Importing GIS Maps

[htr_anderson]

What is the easiest way to import an areal photo into civil 3d to overlay onto a cad drawing

[jefflambert9091]

"Mapiinsert"  if you have the world file.

[htr_anderson]

what if I just had a jpeg?

[MATRIX3DSURVEYS]

Use Raster Design and the Rubber Sheet command to collate the image. A uniform grid of points works the best. Otherwise the image will be distorted.

The image can them be saved with a World File.

Jim

Matrix3DSurveys

[johngordon6189]

If the image is not geo-referenced - Old school Autocad.... insert image, scale move and rotate. just set the image display order to the back and line it up the best you can.

[htr_anderson]

Geomap worked great for the computer, but I need to be able to print it with the CAD linework and symbology, as well as the map image underneath which does not plot with the linework. How can I get both?

[antoniovinci]

If you have only a simple JPG (not a georeferenced JPEG2000), you may place it according 2 points of known coordinates, thru the _ALIGN command.

Finally you make the worldfile by means of this free tool: http://www.cadstudio.cz/georefimg

[htr_anderson]

It will be georeferenced, I'm just waiting to get it from another department...There is no way to plot with the geomap background?

[neilyj666]

If you are using 2015 then aerial imagery is available OOTB and it can be plotted from a layout. It is not officially plottable in any earlier release.