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Using Historic Maps In Google Earth For Treasure Hunting Research

March 9, 2010

in Research, Techniques, Treasure Hunting

One tool that I keep hitting on for your treasure hunting research is Google Earth which also allows historic maps to be overlayed into it. This allows you to sit back in the comfort of your own home and explore and pinpoint historical sites with amazing accuracy.

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Treasure Hunting With Historical Topographical Maps

Topographical maps are always useful when looking for locations to go treasure hunting. An even better resource are old maps which show places and landmarks which are no longer in use. Just think about what treasures you may be able to find at the old county fairgrounds or school track field.

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Google Trail View For Treasure Hunting

Premium GPS-based information from Trimble Outdoors and leading national publications—BACKPACKER, Bicycling and Mountain Bike magazines—is now available as a Google Earth Featured Content Layer.
This is the first multimedia GPS content layer for outdoor adventure seekers that allows Google Earth users to access a wide variety of data on fitness and outdoor adventures, including routes, GPS [...]

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Treasure Maps In The Library Of Congress

Although I personally don’t place much value in treasure maps per se, there are any number of maps available in the U.S. Library of Congress that do contain valuable information for the discerning researcher and treasure hunter. Some of these were produced by state and Federal agencies, while others were produced by private individuals.
In this [...]

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How to Start Treasure Hunting

There are many ways to begin a treasure search and I am going to show a method that works well for me. This is a way you can begin a treasure search without a map or a story, and if your lucky, find a place that hasn’t been disturbed by treasure hunters. There are a [...]

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Using Treasure Maps

By no means am I an expert on all things treasure hunting but I would like to share some of my thoughts with those who would care to listen. I have worked on more than a few outlaw treasure sites and it has been my experience that without a map it is very hard, if [...]

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How To Use Old Maps For Metal Detecting Research

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The Arizona Memory Project

The Arizona Memory Project is an online effort to provide access to the wealth of primary sources in Arizona libraries, archives, museums and other cultural institutions. This initiative provides the opportunity to view some of the best examples of government documents, photographs, maps, and objects that chronicle Arizona’s past and present.
The map section at http://azmemory.lib.az.us/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/shmmaps [...]

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Map of 7000 Holy Land Archaeological Sites

Israelis and Palestinians—after 2 years of intense negotiation and investigation—have mapped some 7000 archaeological sites in the Holy Land, many of them hotly contested. Some of the information had been kept secret by the Israeli military for decades.
The effort is being recognized with an award presented today at the American Schools of Oriental Research archaeology [...]

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