Methods for dowsing digitized topo maps?

Question

A friend of mine recently took several thousand pictures of an area in the Gila Wilderness from a helicopter. In the process of examining the photos he found two aircraft crash sites that bore the appearance of never having been found.

He didn't have a GPS connected to his camera and the crashes weren't what he was searching for, so he asked me to track down what I can about them, knowing only the general location they must be in because of the sequence of photos, shadows, terrain, and types of vegitation in the photos.

In trying to locate the two sites I'm using Terrain Navigator on 7.5 minute USGS topos. The only method I've found thus far for dowsing it relies entirely on cursor position for trying to narrow things down.

The distance tool and the route tool are both too cumbersome and won't allow straight-edge triangulation as you'd use for paper maps.

Have any of you tried digitized map dowsing?

Have you found a better method than the cursor location method?

Answer 1

Can I see the map?  Where on Goggle could I even begin to see what I just saw in my head from reading your question?  As for the Mirror question and the other weird effects today.  I am cut short on the question side..howeven..where did you say there was an old air-craft downed?  I have used dowsing to locate things on maps...but maps are very unreliable except from satellite.  Gila?  Arizona?  I would like to atleast try.  Tell me where the basic location is?