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I've got a picture I'm planning on using for photomapping just solely for design work...

I created the bmp and noted the lat/lon co-ordinates of two points...

I then ran the whole thing through FS Resample Tools, and used the wizard to cross reference the two points to find the extents of the image...

I then finished up with the conversion and when I checked it against FS and the actual co-ordinates for those two lat/lon lines, the scenery seems to have placed it too far south...

Any ideas on what I migh have done wrong?

I trippled checked all co-ordinate data that I had input and it appears to be correct... The actual FS runway is almost on the money, so something is weird with my conversion...

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Did you already solve this? In the showroom I noticed it looked better :).l
 
Yeah mostly, good ole' trial and error...

I Figured out the % difference in size between the NASA images and the ERSA diagrams, played around in Photoshop to match up the pictures (actually about 99.8% aligned) and threw the whole thing into FS...

I got quite the surprise how it came out.... The colors are all off, but some color correction in Photoshop should make it look a little less severe...

I didn't think it would look as good as it came out... Now if I can only equate a how many pixels in a degree I might be able to do the whole region...

I could probably come up with a grid overlay for Photoshop if I really wanted to mess with it more...

Anyways, makes me want to go placing scenery objects now...

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