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 Post subject: Image overlays in Google Earth
PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:27 am 
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Anybody ever do these?

I've used this before on a small scale (over laying a development master plan map over undeveloped land to show where the roads and buildings will, etc...), but Iw as trying to do it for a map of the US, and I ran into a distortion problem.

You see, google earth assumes that the image you are overlaying has the longitudinal lines as straight lines east to west, when the earth of course is curved, more so as you approach the poles. So google earth automatically curves your image to wrap around the earth, which would be nice, except that my image already has the map curved to follow the longitudinals, so when I drop it into the program, the curve is doubled, and I can't get it to fit.

I can't seem to figure any way to distort my image in order to correct for this. Anyone know how to do this?

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 Post subject: Re: Image overlays in Google Earth
PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:29 am 
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Anyway, this is the image if anyone wants to play with it.



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 Post subject: Re: Image overlays in Google Earth
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This is about as close as I could get using gIMP.
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 Post subject: Re: Image overlays in Google Earth
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$úñ_DëV|L wrote:
This is about as close as I could get using gIMP.
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Crazy admins and their attachments.

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 Post subject: Re: Image overlays in Google Earth
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thanks, you just made my vote useless.
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 Post subject: Re: Image overlays in Google Earth
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