Schuetz Family

For some time, I’ve wanted to be able to build my own maps showing cache locations. One of the biggest obstacles was finding a good source of map information. There are plenty of online map sources, but many of them are very old (like the USGS Topographic maps), or really aren’t very pleasing to look at (Mapquest, etc.)Recently, however, Google opened up their beta mapping service (at maps.google.com. It’s fast, it’s easy, it has terrific-looking maps, and it’s actually very easy to grab individual map images directly from Google. Read more…