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SBuilderX photoreal placement?

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So I am placing my photoreal from USGS into SBuilderX. They are .tif and USGS has given me coordinates for the corners and center. In SbuilderX when I click on add map from disk it ask me to calibrate the map. It is asking for North Lat and South Lat, and West Long and East Long. I would the put in the NW corner long for the West long and the NW lat for the North Lat correct? Also do I have to change the files from a .tif to something else because once I calibrate the map it says map format incorrect.
Casey
 
The GIS format from the USGS site is very close to what FSX wants.

This ain't horseshoes and close does not count! :D

FSX requires that the GIS format be in Geographical/WGS84. USGS gives you something that is different. If someone is looking for a FREE utility to convert into the format FSX uses, then this might work;

http://freegeographytools.com/2009/extracting-tritonrmp-calibration-data-from-a-geotiff

Once it's in the proper format, the GeoTiff could be loaded into SBuilderX. Though once it's in the proper format, there's no reason the file can't be compiled with Resample and an INF file. If the file from USGS is too large, even in the proper format, then SBX will display a message box and tell you that Maps has been turned off.
 
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