Comments on: The USGS Seamless Data Distribution System http://freegeographytools.com/2007/the-usgs-seamless-data-distribution-system Exploring the world of free tools for GIS, GPS, Google Earth, neogeography, and more. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:44:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Leszek Pawlowicz http://freegeographytools.com/2007/the-usgs-seamless-data-distribution-system#comment-98 Leszek Pawlowicz Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:06:36 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/?p=92#comment-98 The short answer is, open the image as an image overlay in Google Earth, drag and stretch it to fit the Google Earth view, then save it as a KML file. Slow, inaccurate, and can use a lot of memory.<br/><br/>The longer answer is, you can get some of the images (topos and aerial photos) in KML format by using a KML network file available at GPSVisualizer.com. A search at the Google Earth blog should pull up several other similar options as well. Also consumes a lot of memory.<br/><br/>I have a free program to create tiled overlays, and I'll post about it sometime in the future. But I need to write a few GUI front-ends for command line programs, and related posts, first before doing that. The short answer is, open the image as an image overlay in Google Earth, drag and stretch it to fit the Google Earth view, then save it as a KML file. Slow, inaccurate, and can use a lot of memory.

The longer answer is, you can get some of the images (topos and aerial photos) in KML format by using a KML network file available at GPSVisualizer.com. A search at the Google Earth blog should pull up several other similar options as well. Also consumes a lot of memory.

I have a free program to create tiled overlays, and I’ll post about it sometime in the future. But I need to write a few GUI front-ends for command line programs, and related posts, first before doing that.

]]> By: Aaron http://freegeographytools.com/2007/the-usgs-seamless-data-distribution-system#comment-97 Aaron Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:01:50 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/?p=92#comment-97 Wow... wonky interface aside, this seems like a mighty powerful tool.<br/><br/>How about a post on getting images from the USGS Seamless server into Google Earth?<br/><br/>I tried to do it yesterday, but couldn't come up with an easy or obvious way to do it. Wow… wonky interface aside, this seems like a mighty powerful tool.

How about a post on getting images from the USGS Seamless server into Google Earth?

I tried to do it yesterday, but couldn’t come up with an easy or obvious way to do it.

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