First of all you must become a guru at wind and direction. When the wind "blows towards the northeast" you have a SW wind. This is about the most common wind in my area. The other, "(rarely)... blowing towards the south/southwest" is a NNE wind and is the rarest wind for my area.

What I'm getting at, is when you once find a great location for a stand, make note of what wind direction it will be good for.Then try to find locations for the rest of the wind directions. If you call your stands by what wind direction that they're good for, you'll know immediatly which stands you can hunt when you check the wind. You know, its a NW wind today, I'll hunt my NW stand.

As for the maps, I'd start by observing from each end of the ridge that is on your property and from out in the fields in the evenings. You want to find where the does bed as well as the bucks. Then you play chess from there. I like to keep part of my properties as a sanctuary. A place where deer wil feel safe, then hunt the edges of it.

Good luck.