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Re: google earth projections [message #63177] Sun, 02 November 2008 05:34 Go to previous message
devin.white is currently offline  devin.white
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Google Earth uses Geographic Lat/Lon. If you continue to have
difficulty porting your images to Google Earth, you could try using
the Google Earth Super Overlay Tool. It's a plugin to ENVI available
for download here:

http://www.ittvis.com/UserCommunity/CodeLibrary.aspx

Search for "GEST" and it should be the first thing that pops up.


On Nov 1, 4:20 pm, "R.G. Stockwell" <notha...@noemail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know the IDL map projection to use to make a
> ground overlay in a kml file (to be viewed by a geobrowser such
> as google earth?)
>
> I've googled and have seen many different things stated,
> so I am not  sure if my use of  cylindrical  projection is right.
>
> My figures are off, in that my continents do not match earth's continents
> I am initiallty making a full globe image (-90 to 90 lat , -180 to 180 lon)
> similar to the big blue marble example.
>
> http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/11/blue_marble_ time_ani....
>
> but my image of the global map, does not reproduce the continents like
> in those images.http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/kml-samples/b mng12/files/BMNG...
>
> cheers,
> bob
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