Google My Maps (Week 4 Assignment)

 Google My Maps is a decent free tool for the aspiring birdwatcher or natural resource management student conducting their own projects for assignments. The pin feature is wonderful for marking locations from which to conduct a variety of surveys. As it provides the latitude and longitude of points, and the description and image adding feature are also excellent additions in this regard. Another benefit is the add polygon feature, which is useful for delineating survey habitats, and for a rough approximation of the area of your survey site. Downsides to this feature is the inability to zoom in and out while making a polygon and the sites tendency to snap to certain zoom distances which makes it difficult to fully view certain locations without cutting of portions of the area.