Rock Jock
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You might look into BackCountry Navigator. You can use it on laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc. Drop comment annotated waypoints that you can retrieve and review. You can transfer the data points to Google Earth Pro to examine the sites in time in various seasons and imagery resolutions. Useful for hiking, orienteering, geocaching, hunting, fishing, etc.. You can also have selectively timed gathering of waypoints to establish a "track" (a trail composed of linked waypoints). On your phone you can display "Where am I, how did I get here and where do I have to head to get to there?". I'm still learning how to use it. It has associated national and international downloadable base maps and imagery to put things into context.
If you want to invest some time in learning about "smart maps," I suggest that ARCGis is great and possibly even a career if you really get into map making and GIS (Geographic Information System). I loved being a user. I was never a guru, but it was definitely fun (GIS wasn't my career). I made an ARCGis layer for a State natural resources agency that is still in use about 12 years later! This is the GIS that most State, County, Municipal and Federal agencies use to manage their geographic data (Anything that is associated with a geographic point, line or area.). It is made by ESRI and they have some free online instruction courses occasionally if you want to get your feet wet or simply inform yourself. If you ever wanted to "rubbersheet" or "snap" an image or drawing to another mapped geographic area or image for overlay, this will do it. There is a huge and growing amount of data available online from many sources that can be processed in GIS. Learn how to "add" and/or "subtract" maps? All those ancient treasure maps? Or maybe you just want to make a treasure map.
If you want to invest some time in learning about "smart maps," I suggest that ARCGis is great and possibly even a career if you really get into map making and GIS (Geographic Information System). I loved being a user. I was never a guru, but it was definitely fun (GIS wasn't my career). I made an ARCGis layer for a State natural resources agency that is still in use about 12 years later! This is the GIS that most State, County, Municipal and Federal agencies use to manage their geographic data (Anything that is associated with a geographic point, line or area.). It is made by ESRI and they have some free online instruction courses occasionally if you want to get your feet wet or simply inform yourself. If you ever wanted to "rubbersheet" or "snap" an image or drawing to another mapped geographic area or image for overlay, this will do it. There is a huge and growing amount of data available online from many sources that can be processed in GIS. Learn how to "add" and/or "subtract" maps? All those ancient treasure maps? Or maybe you just want to make a treasure map.
