Letter Re: Retreat Locale Selection Mapping Tools

James Wesley Rawles April 25, 2012 April 25, 2012

Jim,
With some research, I’ve found a few mapping tools that are useful in selecting possible retreat locales:

Free GIS tool (overlay and merge different map layers onto one map)
Census mapping
National Atlas. Crime, precipitation, etc. Very nice but you can’t merge data.
An interesting Google Earth plug-in

I’d also like to mention an ongoing forum discussion.

Regards, – C.D.V.

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James Wesley, Rawles (JWR) is Founder and Senior Editor of SurvivalBlog, the original prepping /survival blog for when the Schumer Hits The Fan (SHTF). He began SurvivalBlog in 2005. It now reaches more than 320,000 unique visitors weekly.
JWR is a journalist, technical writer, and novelist. His survivalist novel Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse, is a modern classic that reached #3 on the New York Times bestsellers list. Two of his other novels have also been best New York Times bestsellers.
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