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08/03/2009 2:16 am
Saw the unanswered thread from 2/10 about the steamboat-ish house near Shreveport. Though I've got about the least acquaintance with that world of muddy water of anyone on this board, I do have a fast internet connection, so seemed to me I ought to be able to fly with Google maps and find it (looking for that railroad bridge, for starters).
Well, no such luck, but those satellite maps are an eye-opener for a guy from tidewater. The dozens, no, hundreds of layers of oxbows, and dead oxbows, and ghosts of oxbows is fascinating. I'm sure this is old hat to most of you, but I am darned impressed. Look at this stretch just above Shreveport:
(Hope that link is linkable, will try to put down at the bottom, too, just in case.)
Golly. And using Google to "fly" along the river makes the uninitiated wonder how you can ever keep the channel location in your head among all the odd paths the river takes.
For those of you who do this routinely without fetching up on bars, my admiration has no bounds.
Rog
(on the tidal Delaware where the channel doesn't move ... though a bulker did run aground out here just a couple of weeks ago, so I guess danger lurks everywhere)
16/03/2009 3:21 am
Try Google Earth!
Google Earth has so much more information. I have become a great fan of Google Earth over the last few months. I even experimented with my laptop computer linked to the 'net with a Verizon phone with the river charts downloaded and displayed on Google Earth. You talk about some information available at your finger tips when going to an unfamiliar place.
LOL, as Mark Twain would be happy to hear, the phone worked just fine at 6 mph, but I doubt it would work at all at 300 mph...
See: EarthNC - Nautical Data for a Digital World Welcome to EarthNC - Nautical Data for Google Earth!