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NCNST through Fort Custer
Here is a map or aerial image (your
choice!) showing the current track of the North Country
National Scenic Trail through the Fort Custer National Cemetery and
the Fort Custer State Recreation Area in
Kalamazoo County.
In the map displayed here, the Trail
track is overlaid on a Google Maps road map of the area. You can change
the background to a topo map, a USGS aerial image, or a satellite image by
making your selection from the right-hand drop-down menu in the upper right corner of the map image.
Note regarding this Fort Custer
map:
● The trail track data displayed here should be taken as, at best,
approximate, and its accuracy varies depending on which background is
selected.
● The Google street map (our default here) is probably closest to
being accurate with our GPS tracks in relation to streets/roads and other land
features, followed by the U.S.G.S. topo, U.S.G.S. aerial, and
U.S.G.S. aerial + G.
● The Google satellite and Google hybrid backgrounds are not
centered accurately in relation to our GPS track data. In fact, if you
look closely at the Google hybrid background you can see that the roads
and streets in the satellite image do not line up correctly with those of the
Google street map.
You can tone down the background layer
to better visualize details on the ground by changing the percentage value
in the other drop-down menu right next to the background selector.
Scroll the image to the right (using
the bottom scroll bar) if necessary to activate the
background layer selection menu to the right of the map image.
By using the map tool in the upper
left corner you can also zoom in or out, and you can drag
the image to change the center point. Zooming in, then click 'n dragging
the map in whichever direction you want, makes it easier to make sense of the
marked waypoints, which in places are a bit bunched together otherwise.
For full screen map:
Click here for a
full screen version of this map. Click on a yellow diamond for
information about the related waypoint. To locate a waypoint on the
map from the list on the right, click on the yellow diamond in the list.
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