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Hi guys, really don't know if this is the correct place for this tread,and in case It's missplaced,please tell me. Anyway, what I am trying to do is to get a jpeg picture that has been taken with my camera, and place it in its correct coordinates in FSX. Can you please advice which is the software that I have to get so as to accomplish this.
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Posted this threat a few days ago and seems that no one has an answer for it? what I am trying to do is to place a jpeg picture of my house which is real close to my home airport, and fly over it, as planes departing from this airport do, to visit the Nazca lines, south from where I am. Guess there must be a software that can do this, problem is that I don't know which.
 
I'm not too sure what you are asking -- do you have an aerial photo taken from an aircraft? Is it just the ground image you want to place in FSX?
I'd just look at the SDK tool 'resample'. This is probably all you'd need.
To use your image, you'd need to correct the perspective and rotate it to match WGS84 projection.

The mapping industry uses some very expensive tools and software, which nobody could hope to match, but since you are looking at one small area it would be fine to manually correct, rotate and place the image. It would be even easier to do this is with a tool such as Global Mapper, but this costs at least US$200.

I'd be inclined to look at images which are already projected to WGS84 -- such as Google Earth -- and use this as a template to fit my image over the top.

Then all you need to do is to work out the co-ordinates for the inf file -- I think you'd need to do some serious research to learn how to do this, it isn't an automatic process.
 
Hi, thanks for your reply. Let me clarify what I am trying to do: No I do not have an aerial photo taken from an aircraft that I want to take to FSX. And yes it is just a ground image taken with my Nikon digital camera that I want to place in FSX? can I do this? how and using which software?
 
Hi,

I am still not sure if I understand what you want to do. That photo of your house, do you want it displayed on the terrain or onto a 3D object?
 
Hi Arno, what I want to do, if posible, is to place the jpeg photo of my house on the terrain that FSX shows around the airport that I made with ADE in Peru(ICA)about a year ago,airport that FSX did not include in it's default list of airports, take off from there and fly over my house which is real close to this airport. Can this be done? The real airport can be seen with Google if you go to ICA, Peru, and I have also modified the scenery that google shows using FSX KML.
Regards
 
Hi,

As Robin said this means you will have to provide some geo referencing to your photo, so that the resample tool can know where in the world the photo should be placed. I think this only works well if you have a photo that shows your house from the top.
 
Arno, yes I was also thinking that a photo of the house taken from the top would be needed, and I don't think that it would be too hard to get. As to the geo referencing of my photo, this is also something that I can provide. With both issues in order the resample tool would know what to do, correct? Now that I know this, the key issue for me is to determine which resample tool do I need. Can you tell me which tool do I need and where to get it from? Guess that the whole thing must be an easy task for you guys, but for me it's really hard, being the first time that I try to do this, therefore would appreciate once more, your help and understanding:o.
Regards
 
When I say resample tool, I just mean the resample.exe from the SDK. I am not sure, but maybe you can even use SBuilderX to geo-reference your image. That might be worth a try I would say.
 
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