Need VGN Map Help: Stewartsville, Roanoke, Ingleside

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Hi Abram, 

Google has a variety of add-on features in Google Maps that you can access with a low cost Google account. It allows you to suggest corrections to Google’s maps, add new points of interest, review businesses, etc. The best feature is the afore referenced My Maps, on which you can draw your own (or collaborate with others to draw) maps and do various other map-y things. Based on your descriptions, there is some Venn-overlap between the two tools (Earth and MyMaps).

Linked below is an example showing the route of the N&W and C&O (and others) through Ohio, with the N&W’s proposed low-grade line between Locks (below Chillicothe) and Kingston laid out - look for all the pins. A neat find from the archives. 

I have Earth installed on my machine, but I haven’t done much with it. If it is as colloratively-y or shareable as My Maps, I should give it another look. I suspect My Maps is a lighter weight subset of Earth?

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1BVnwiqoUpdsCLhg5vDaL6d2ZfFc&usp=sharing
Central Ohio Railroads - Google My Maps
google.com


Matteos Goodman de Columbo
 

> On Sep 19, 2023, at 8:15 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Scribit Matteos:
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>>>> "Great project, Abram. I've built a map of part of the Columbus District, albeit in Google Maps 'my maps. feature. Now I'm curious whether maps built in that feature will show up in my account on Google Earth, or if I'll need to export the kmz from one and import it into the other." <<<
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> Matteo de Colombo, Excellency --
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> I know not whereof ye speak, for I know now what "My Maps" be'eth ! Perhaps one of my sons, or grandsons, who "live in the present" can explain that to me.  Me? ... I am only some old clod who hoes turnips and still uses a Telegraph, you know.  Most of what little I know, I have learn't from my kids.
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> When the VGN Map project is finished, I shall put the file up on Mr. Googlemann's Drive, from whence ye can download it with a click. I have had no problem sharing Google Earth KMZ files this way in the past.
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> Do not expect a fine-tuned, glistening, show-room product when you get the file. The Google Earth software is indeed a gift to mankind, yet I am far from proficient with it, and my "maps" look bumbling and sophomoric. But something is better than nothing, ain't it ... ?
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> Tese things being said, I believe you will need to download from Google the freeware called Google Earth. It is a VERY powerful tool, allowing you to do measurements, take elevations, draw your own line or path maps, create a grade profile between two or more points, place notations, and color-code all these entries on the satellite imagery, and it will also calculate for you the square footage or acreage of any geometric figure you draw on the satellite imagery. You can also layer over top of the satellite imagery a portion of a USGS Topo, if you like.  Of course, if someone has already done all these things for you, all you have to do is open the file, scroll left/right, up/down on the screen, and enjoy the view.  And everything is in 3-D !
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> You will find that moving up from Google Maps to Google Earth is like moving up from a kiddie-car to a real automobile. And it is all free, which warms the cockles of this old Scotsman's heart.
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> Give me a few days to finish this thing up, and I shall post it.
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> BTW, Wiki has an article on Google Earth, and there are a number of YouTube videos on it.
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> Cheers from the Cumberland Valley, which is just the north end of the Great Shenandoah Valley.
> 
>                       -- abram burnett
> Knight-Commander of the Sublime Order of the Great Flying Turnip
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