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2d trace from google earth

Anonymous
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Hi Guys,

Apologies if this is a noob question but I've had no luck searching for exactly how to do this.

Basically I have a survey plan that is not geolocated. I want to lay google earth imagery over the top and trace it to add details.

The problem is when I import the google earth imagery to archicad, I can't get the location and scale quite right as I don't know the exact lat/longs of the survey plan.

Any ideas how to accomplish this?

Regards,

Jon
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rgarand
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You will need to have something to "align" to which is on both your survey and the google imagery. I have found that even when I have the correct lat./long. it is still quite hard to get a perfect alignment.
Robert J. Garand
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