geophil wrote:
Great!
My recommendation for the next steps, as always
: Use a map for the ground textures, e.g. Open Street Map. Use ortho-images for UTM tiles. Aerial photos will not be legible as a ground texture, resolution is too low. For UTM tiles you will have to run a few tests to find a suitable scale. The closer your get, the more images you need. I have suggested 500m eye altitude a couple of times in the past, or zoom level 16 or 17 when using the Map Tile client.
Hello Roland
My first try-outs with the above info was not a great success. You have to feel a bit lucky selecting the right options.
Nevertheless, it's a challenge
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I also tried a solution given in the Trainz Communitiy news newsletter of march 2010. It is a article - Producing topography maps for Trainz using google earth by Ian Manion ( Vulcan ).
I tried his solution - being importing the google image as an object. The result was quite satisfactory, I could see water, track, green patches, etc. Of course, the object is geographicaly speaking not correctly placed . I could use this method with trs 2009, but not with 2010. Reason ???
Now, just finding the right options within Transdem.
Best regards
Kurt