Aerials

[chreese22]

Is there someway to add aerials in your drawing and be able to plot with them? I know with the Bing maps, you can view but not print. Has anyone used the esri plug in?

[Murph_Map]

As of right now the only way is use Data Connect or map image insert (MAPIINSERT) with a saved imaged on your network, or using 3rd party add-ons Or WMS/WFS servers connections.

As for the ESRI add on, I have no idea what one you are referring to.

[parkr4st]

Many georeferenced aerial photos can be downloaded from state, county, national, town, city web sites.  These  as Murph states can be inserted and printing is not a problem because the photos are public domain.  You may have to do some searching and downloading and/or make a trip with a portable hard drive, but scavenging data is part of the fun of mapping - GIS :).

Where on earth are you looking for photos?

dave

[chreese22]

South Texas, matagorda county

[parkr4st]

a quick search on the web found for example.  http://www.tnris.org/get-data?quicktabs_2=1