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Offline MudSongs

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Calculating Forage Area with Google Maps
« on: March 22, 2022, 02:35:32 pm »
New beekeepers, and kids, might enjoy looking at a map and figuring out where their bees might be flying.  Here's a short video I slapped together that demonstrates how easy it is to do on Google Maps.



There's more info in the video description.  Cheers.
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Re: Calculating Forage Area with Google Maps
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2022, 02:47:00 pm »
Thanks for this, will definitely check it out after work.


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Re: Calculating Forage Area with Google Maps
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2022, 07:53:42 pm »
Thanks, Mudsongs. Nice work.

Good to see you posting again.
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Re: Calculating Forage Area with Google Maps
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2022, 07:49:21 am »
You did a fine job explaining.   :yes: Definitely a neat idea I hadn’t thought of before. Thanks again!
Keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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