Mapping - My start.

[Pakanohida]

I couldn't sleep last night, woke up at 2:22am to see the sky lit up by passing thunderstorms to the north. Wind gusts are around 65mph (over 100Kph).

Anyway, I worked from a variety of sources on the internet, I have a master file in layers for editing, and here is my start. I have notes from observing this last year I still need to add, not to mention buildings better and so on. The south border of my property is an old logging road which should be added. There is also a forest to the south making my light difficult at best.

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Next go around will show my zones, and more. Each go around will be more accurate.

[sun burn]

Hi Pakanohida.

Is this Oregan, USA?

I don't know if its of much concern to you but the pink lines don't show up very well on the image. A scale might be a good idea and also a legend. Just to make it more meaningful to other viewers/readers.

[purecajn]

Try google maps for a clearer view of the area

[Pakanohida]

Hi Pakanohida.

Is this Oregan, USA?

I don't know if its of much concern to you but the pink lines don't show up very well on the image. A scale might be a good idea and also a legend. Just to make it more meaningful to other viewers/readers.

You are 100% correct on every account. It is Oregon, USA, Your right about the pink lines, and the scale would of made sense. LOL Well, like I said, it is a work in progress. Round 2 of it coming soon.


For the record, I am zone 9b, north facing slope so sunlight is from the south, opposite of you Sun burn. However, because of my latitude it makes for very interesting tracking of the sunlight.

[Pakanohida]

Try google maps for a clearer view of the area

LOL, this is google maps + elevation maps.

[Pakanohida]

Well, I am out there today checking the property lines and making notes. I will admit I am a bit bewildered with my property lines vs reality. The county I am in uses GPS coordinates for property lines, however, to my south is a road that is my border also. However, I am in strong belief that the property line goes through the road and into property to my south. This is making it difficult for my mapping & very confusing.

[sun burn]

Why don't you go and talk to the lands department or whatever authority you have there.

We don't use the zone system here in oz. I think its a thing particular to USA. What's your latitude.

We generally talk in terms of tropical, sub tropical, temperate, but locating it on the coast or inland also counts. I know florida is 11. I think i must be about 12

[eco4560]

How do you get across the highway? Is it raised and you can get under?

[Pakanohida]

How do you get across the highway? Is it raised and you can get under?

Actually, that is part of the lowest part of the property. The highway is below, and you drive along it, eventually you come to a road, make a left, and then another left uphill to my property. Hmm, just writing that out gave me pause for a huge micro / macro climate adjuster for the property. I will go take a photo to explain.

[Pakanohida]

This is a view from the house backdoor out. From the place of the photo it drops about 20' right off the back door, there is room to play here. However, it then drops again & we have been unable to get through the growth down there to find the top of the 20 to 40' cliff at roadside.

What I find amazing here is that this areas works very much like the San Francisco Bay area in California. There, as morning light comes in, the fog burns and causes air currents coming from the entire central valley of California to pass through the area near the Golden Gate bridge (like lungs exhaling) and then by around 1pm it is done. Between around 3 & 4pm the reverse starts. People can literally see a wall of fog form outside the Golden Gate bridge, and then it will works its way through to the rest of the bay area, and then slowly start to work its way back into the Central Valley.

Here, something similar but not as dynamic is at work. Fog is around nearly most mornings all winter & spring. And slowly burns out to my north, and to my east in the mornings, which happen to be the areas with the most flooding during the winter.

Here's the photo.

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