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Posted by witek on October 18, 2006, 8:02 am
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Hello,
Do you need KML format ?
If I good understand, you need conversion from another data format
to Google Map KML format?
If its right, please visit our website:
www.tatukgis.com
Our Editor can make conversion to KML file format.
Best Regards
Witold Cizmowski
jeff.lebrun@gmail.com napisal(a):
> I recently used ESRI GIS to create a map layer for the country of Costa
>
> Rica. The most time consuming part of this process was playing with
> the resolution and zoom in GIS to get the tiles to line up properly
> when I used the tilecutter because I lined up every level by eye and
> had to due a lot of calculations by hand to get the zoom level just
> right. At the deeper levels of zoom it became nearly impossible to to
> this perfectly, although I think part of that may be due to distortion
> in coordinate systems from curvature of the earth.
>
> Has anybody found a way within GIS to transform your map to the google
> map coordinate system? By clicking on three points and assigning them
> values within GIS it should be possible to size and zoom the map image
> just right every time for the tilecutter tool. Doing this would make
> it pretty easy to provide road data in google maps for the smaller
> countries that are not fortunate enough to have it yet because of
> Navtech's steep pricing.
>
>
> If anybody who knows GIS better than I do wants to help with this I'd
> appreciate it! My next project is to take some data I've got on
> deforestation in Costa Rica and see what it looks like compare to the
> satellite images.
>
>
> -Jeff
> jleb...@umich.edu
> www.costaricamapproject.com
>
>
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