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TopoN00b

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« on: September 10, 2007, 06:25:13 PM »
Hi everyone.

I'm really new at this but it seems I cannot download any aerial imagery here : N45.57111 W69.39444. I thought terra-US covered all states in their finest details....One of the reason why I chose Topofusion with batch download '<img'>

Are the imagery simply non-existent ?!

Please let me know

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« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2007, 06:40:26 PM »
Hi,

Central Maine, right?

If you switch to the Aerial 64M tileset and pan around you can see that most of the state is covered, but a few fingers, including the coordinates you specified, have missing maps.

95% of the country is covered by aerials, but that 5% can be pretty annoying sometimes.  Unfortunately there's not much we can do about it.

Sometimes they do update areas and add imagery, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

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« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2007, 07:03:44 PM »
Thanks for your fast reply.

Is there any way to have an aerial for this location (through some sort of paid membership or something) ?

Thanks

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« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2007, 12:45:48 AM »
Not directly through the program, but you could purchase aerial photos (individual, large scale ones) and use the "user calibrated maps" function to add the images to TopoFusion.

See:

http://www.topofusion.com/usermaps.php

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« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2007, 06:45:29 AM »
OK but (I realise this may not be the place to ask but you seem to know) where do I get such an imagery. Haven't been able to find out yet  '<img'>

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« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2007, 09:08:46 AM »
One place is the "other" Terraserver:

http://www.terraserver.com

They've got some high resolution aerials for sale (to download).

Another is http://www.topozone.com.

There are others, as well.  Have a google search or two.

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« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2007, 10:01:29 AM »
I pretty much have the same results than with Topofusion. I guess those images just don't exist !

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« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2007, 03:42:41 PM »
That's odd.  How about google earth?  If you need to get an image in, you could always do a screen grab to .jpeg, then import that to TopoFusion as a user map.

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« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2007, 04:15:18 PM »
Same thing on google earth. There's simply no imagery available to the level of details I want for this particular area (while there is for the rest of the state). That's why I concluded it didn't exist. But maybe I'm wrong  ':p'