aerials Images Come in wrong

[DaveM]

All,

This question is purley based on my inexpeierince.

I have been using http://nationalmap.gov/viewer.html to download aerial images and then insert them into my drawing using mapiinsert. Usually they come in perfect, but sometimes they come in way off. In this case I downloaded image it came in way off. Then i used project base jump and in came in where it should, but the quality is not good enough for what i am trying to determine. so i downloaded an image from http://www.gis.iu.edu/downloadData/index.php

inserted it using mapiinsert. It came in once again way off, but i noticed it came in where the other image did. What am i missing. I do not fully understand how these images choose where they land. I understand there is a world file that gives them xy coordinates, but that is the end of my knowledge. Can someone help me fill in the gaps?

[rl_jackson · Accepted solution]

There's a bug that when you insert a image and have things in State Plane Feet, it still inserts in Meters, it's reading things wrong, the odd thing it is not consistant from State to State, or area to area for that matter.

See this thread for more information

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Map-3D/Civil-3D-2013-Map-2013-Image-Issue/m-p/3415105/highligh...

[DaveM]

Well that sucks.

Thanks for the reply.