Hello,

Probably a simple question but I will ask it anyways. I am a civil engineer developing a model of a proposed gondola system that covers approximately 16 miles. To create the model I went into sketch up and created a snapshot from Google Earth of the beginning point, then I did the same for a point about halfway along its length, and finally at the termiation point (ski resort at the end of the gondola. I then went to each of the snapshot and created a circle, extruded it up to 50' so that it looked like a pole, and then finally drew a line between all three poles to roughly represent the gondola wires between poles. I then tried to publish it to Google Earth and when I did, the pole locations came into Google Earth in totally unexpected places.

I assume this has to do with the curvature of the Earth and how it is modeled in GE, versus sketch-up which is probably based on a planar coordinate system. Does anyone know how to create a model like I am describing above so that everything is imported into GE correctly?

Thanks for your help!

Scott