[GRASS-user] Importing googleearth image

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Rich Shepard wrote
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2018, Micha Silver wrote:
> 
>> When it comes to visualizing your results on some basemap, I'd warmly
>> recommend switching to QGIS and preparing your map layouts in the QGIS
>> map
>> composer. You have access to all your GRASS maps thru the QGIS GRASS
>> provider, and you can use the QGIS plugin "QuickMapServices" to have
>> access to several online WMS services for a choice of background maps.
> 
> Micha,
> 
>    I've not before had need to learn qgis. Yes, it can apparently do a
> 'better' job of map publishing than can grass, but that's not what I was
> wanting to do.
> 
>    When I view a project's area on Google-Earth my reading of instructions
> and GE-associated web pages suggests there are two options for saving the
> view: as a bit-mapped .jpg (which can be converted to .png) without any
> associated geographic coordinates or as a point vector of a designated
> 'place' saved as a .kml file.
> 
>    I wanted to learn if there's a way of saving the GE view as a
> georeferenced .kml that could be imported into grass and draped over a
> shaded DEM or used as an underlay with grass vector maps on top. My
> understanding is there there is no way to do this.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich
> 
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If you're interested in kml superoverlay, a starting point may be e.g.

http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/gdal-dev-Should-GDAL-handle-this-KML-superoverlay-td5293758.html



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Helmut
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