Support for users' Geotiffs

[Jon Sundquist]

I would have thought this has come before, but a quick search doesn't show anything, but...

It is great that version 3.0 allows for user-supplied maps.  But they have to be user-calibrated, which works only to a certain extent.

It would be great if TF could use geotiffs (even if they had to be a specific projection) and then skip the user calibration.

I've got a ton of custom geotiffs (and create more as I need them ;-) and they are more useful than older aerial photos.  I've done this recently with Google Earth, where there are tools to create tiled/multiresolution user map overlays which are especially important as the aerials (actually satellites) that GE uses for my area are terrible.

For example, and since I know you folks are Mountain Bikers, here is a (map in progress) grand overview of our MTB stomping grounds in Western New York (Requires GE 4.0):

http://www.wnymba.org/static/maps/ny-pa/ny-pa-5.kml

I would love to be able to load maps like this into TF, and have the georeferencing done automatically from the geotiff tags or world file.  I realize tiling would be tough, but I could do that manually if needed.

[Krein]

Agreed Jon, we hope to support geotiff so we can skip the calibration part.  It's just a matter of incorporating the libraries to read tifs.

Thanks for chiming in with the request.  Gets me thinking about it.

While on the subject of importing user supplied maps, it would be an astronomically wonderful thing if I could import NOS/GEO files without having to convert them to JPG or something else and then re-calibrate them

[Larry]

Quote (Jon Sundquist @ Feb. 20 2007,12:46)

For example, and since I know you folks are Mountain Bikers, here is a (map in progress) grand overview of our MTB stomping grounds in Western New York (Requires GE 4.0): http://www.wnymba.org/static/maps/ny-pa/ny-pa-5.kml

Jon, great stuff!

How hard is to to make kml files like the one you posted? Do you have a link to instructions and the necessary tools to make these topographic overlays for GE?

Or maybe you could suddenly take a huge interest in the Washington Cascades.  '>

Larry