Who uses Ozi Explorer?

[Paul from Kiev]

Who uses Ozi Explorer for finding old interesting sites?

I only began doing this with Ozi. It's great. I am interested especially in saloons. People were drinking and loosing their coins.
But how do you find perspective sites in the US? What objects are more preferable? Share your ideas!

 

[I a thr]

I've not tried the Ozi Explorer but use Google Earth. It allows you to insert any old map that I scan to file as an overly and you can stretch, zoom, and rotate to fit section lines and roadways. Then by ghosting the overlay you can move the mouse pinpointer over the spot you may be wanting to locate and the coordinates are shown at the bottom of the google earth screen. I then manually input the coordinates into my GPS as a way point, I have a cheap Garmin Etrac, but works great. I can then set a radius for the way points with an alarm that will signal me as I walk within that way point radius. I have used it this way a few time but have found it to be only as accurate as the person who created the old map. Is interesting to mess with and gets you in the general area. I look for old nonexistent farm home sites, which are shown on the old maps that I overlay into modern day google aerial maps. There is plenty of old iron generally to deal with but no modern trash such as pull tab and clad coinage. I just like looking for the older coins and relics.
Bill

 

[Paul from Kiev]

You can say that again! At the same time I believe Ozi has more features and is more user friendly.