plotting a geomap

[alexkonieczka]

I have some dwgs made with bing maps but it now say's service is discontinued.

I used geomap and the aerial comes in but it will not plot.

Is is possible to plot the aerial in the background through some process of proceedure?

thanks, alex

[Cadguru42]

No. Autodesk is either unwilling or unable to get licensing to allow the plotting of the aerials or any part of the geomap system.

[tcorey]

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@alex wrote:

Is is possible to plot the aerial in the background through some process of proceedure?

thanks, alex

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You can PrintScreen and make a png file. Here's a screeshot I made from a geomap and then inserted into a drawing. I added some (ugly) linework in red.

This can be printed.

[antoniovinci]

Another way: you could load the Bing map into Quantum Gis, save it as Geotiff, which you'll import back in Autocad (command _MAPIINSERT).

[alexkonieczka]

I will have to look into that. one problem is my project has 24x36 images of an oblique regional view of a county.

The sid files for the county are about 2 dozen and are 660mb each and trying to plot them locks up my machine.

I tried converting them to low res jpegs once and that did not pan out too well but maybe if I kept playing with the settings I can get it to work.  If I remember correctly, geotif's did not do well in oblique view but I will have to reinvestigate that or maybe there is another format option available. The other suggestion of a screen capture will not produce a good quality full size print but maybe i could try tiled screen captures.

thanks, alex

[neilyj666]

Although using the screenshot method raises possible copyright infringement issues...:)

[neilyj666]

....but wouldn't be necessary if you have Raster Design installed......allegedly...:)