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FS2004 FSEarthTiles and Google

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Hi Dick,

Sorry to bother you with this because it is not really SbuilderX related, on the contrary.
Fact is that I use Sbuilder for FS9 but not for FSX.
Instead I use FSEarthTiles to download photoscenery (because I am lazy and that was what I was used to) and once having resampled the downloaded tiles to get a bgl, I use ADE and its groundpoly editor to enhance the photoreal because I do not know (and do not want to know) how to use Gmax.
Unfortunately and as you are aware of, GE does constantly change its server settings and moribund (if we do not help it) FSEarthTiles, as far as I know (???) , does not have the capability any longer to download from GE.
As a consequence of the foregoing, I wonder if you would be willing to tell us either:
- how to use your constantly updated GE server.dll SBX downloads for FSEarthTiles users;
or
- to tell us how to use the SbuilderX downloaded tiles with ADE's gp-editor.
I mean, I do hope that there is no feud between ADE and Sbuilder?
Maybe I have it all wrong but hence my question.
Thanks.
 
Hi Roby.

I moved the post to a new thread. FSEarthTiles still can grab Google tiles:

Code: 
[Service1] #Google Maps
ServiceName = Google
ServiceCodeing = qrts
ServiceUrl =http://khm0.google.com/kh?t=t%s&n=404&v=165
Referer = http://khm0.google.com
UserAgent = Mozilla/4.0
ServerVariations = khm0,khm1,khm2,khm3

I just tried this and it worked for me.

Dick
 
Hi Roby.

You can use SBuilderX to obtain an image. The native format is a bitmap, and you can get the corner extents if that's what ADE requires.

The 'map' is stored in SBuilderX's \Tools\Work\ folder and has a name like L17X66553X66556Y96679Y96693.BMP, and there will be a text file named like L17X66553X66556Y96679Y96693.TXT

The TXT file has the corners. The bitmap is latlong, wgs84.

Dick
 
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