Large terrain photo help
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Every image gets a watermak so the whole terrain gets coved in Google watermarks.
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Some advices by DareDevil
in French but...
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=41070&p=363944 -
@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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Yeah, but you can't measure anything- even for approximations- or I haven't found a way.
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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 finishingA 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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@solo said:
...tsk,tsk Google! Bing has better maps.
Not everywhere. In my place,
Bing map really suckswhile Google is bearably average.Edit: it does not even suck that much. They must have updated it.
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