2011
May: Crowborough (*****)
June: Oldbury Hill (*****)
July: Rother Valley (*)
August: Gate Lodge (Cancelled)
September: Graffham



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