#EARTH 3D MAP PDF#

Remember that you can use the mouse wheel and move the view around WHILE you are resizing your image. Try to use existing or soon-to-be-connecting streets to get an idea how your neighborhood and lot will fit into the scheme of things. I encourage you to make the image partially transparent to make resizing easier. Hover your mouse over these lines to resize your image. You'll know you're able to resize when Kermit-green colored lines appear all around your image. Only when the Properties Dialog is up can you resize the image. In my screenshot above it's called 'Untitled Image Overlay.' Right-click it and select Properties. TIP: You have to Right Click the new Image Overlay in the Places pane, usually on the left site of the Google Earth screen. You can't immediately resize the image and it can be very frustrating. This step can be VERY confusing because Google Earth has no way of knowing what the 'scale' of your image is, so it'll just fill the screen. :( Make sure you double check your transparency and get all the non-map stuff removed cleanly. Goof: I realize now after this is all done that I kind of screwed up this example because I left some white border in the far right and very bottom, and a tiny white line on the far left of the neighborhood map. Now, go back over to Google Earth and click Add | Image Overlay and select your just-saved PNG file. Import the new transparent Neighborhood Map and resize Now, be sure to save this file as a PNG, which is a file format that includes transparency.Ĥ. The checkerboard area underneath means 'transparent' or 'see-thru.' This will make our map look much better once we put it into Google Earth. In this example I'm removing logos, the legend, everything. Once you've got your neighborhood picture in Paint.NET (or whatever editor) use the Eraser or Magic Wand tool set to low tolerance to select and delete all the whitespace that isn't part of the map. Open your Paint application and paste in the picture of the neighborhood. Use the screenshot tool or press Printscreen to get a screenshot in the clipboard. Edit the Neighborhood map and remove the non-map stuff, leaving the rest transparent.

#EARTH 3D MAP PDF#

Open the PDF and get it as large as you can on the screen.ģ. Go to your Builder or Realtor's site and get the neighborhood map. Put a pushpin on the area so you can get back there quickly.Ģ. The imagery is usually a few years old, but if it's an empty lot anyway it shouldn't matter. If you want to visualize your house lot, here's some steps to help make that possible.ġ. Few 'civilians' (read: non-geek) that I've met have used Google Earth, which is a shame. Most folks have used Google Maps or Virtual Earth before, but mostly just for driving directions. (This isn't a house or neighborhood I'm looking at, I've just selected it for demonstration) Seems that this kind of thing could be very useful to a prospective buyer. I wanted to understand how the neighborhood would lay out and where houses would sit, but other than pencil sketches, they couldn't help me. There's no kiosk, no 3D renderings, nada. I was surprised that the Real Estate folks (at least these) weren't very computer savvy. We were screwing around last weekend looking a houses and found a big empty lot that some folks are building houses on. Optionally: Google SketchUp (for Part 2).WinSnap or WindowClippings (or ALT-Printscreen) to do screenshots.Paint.NET (or any editor that does the PNG format with transparency).(assumes Windows, but there's comparable tools on any platform)

Earth 3d map