snomchfun Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 I've been struggling with geo-referencing my images ( sat images from google earth ) in google earth. I fiddled with stretching and squeezing and could get close but never a good fit. The key is when you open the image overlay box go to the tab Altitude and change "Clamped to ground" to "absolute". You still have to reference the image but it's very easy to make it perfect. Quote Link to comment
+Xantos10 Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 I think I need some tips on Custom Maps also. I have yet understood how to make these work on my Oregon and actually I have not figured out how they can be of any help to me. Quote Link to comment
snomchfun Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 I think I need some tips on Custom Maps also. I have yet understood how to make these work on my Oregon and actually I have not figured out how they can be of any help to me. I love em....it's nice to have actual satellite maps on the unit.....garmins "how to" 5 steps is a good explanation. ......or goto gpsfix's website Quote Link to comment
+zaphir Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 I've been struggling with geo-referencing my images ( sat images from google earth ) in google earth. I fiddled with stretching and squeezing and could get close but never a good fit. The key is when you open the image overlay box go to the tab Altitude and change "Clamped to ground" to "absolute". You still have to reference the image but it's very easy to make it perfect. Great tip...I will try it out this weekend. I too have STRUGGLED with getting a GE overlay to georef on the GE maps. Everytime I get part of the overlay just right...the other part goes all "wonky". I fix the wonky part and the one that I originally had lined up just right is off and wonky too. Felt like I was in the "Who's on First" skit from Abbott and Costello. Those green lines were driving me nuts. Quote Link to comment
+zaphir Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 I think I need some tips on Custom Maps also. I have yet understood how to make these work on my Oregon and actually I have not figured out how they can be of any help to me. I love em....it's nice to have actual satellite maps on the unit.....garmins "how to" 5 steps is a good explanation. ......or goto gpsfix's website Agree...the Garmin 5 steps looks simple and straight forward. Just never could get past the set of georef'ing the overlay. Quote Link to comment
snomchfun Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 I think I need some tips on Custom Maps also. I have yet understood how to make these work on my Oregon and actually I have not figured out how they can be of any help to me. I love em....it's nice to have actual satellite maps on the unit.....garmins "how to" 5 steps is a good explanation. ......or goto gpsfix's website Agree...the Garmin 5 steps looks simple and straight forward. Just never could get past the set of georef'ing the overlay. Only other thing is make sure your running the most recent version of Google earth. Quote Link to comment
+g-o-cashers Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 There are some tips for georeferencing in GE on GPSFix in this post (look about half way down): http://www.gpsfix.net/garmin-custom-maps-getting-started/ Quote Link to comment
snomchfun Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 There are some tips for georeferencing in GE on GPSFix in this post (look about half way down): http://www.gpsfix.net/garmin-custom-maps-getting-started/ I was there.....also great info. I was getting so frustrated though because if you don't make the setting change to absoute you'll spend the rest of your life trying to get the overlay to match. Quote Link to comment
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