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bigfoot search helpfull hint I am from Mission, British Columbia where I noticed one of your bigfoot posts purely by chance. I noticed you asked for ways to make the information more clear and accessible. Put the word bigfoot, or sasquatch as i know it, in your placemark titles. I dont believe numbers draw enough attention. Anyway just a thought. Good luck with your project.

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Thanks for the feedback. I understand and agree with your point. When these placemarks are viewed within the community layer it is not at all clear what they refer to, so I have already considered adding more info to the placemark names to address this.

But here is the other side of the coin. While I appreciate that the moderators have included this project in the community layers I really did not create this file in order for it to be displayed in a layer with all sorts of other attractions. Rather the idea is to download the ,kmz file and use it on a stand alone basis. When using the data this way adding more information to the names becomes superfluous and only increases the screen clutter, which is bad enough already with over 4,000 placemarks. So unless someone can come up with another idea I like better, I plan to leave the names as they are now even though it leaves things unclear in the community layer.

Since your are from BC, I'll call your attention to the web site of the Western Canadian Sasquatch Research Organization . This is one of several groups whose data I have not yet found time to include in my project. Any volunteers?

Edited by Mangani (11/07/06 12:26 PM)

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Very interesting idea - plotting the location of Bigfoot sightings. I would recommend adding GPS co-ordinates wherever possible. Using GPS co-ordinates makes the data very transferable between map applications - contour maps, road maps, etc.

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I lived on the Middle Fork on (mislabeled) Middle Fork Lane ( two roads up from the turnoff. We had bear, deer, wolves, mountain lions, but I never saw a Sasquatch and never heard of anyone else in the area having seen one, including my neighbor, who was a 27year resident.

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Hi, I was looking on google earth and found one of your posts for a big foot siting in Oroville, Ca right by the lake. When I clicked on the post however, the description of the siting was an event in Forest Ranch, which is at least 25 miles to the north. Thought you might want to know. The posting was listed as 1985-04Spr. And the description was listed as bfro report #1548.

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