{"id":152,"date":"2007-11-20T21:13:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T04:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2007-11-20T21:13:44","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T04:13:44","slug":"google-earthing-my-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Google Earth&#039;ing my land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/goggled.jpg\" title=\"goggled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/goggled.jpg\" alt=\"goggled.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been waiting for something like two years for Google Earth to get high-resolution images of Stokes County. Finally they do!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a Google Earth view of my land. The property line is the white triangle in the lower left foreground. That&#8217;s Hanging Rock State Park looming high in the background. The elevation of the park is exaggerated a bit by Google Earth (the park&#8217;s actual altitude is over 3,000 feet, compared with 910 feet for the highest part of my land).<\/p>\n<p>For scale, my road frontage along that gravel road is 763 feet. As you can see, I&#8217;m on the south-facing side of a little valley. A small stream runs across my property and intersects with another small stream at the lower end. The conjoined streams then run to the Dan River about 1.5 miles farther down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been waiting for something like two years for Google Earth to get high-resolution images of Stokes County. Finally they do! Here&#8217;s a Google Earth view of my land. The property line is the white triangle in the lower left foreground. That&#8217;s Hanging Rock State Park looming high in the background. The elevation of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Earth&#039;ing my land&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stokes-county","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}