Gold Update

Update!!!!!

This is my fastest update yet. Awesome.

Well I heard back from Rick from the gold maps website http://www.goldmapsonline.com/ almost immediately (a couple of hours after the fact) and although I did not get what I was expecting (The wording made it seem like I would get a real paper map) I did get the kmz files (Google earth files) for Utah without a problem. So although not what I was expecting, still pretty cool. I can look at all of the current and past gold claims in Utah and see who they are/were owned by. Although, when I questioned his term "real map" he seemed to disagree with me, stating that what he gave me was a "real map". Personally that's not a real map to me, but I make maps for a living (on my off hours from school), so whatever.

Gold?

I was notified of this rather interesting website that might be of some interest to people. It is a place where you can get the location of gold in the US. That's right GOLD!!!!.

http://www.goldmapsonline.com/

It was sent to my department at school and I figured I would spread the word. Here is what the creator says:

We basically make it possible to view the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's active and abandoned gold mining claims database in Google Earth as a gold map. The result is a very accurate near real-time view of America's gold deposits.

There is a free sample map available on the site but your students may also have a free copy of any statewide map we have for their personal use. They would need to contact us through the site to obtain the free map. No questions asked:).

There you go, a free statewide GOLD map. Who can pass this up? I can't. I'll let you know how this turns out.