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    Geo-location Imagery & Terrain

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    • B Offline
      brokenkeys
      last edited by

      I'm surprised this hasn't been brought up before but I can't find anything. So here goes...

      Sketchup's new geo-location imagery and topography is of such a low quality that it is essentially unusable now. The first image below is from an old model using 2015 Pro. The second image is the same location in 2017 Pro.

      It's zoomed in as far as it can and I don't see any other options in the geo-location menu. Are there other setting somewhere or another way to import better quality images and topo info?

      2015 pro.jpg
      2017 pro.jpg

      Thanks in advance

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        sketch3d.de
        last edited by

        https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15%26amp;t=60314

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          valerostudio
          last edited by

          There are other discussions about this. It's complete crap - email Trimble and voice your concerns.

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            brokenkeys
            last edited by

            Thanks for the link. Guess I wasn't using the right search terms.

            Crap indeed. I tried the revit importer-to-revit-to-sketchup work around and it bloated my model from 11mb to 76mb. Since I didn't have time to experiment with other options I had power through it.

            I told the higher-ups until I find another route, models requiring heavy terrain work will either have poor accuracy or will require a topo survey. Since topo's are rarely handed out with requests for proposals it looks like we're going with poor accuracy.

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