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Where to find / buy high res satellite images of the UK? (trying to create a Google Earth like animation)
Hi there people,
I was wondering if anyone knew where to find / buy high resolution satellite shots of the world. Specifically I need shots of the UK. I am trying to create an animation which involves flying a camera into specific areas of the UK. Essentially like Google Earth. Is there anywhere I can find such images. they need to be bitmap not vector, just like Google Earth basically. Any help greatly appreciated.
Owain
Motion Graphics Designer 422 Manchester – England
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2 Replies
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Hi Owain,
I bought stuff from Digital Globe (Before Google Earth was around)
https://www.digitalglobe.com/They have some pretty high res stuff, but I guess that’s always relative to what you actually need to do with them.
Cheers,
Vince
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Well,
I’ve had succes using screenshots from Google earth, using the elevation as a filename so I knew the scale-relation between different layers, then just masked them onto each other, though they needed some lens correction.
That works for a straight zoom in, not for rotation obviously, but you could crossfade with a CCSphered layer the standard hires Earth texture that can be found on the internet to do your rotations there.Or just pan around meshed together cloesups if you don’t need to go so wide.
(I didn’t use it for a commercial project though, I’m pretty sure that would break their license)
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