New Game: Find the Pot Grow

[Burnin' oil]

Using Google satellite, I look for pot grows in my neck of the woods. Fairly easy to find, once you know what to look for: small plots surrounded by solid fencing or walls with somewhat irregular rows of plants, usually behind crappy rural homes.

For example: 7693 Sycamore Street, Delhi, California, United States

Or for a couple good-sized plots: 15599 Oak Street, Delhi, California, United States

Pot growers are usually left alone because of the stupid medicinal pot laws, but most of these growers are Mexican gang bangers - bad dudes.

[livi]

Ganja-watch inc.

[Burnin' oil]

On the Oak Street address, move to the right (east) a few hundred yards to a big grow north of the street.

[livi]

You planning a raid, sir?

[Burnin' oil]

Just keeping an eye on the competition.

[pwd72s]

You can bet enforcement folks use google earth as well...

[livi]

..as well as Facebook and perhaps Pelican Parts..

[HardDrive]

Around here, most of the grows are indoors. Growers find a foreclosed house, turn the power back on and set up a grow in the basement.

[KevinP73]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

Around here, most of the grows are indoors. Growers find a foreclosed house, turn the power back on and set up a grow in the basement.

Great idea, Thanks.

[masraum]

So are you talking about



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[masraum]

Google Earth is used for all sort of stuff.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8179584/Thieves-use-Google-Earth-to-steal-lead-from-churches.html

[craigster59]

Not a lot of money to be made in landscaping in your neck of the woods eh?

[Burnin' oil]

Steve,

How do you get the screenshots?

[Burnin' oil]

Originally Posted by craigster59

Not a lot of money to be made in landscaping in your neck of the woods eh?

Not with our natural beauty - no need.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by NotaBRG

He probably used snagit

Which is probably the best way, but I don't have it on my work PC.

If you want to take a screen shot of just the application that is currently active (instead of your whole desktop) you press -. To trim it down (assuming you aren't using Vista or Win 7), I paste the screen cap into paint. Then I select the portion of the cap that I want, click "new" and through out the old, then paste and save as an image. It sounds like a lot more work than it actually is.

If you have Vista, then you can just "crop" while in paint.

If you have Win 7, then there is something like Snagit built into the OS.

There was an interesting thread on here several years back, I think mostly by Cali based guys that had lots of examples of vacant/abandoned homes being used as fairly high tech grow facilities. I believe someone had posted a link to a news article on one and then a few other folks posted anecdotes or other articles.

[red-beard]

I did not know about the "snipping" tool in Win 7. Thanks for the tip.

[herr_oberst]

How often does google earth update the images?

[70SATMan]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

How often does google earth update the images?

Let's put it this way. The image of my house was last updated in 2009 from the 2006 image.

They don't even update them ALL on a yearly basis so, law enforcement actually using them as a monitoring tool is pretty much tin foil hat stuff.

If they need Sat imagery, they have the resources to get accurate UP TO DATE info.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

How often does google earth update the images?

Every once in a while, but I am pretty sure that the overhead view of my house is since Feb of this year.

The thing is, I don't think it's on any particular schedule, and I don't think they update everything at the same time.

[schamp]

My blueberry field (8 acres) looks a lot like that. No one has been around to inquire. I do get some interesting helicopters from Ft. Benning.