Hey guys, Scott Reekers here, with Eastman's.
I worked with the Basemap Application for this entire trip,
and I have to say I am impressed.
Now, what is it about this application that impressed me?
Well let's start digging into some of the cool features that make it what it is.
The feature that I particularly enjoyed,
I can count on one hand the number of people that I truly trust with mule deer' locations.
Call me crazy, but when you hunt in general areas all the time,
it's it's a tough situation.
So you're pretty protective of what you're doing.
Well the coolest part about Basemap,
is that I was able to share with Brandon locations of several deer that I found,
and so now we both have a record and we can both do some more E-Scouting in Basemap.
And I found the big mule deer.
Well one of the nicest parts of what I'm able to do with that big mule deer
so I can put a picture exactly where I saw him.
so you can see that I've got a picture saved with his location.
And there's also my pin marker in green, which is an actual marker for a deer.
So I can track my locations on where I have scouted all these, very easy.
I labeled it 4 X 4, so I'd close this and you can see that it's gone.
But another piece, that I have, is you can label it as private for sharing.
So for instance, if I want to share my camp location,
you can see where that is at, and you can see that I can make this private,
so only I can see these locations.
And the one of the best parts is,
you have different levels of what you can share.
So you can take a look at this, add this plus,
add a photo,
choose from library.
You guys can see all of my pictures.
So if I want to put this picture of a camp location,
stick it right there.
Add a marker.
Marker Name: Camp Picture
Done
and Log
Select an activity.
Look at all the different activities you can label on there.
So you can sort these and make it very easy to look at what you're doing.
Then I'm going to adjust my privacy to private, so no one else inside this, can see.
But here's the next cool part, this is the social media feature that I was talking about.
So I can see different pieces of whatever is made public.
Whoever wants you to be able to see different things that they're doing and
it's a really cool feature to be able to share all that with your friends.
Another feature that I really, really, really enjoyed on this trip was tracking.
And I've not been a guy who's big on tracking with a GPS
and tracking all your steps and things like that.
and it has nothing to do with, that I didn't like that feature or anything,
it's just sometimes its demoralizing
to realize how far or how far you did not go;
and so this time I did and it was incredibly accurate.
I started out up here on the top of the map.
And you can see where I walked and collected some of my gear.
then came back down to my camp.
I measured it again with several other mapping tools including, Google Earth;
how you can track your line and I was very impressed.
One of the other features that you can add, is the offline map.
And so one of the coolest things, as an update that they've just done,
that allows you to use an offline map,
get a new map.
So let's just say a Pro. So I've got the custom maps.
Well there is no file size limit here.
You can get this as detailed as you want.
So I'm looking at this unit inside Colorado right now.
Go right here,
get that as detailed or as close as you want,
and download.
I have used this very extensively in about eight days of mule deer scouting,
and I can say that it works incredibly well.
All right, so here I am at a water pumping location.
I'm going to mark this location on my map because this is a seep.
This is a better water source than what I used last night.
I actually plugged up my filter a little bit.
I had to clean her up.
it's also a whole heck of a lot closer to camp.
If I had done a little research, I would have found this seep last night.
As I was going to my known location,
I wouldn't have bumped the bucks that I did.
I've got a marker in there that's blue
Thats what I'm gonna use.
My last known water source, that's closest to my other camp.
All features from a recent scouting trip.
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You can download the app through the App Store.
You can pay monthly or you can pay for one lump sum and be done with it.
And then you have it for an entire year.
So this is a really cool tool that you can work with.
You can see, you can download all your units.
You can share this with who you want.
You can look at pictures, of just say, hikers.
If they're in or say in a region that you've never been to.
You can see their pictures from an area.
So there's all sorts of features and things that you can do to be able
to really help your hunting and make your hunting better.
As you can see all the hunting information across the entire United States.
Season dates, research data
See all the different tag types and season dates that are there.
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