This might come in handy for birding forays.
Jan
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From: va-richmond-general-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:va-richmond-general-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert
McLemore
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 9:58 PM
To: Richmond Birders
Subject: [va-richmond-general] Virginia Birding Trail
I have been reading a lot of posts about folks looking for sites to view
birds or inquiring about where people have visited. As a gift to everyone
and as an aid to the Virginia Bird Trail, I have made a KMZ of the sites for
Google Earth.
If you don't know, Google Earth is a free satellite mapping software. In
order to use this, you will have to first download Google Earth. It works on
either a Mac or a PC. Go to...
http://earth.google..com ;<http://earth.google.com>
and download the software.
Once it is downloaded, go to the following link and save this file to your
hard drive somewhere.. I'm sure many of you fear infections. Valid fear, but
I didn't put any on it. If you look at this file, it is just a Google
version of a zipped XML file.
Once you have it on your hard-drive, open Google Earth. Go to the menu and
select "File - Add". Browse to where you saved this file. Select it and you
will have all the trail points.
Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trails v1.kmz
<http://www.2fastkids.com/2FastKids/Birds_files/Virginia%20Birding%20and%20W
ildlife%20Trails%20v1.kmz>
Note that this is not a for profit effort. In the spirit of public service I
have put it together for the VDGIF. Please support them by purchasing a hard
copy. They are nice and spiral bound. They used to be free but when they
were combined into one book, they started charging a nominal fee. You can
purchase a copy at:
https://www3.dgif.virginia.gov/estore/proddetail.asp?prod=VW226
If you have any trouble with Google Earth, contact Google. If you can't
download the KMZ, e-mail me and I'll give send you a copy.
Note, a handful of the sites could not be confirmed. They were generally
forest trails with minimal information from a Google search. If I couldn't
find the exact spot, I put in a cautionary notice into the comments. I'll
upload a new file each time I have corrections. Consider this one version
1.0.
Enjoy (and support the VDGIF for this awesome program).
Cheers,
Robert McLemore
