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I'm working on the Des Moines International Airport. So far I have finished the basic design of the taxiways, and runways, but now I need to move on to the more detailed stuff. Like the taxi lines, and the runway marks. I'm trying to find how to get a high resolution image that I'll be able to see the markings on.

If you have any suggestions, I'd be very grateful.
 
Even with really high definition imagery you just can't see some of the markings. Stuff like "EQUIPMENT CLEARANCE" markings are just too small to make out. What I recommend and refer to is the airport standards. You should check with your airport regulator who should publish standards on what line markings should be. I do this for all my Australian airports. Some people don't and it bugs the crap out of me.

Once you know what you should expect to see it can be a heck of a lot easier to make an educated guess on what that smudge on the imagery is meant to say.

Do a google search for "usa standards for airport markings". A few FAA pdfs come up in the first results.

Looking at the Google Earth imagery I think there are some double yellow line markings which on GE kind of look like a blurred single line. If you know what the standards say you can determine if they are in fact double yellows. The standards will also spell out exactly how wide those lines should be and what the gap between them should be.
 
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