Large terrain photo help

solo

You are right, I edited my post

solo

Every image gets a watermak so the whole terrain gets coved in Google watermarks.

pilou

Some advices by DareDevil in French but...
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=41070&p=363944

Aureus

@solo said:

Every image gets a watermak so the whole terrain gets coved in Google watermarks.

Not only that but you also end up with a silly outline. If you need to crop it so that you get a normal rectangular outline you can try with exploding images and drawing a rectangle over their flat surfaces. Then you have to delete unwanted area. Or if you deal with 3-d images you need to employ intersecting method with an adequate cube.

I'm afraid watermarks are unavoidable in any case. That's Google Earth's policy: on every image you download you get some stuff so that everybody knows it's from Google Earth.

Obviously, this can be edited in some editing software outside Sketchup.

dale

There is some other satellite imagery out there, and depending on where you are sometimes it's better than Google Earth. Maybe give Flash Earth a try. http://www.flashearth.com/ I don't remember them watermarking either.

Chris Fullmer

There are plenty of sites that offer non-watermarked imagery and topo. You just have to learn how to navigate their websites and specify what area you need - not always very easy to do! Its not terribly expensive, but you might need someone with GIS experience to help you put it into a 3d model?

mitcorb

I input the location you gave into GE. It was interesting to note that a street address label appears a couple of hundred feet west of the apparent location, right at the edge of a grove. Did you see that, or do I need to adjust something? Also, the resolution of that area seems less than you may desire.
What about USGS data?

solo

I have the terrain, I got the USGA info and used civil3D to generate the terrain as needed but do not have a good aerial photo to overlay, however I found Bing maps a better quality and will stitch a map from them....tsk,tsk Google! Bing has better maps.

mitcorb

Yeah, but you can't measure anything- even for approximations- or I haven't found a way.

wind-borne

If you want to stitch together some ~4000x3000 images from 2007 pm me with email address and area you want and I'll send via a Transfer Big Files link.

jpeg's about 3-4 MB
png's about 15-20 MB
tiff's wanna be about 38MB but my connection times out before finishing

A couple reduced images
Those property lines are deletable and a dimensioned line can be added to images to resize in SU if needed.

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