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National Geographic map tiles for SBuilderX

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Hi all.

I found an interesting source for tile images for SBuilderX. They are National Geographic tiles. The images are very interesting. Level 11 is supported for most of the world. New York and Chicago have level 15.

The watermasking and river placement looks very good. Place-names are very good as well.

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I found there are several different ArcGis tiles:

National Geographic to level 15
Light_Gray to level 15
World_Imagery to level 17
StreetMap to level 18
TopoMap to level 18
Ocean to level 15

The levels depend on where you are looking. NewYork is the max... but even in Africa or Oceana, the levels are quite nice. They may have limited use for photoreal, but they are very good for building placement in NewYork, or tracing rivers in Africa.

Do your own investigations of copyrights and legalities (as always). Generally, photoreal is frowned upon.


Attached as a zip. Put the ArcGisServer.dll in the ...\SBuilderX313\Tiles folder.

Dick
 

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