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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2018 14:14:22 GMT -5
Greetings fellow designers,
I'm an XB1 designer, so I don't have the opportunity to do some of the tricks that PC guys do with overlays or tracings on the screen. If I were ever to play around with an RCR in the future, how do I go about measuring on top of Google Maps so I can triangulate property and then begin to build my plot on the TGC designer?
Thanks, Eric
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Post by culallen on May 15, 2018 16:25:01 GMT -5
Greetings fellow designers, I'm an XB1 designer, so I don't have the opportunity to do some of the tricks that PC guys do with overlays or tracings on the screen. If I were ever to play around with an RCR in the future, how do I go about measuring on top of Google Maps so I can triangulate property and then begin to build my plot on the TGC designer? Thanks, Eric I find that downloading Google Earth Pro is helpful. You can customize your measuring units and even pull some elevation data from there. Admittedly, I don't know enough about it to get the most out of the tools, but there is good info on there. When I did my home course as an RCR, I just found a reference point and measured pretty much everything from there. Luckily for me it was an almost perfectly rectangle plot oriented north and south. Although it's not an RCR, I'm trying to recreate the terrain of Zilker Park in Austin for my Survivor course. I am trying a method where I have created a 16 X 16 grid on the map and did the same on the designer to help approximate things. Of course, that's easier for me to do since there isn't an actual course on that property. Anyway, I doubt I've helped much here. I know others will have a lot more pertinent info, so I'll be following this thread closely.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2018 17:31:16 GMT -5
Thanks Cullen, actually I hadn't tried Google Earth Pro, so at least you led me to that. I was thinking about practicing by doing the crappy muni that I live next to in PA, but I likely would never publish it to TGC2 because it's a terribly designed course. LMAO
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Post by CiB0RG on May 17, 2018 9:19:20 GMT -5
Hi Eric, I would just use the Google maps measurement tool and try to coordinate it with your in-game measurement tools and lay out the plot from there. If done with care this can be pretty accurate for plotting (all though not as easy as overlaying). Unfortunately Google's terrain maps aren't that great so it isn't a very helpful tool. For elevation you will have to probably go by pictures or memory for a muni course. If you've never used it before here's what you do: Locate the course on Google maps. Make sure you have the display set to "satellite". Right click the point you want to start your measurement and a list will show up. Click "Measure Distance": Next, left click the point to which you want to measure. Your measurement will appear on the screen. (These points are not set in stone, you can click and drag them once they are chosen.): The measurement tool will take the measurement in a straight line between the 2 points you selected, however, you can string together multiple points by continuing to left click on the map. The total distance shown will be the sum of the distances between each of the points: My version of Google maps measures all these distances in Feet. I find it easy enough to convert that to any other unit I need so I have not checked if it's possible to change units on regular Google maps. Not sure if this was what you were looking for but if it might help you or someone else who was not aware the regular online version of Google maps has a built-in measurement tool. (I took these screen shots of Saint Clair Shores Golf Club. A small local course that I play quite often. If it were longer it might make a decent RCR.)
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2018 12:25:17 GMT -5
I use Google earth Pro...and make use of the waypoints and pins that you can set. I would seriously consider messaging Acesrwild or Royce. This is what they do and have considerably more constructive advice on how to use Google Earth than I do.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2018 16:51:05 GMT -5
I use Google earth Pro...and make use of the waypoints and pins that you can set. I would seriously consider messaging Acesrwild or Royce. This is what they do and have considerably more constructive advice on how to use Google Earth than I do. This is what I do. I find the farthest distance across the course and make these 2 points as my 'main-line.' These two points and the line that connects them are set in stone. Let's say that this line runs west to east. I now want to find the northernmost point of the course in relation to my mainline. This becomes my northern waypoint. I connect the N point to the E and W points. I do the same for the southernmost. I now have 4 points and 5 connecting lines or 6 if you want to connect N and S. I can now replicate these points and lines into the course designer. With these four points, I can triangulate anything from Google Earth and use those measurements to duplicate it's exact location in the designer.
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Post by jacobkessler on May 21, 2018 8:02:33 GMT -5
I’ve been working on a google earth doc for that RCR doc I put together a little while back. I’ll probably have that done in a day or two.
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Post by jord088 on Apr 22, 2020 12:26:50 GMT -5
I’ve been working on a google earth doc for that RCR doc I put together a little while back. I’ll probably have that done in a day or two. Do you have this by any chance? 😅 thanks
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