Grand Tour Locations "How-to"

[UncleLumpy]

(01-17-2014 11:20 AM)StarWolve Wrote:  I took a little time to review the points in my area, and I think there's going to be a lot more false positives from these files than in previous years. The USGS updates their files regularly, and it looks like a lot of "communities" (read as: Suburbia Housing Developments with crazy HOA's) are showing up in the list... and most of them like to use a "Nature Name" (Briar CrEEk, Whispering WOOds, Bramble BrOOk, etc.) that has a double letter - usually to impart some natural feel to a completely jam packed development. (Can you tell I dislike housing developments?!) So I would definitely recommend a solid map reconnaissance before riding out for points unknown.

I cross the "Feature Name" column against the "Map Name" column and pull the matches out into a file. After doing that, I figure I have the "true locations" and, even if I've lost a few places, I still have more than enough to play with. Seemed to save a lot of time looking for places that really don't exist in terms of locations as we need them.

Lumpy