As of right now, I am not sure there is a very good solution. I spoke with Bryce directly and he told me, "It seems that something is going on with how terrain data is served and how the resolution of the grid is determined. We're going to try to make some improvements but I don't know when you'll see them." Thats the best they can offer right now.

@mozzie said: Thanks Kaas. That was a big help and I'm back in operation. So I was mistaken. Juju - I had already read that post, but it covered mostly 3D Warehouse. For me, losing GE imagery is less easily worked around. So. sorry if I wasted your time - occasionally we all need a little redirection. FWIW, the link Juju gave has the link Kaas gave.

this has been covered before, I wish the admins would make a sticky of it... http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15%26amp;t=62489 The main reason, as I understand it, for this is because Trimble acquired Sketchup from Google, part of the deal was support from Google for a limited time for features introduced under their ownership. Since Google Earth is not a Trimble product further development and linking to the brand doesn't work. That period has passed and, as such, so is the linked functionality. Have you tried Google Earth Pro (it's free now, by the way) to see if you can get the info you normally imported automatically? Hopefully you don't use MS XP anymore, MS stopped support for it, that doesn't mean that MS is a bad company, just that it is a legacy software that doesn't warrant support any longer.

That, and an rbz are the next stage. I haven't because l) Lack of skills - hopefully fixable. 2) It would be best if I could include the scene exporter (not mine in any way, so I would prefer to have Author's permission)

Seems to have gone away for me ... my gratitude to the admins. I appreciate the SUcation site and community and understand that you need to generate advertising revenue (and think that your approach is most always pretty sound). So, if it just came up on the initial login or some such, that would be OK. But it came up at every page refresh, or page change and occupied the center of the screen, requiring a finger tap each time.

It's the old Style Menu issue (revisited after upgrade). Easily, if not obviously, fixed and for the record; Window -> Styles -> Edit [tab]-> Match Photo sliders (may need to scroll down) -> Foreground Photo (tick box on). For some reason, I'm not wired to see Geolocations terrain display issues as Style problems!

Thanks for the update, will give it another try.

I've now got it. Thanks TIG (and additional gratitude/ kudos for you ruby plugins and contributions). Thanks also J Bacus, Gaieus. For some reason, it's been a bit af a learning curve - I'm probably still dumb, but less ignorant thanks to you all and the forum! TIG, the process you describe was pretty much the way I went about my first attempt. The breakthrough came when I read John Bacus' comment aand realised that by zooming in close I could improve the image quality, and that the new "Add more imagery" system allows me to quilt together a terrain. I work mostly with golf holes and imagery needs to be long and thin, so with a single image in SU7, the orientation was important. In SU8 this is no longer true. BTW Gaieus, thanks for your suggestion for SU7, I had tried it but had more reliable results for the GTS method. But hopefully, its one for the history books.

Too slow! http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=13321 Someones imported the linework in to SU on that thread, its worth a look.

Thank you Didier. Yes. That is it exactly. I have a series of XYZ points from an arbitrary "origin" 000. I want to overlay this on a Google Earth terrain, but the centre of the terrain (global origin) is not where I want to have my points origin. Currently, I do a translation in Excel before importing, but this seemed like an interesting way to get into SU Ruby, and save myself some double handling!

Thanks Jeff, I should really get ,ore into LO soon (though I definitely like modelling better than presenting...)