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Submitted byAnonymouson04-17-201912:47 PM
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Under Review
Geolocation Map
Please, for the love of all that is right in the world, please bring back google map images for the geolocation map. Bing's maps are INCREDIBLY outdated, with poor resolution and are overall just horrible to work with. I'm actively researching other software to use because of this issue.
Well said! I just posted on this!! Currently working on a site and the Bing mapping is missing 4 buildings and has about 20 hectares of forest that isn't there! That makes the mapping at least 5 years old. What can I possibly use this for? One pointer which you might be aware of; if you do an area capture you can slightly improve the resolution. It might slow the drawing down a bit though if it's a large area.
Yeah Plex.earth is sweet. Just couldn't justify a licence for it at work. Considering the price of Plex.earth; it probably would cost Autodesk much to licence google maps.
While this is an issue I believe needs to be resolved, don't forget that in the meantime you can use IINSERT or MAPIINSERT to attach orthoimagery. If you have the corresponding world file [.jpw, .tfw, .sdw (if you have AutoCAD 2018 or newer to handle MrSID files), etc.], then you can have your imagery correctly geolocated.
@Cadguru42 in a way I suppose. From what I understand is that Bing (and Google) get there mapping from ESRI but generally reduce the size of their imagery. You can get higher quality images straight from ArcGIS online, however there was an issue with plotting the images when the ArcGIS for AutoCAD extension came out that ended up killing the plotted image quality. I think it may just have been system variable (RASTERPERCENT or RASTERDPI) but I haven't checked it out.
MrSid file support varies by the generation of the sid file and the version of AutoCAD. When I posted my initial comment, I was on C3D 2017 and was under the impression that 4th-generation MrSID support was being added in 2018. Now, I'm on C3D 2020, and I see that this is only partially true. The official position is that 4th-gen MrSID files still aren't supported; however, unlike older versions of C3D, you can at least insert the image - but it will come in tinted blue.
