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Problem with SBuilderX Tile Servers

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When I first started trying to learn to place Photoreal scenery tiles I was having some great luck with the SBX internal servers, but that has ceased to be the case. Any more now the server will pull up the area I want and allow me to select the resolution and area I want, but beyond that it's a practice in futility. Ultimately, it will only allow the very lowest resolutions.

I have updated the dll's to the most recent (or I assume they are the most recent), but even after being told by Luis that those updates should correct the problem, they have not. . .actually they made no difference at all. I have also tried the USGS Seamless Server and early on that was working pretty well also, but now. . . .not so much.

I thought I could just save an image from google earth and use that, but the resolution is very low and calibrating is a hit and miss proposition. Can anyone offer any fool proof method for getting consistently hi-res images?

Thanks
 
Just to add insult to injury, I decided to uninstall SBuilderX completely, then reinstall, update the server dll's and pray that it fixed the problem. Soooo. . .I did. . .I uninstalled SBuilderX and in the process lost every project I've ever worked on. . .yep, failed to save all the projects.

No great loss I suppose as one other problem early on had already rendered many of the first projects I did unusable, so this simply finished off the remaining work I'd done.

Anyway, after all that, reinstalled everything, updated the dll's and absolutely nothing has changed. Where I used to be able to produce nice hi-res photo imagery, now all the servers will allow is the lowest resolution. So the question is. . .what has changed on my system only (because others are actually using SBuilderX to check to see if they are disabled as well and are not) to now prevent me from gaining any hi-res satellite images? Why just me?
 
Not sure what is causing your problem. Is the Virtual Earth server working OK? Google seems to be on again off again. Did you do your reinstall to a clean folder?

scott s.
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scott967 said:
Not sure what is causing your problem. Is the Virtual Earth server working OK? Google seems to be on again off again. Did you do your reinstall to a clean folder?
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Actually is seems to be across the board Scott. I can get a background image from any of them, but getting the final hi-res image is a bust (normally any more). Just to throw a kink into it, yesterday afternoon I gave it another shot and actually got a nice image for an airport I'm working on. . .so out of the blue it decided to work, at least once.

I guess I just need to take what I can get when I can get it and move on cause I don't think anyone else has a problem with it and I'm expecting to get a perfect image every time which apparently isn't possible.
 
I don't think there is any way to know the actual resolution of the data on the servers, other than something like usgs "seamless" where there is metadata that shows it. From what I've seen if you have SBX zoom at 12 or 13 you get a Landsat image, which IIUC is 30m resolution for the color tiles. Zooming into somewhere between 14-17 normally gives me a good image, if it is available. At times I get the tile downloading indication, and it hangs at 1 tile remaining. For Google Earth sometimes it seems like the tiles are downloaded, but all you see is "white". You should be able to look at the tile cache with an image viewer and see just what the tiles look like.

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