Overlay topo maps in Google Earth
Posted:
Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:40 am
by Ze
I thought this was really cool when I found it, so
I wrote something up on how to overlay and use topo maps in Google Earth. Someone even made a way to overlay historical maps!!!
Posted:
Sun Feb 14, 2010 2:58 am
by psycobill
I just figured this out the other day! Absolutely love it. I'm a bit of a google earth addict, but it does keep me stoked about trail running and exploring/linking different trails as well as calculating mileage
Posted:
Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:14 am
by Ze
I really like the historical maps too, which sometimes have more accurate trails and also other trails to explore which have been erased from current usgs topos.
Re: Overlay topo maps in Google Earth
Posted:
Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:25 pm
by Brewer
Ze wrote:I thought this was really cool when I found it, so
I wrote something up on how to overlay and use topo maps in Google Earth. Someone even made a way to overlay historical maps!!!
Nice. This looks much easier and faster than the "old" way of overlaying topos on GE (using the GPSVisualizer.com overlay plugin).
Posted:
Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:27 am
by Sierra Ledge Rat
Coolest.
NASA used to do that will the moon missions, they called 'em orthophotomaps.
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-LTO.html
Posted:
Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:40 pm
by Ze
Now you can
view the elevation profiles of routes you make in Google Earth. A great combo with the topo overlay that I think makes it superior to TOPO and others.