“Using Technology to Map and Care for Your Woodlands” resources available from the A DAY in the WOODS program on April 8, 2022

These are the recordings from “Using Technology to Map and Care for Your Woodlands”  A DAY in the WOODS program on 4-8-22.  Unfortunately, the audio quality is not great.  See bottom half of this post for supplemental information (power point slides and instructions) and more detailed recordings from 10/9/2020.

My Land Plan and Google Earth (Dave Apsley, OSU Extension; 23:32 min)

 

Adding a Soil Series Layer to Google Earth PRO

Note:  One of our partcipantes shared this link which provides a soils layer for Google Earth: https://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/soil_web/kml/SoilWeb.kmz

Just click on the link and a SoilWeb  KMZ file will download.  Click on it and it will open in Google Earth Pro if you have it loaded on your comptuer.  It will show up as a folder in your Temporary Places folder as SoilWeb and can turned on and off by checking and unchecking the box next to it.   When it is checked the Soil Series info will show up when you zoom into one of your places.

 

 

Web Soil Survey (Stephanie Downs, ODNR-Division of Forestry; 32:10 min)

ONX Hunt; Pat Migliozzi (ODNR-Divison of Forestry) and George Hulbert (USFS-Northern Research Station; 17:21 min)

Using AVENZA phone app (Stephanie Downs, ODNR-Division of Forestry; 13:14 min)

 

 

The resources below delve even deeper into several of the mapping and GPS programs that were explored on October 9, 2020.

Mapping you woodland focuses on tools that you can use to locate boundaries and other land features, and to create digital maps from location data using free GPS (Global Positioning System) phone applications and online mapping tools.

Recording of October 9 Virtual DAY in the WOODS program including (79 min):

  • Using Ohio county auditor web resources – Eric Hayes, Athens Soil and Water Conservation District

  • Collecting location information from your woodland using AVENZA maps – Stephanie Downs,  Ohio Department of Natural Resources-Division of Forestry

  • Overview of online mapping tools including My Land Plan, Google Earth Pro and other free or low cost mapping tools – Dave Apsley, Ohio State University Extension, Stephanie Downs,  Ohio Department of Natural Resources-Division of Forestry, and Eric Hayes, Athens Soil and Water Conservation District

How to use My Land Plan to map and manage your woodland Resources

Dave Apsley, Ohio State University Extension

Mapping- Using My Land Plan- powerpoint slides

PowerPoint presentation on My Land Plan (13 min):

Demonstration on how to use My Land Plan (14 min):

Creating interactive maps using Google Earth Pro

Dave Apsley, Ohio State University Extension, and Eric Hayes, Athens Soil and Water Conservation District (30 minutes)

Mapping – How to use Google Earth Pro- powerpoint slides

PowerPoint presentation on Google Earth pro (13 min):

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