Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

Google Maps Terrain View Reveals Hidden Slopes & Site Secrets! #shorts

11 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this short dialogue, Tommy Dobczyk and a co‑speaker explore Google Maps' terrain layer to locate a subtle slope on a hillside. They discover that the highlighted area corresponds to a large decomposing granite formation, part of an alluvial zone where lots are mined. Tommy explains that this insight lets them plan to cut out the material, use free estimation tools to size the work, and conduct a site survey by shooting a level, effectively turning a simple map view into a practical field‑work roadmap.

Google doesn't do that? Isn't that what terrain is? There we go. Maybe terrain will do it.
Terrain usually shows topography, but I think I gotta zoom out a little bit for it.
Oh, it shows, it shows like big mountains, not the little slope.
It just shows—
you can see that it's on a mountain slope right there. When you zoom out like that, it shows where that rock is. Cause that's just a big, it's actually a decomposing granite rock. And so that gets, it's called an alluvial. Alluvial side of that hill is the side that those lots are mined into. So I have to go in and cut that out and Using free estimates, we can figure out how to do that pretty easy.
Okay.
And then we could probably even create a survey too. So we just have to go out and shoot a, shoot a level out there.