I did find this recently and tried to overlay it. It's not to accurately placed, but it's looks cool. use 80-100% opaque and countryborders clicked on.

enjoy

VERY VERY COOL!

i fine tuned it a little for you , i think i got it sitting pretty perfect, i checked random cities around the world and it all seemed to line up pretty dead on..

T.

Wow! thanks!

What is the tricks with placing overlays perfectly? i have real difficulties placing them spoton. Some tips?

Anytime dude, i generally just go to the adjustment point and zoom right in on them to pull them really tight & close, and then up to the poles and do the same, and then i check various costal cities at different lattitudes & longitudes and see how they line up, the i fine tune from that & recheck.. in this instance i was mainly using Sth. America, West Europe & Australia / NZ

if you want, here are my messenger details so we can have a chat!

T.

I think some others can learn a birt more about this.
Where is the adjustment point? That is apparently the first thing to do when lining up correctly? Is it the center point of the overlay? Cos when i take a corner and adjust, everything shifts with it. Pain in the ass really.

And by zooming in i can see if the overlay is correct at detailed points, but i have to zoom out again to adjust when necessary, is this true? Cos then everything shifts again and it's not funny sometimes to get it exactly right.

ok, here we go.. remember, you asked for this rant :P



Images 1 & 4:
The poles, when you zoom in really close you can pull the image right down so theres almost nothing uncovered, its like tightening the drawstring on a bag - this will make the image sit better vertically, unless the image is unproportional (which in this case - it isnt)

Image 2:
this is the point that lets you spin the image around ontop of the globe freely without adgusting the edges, it is in the "middle" of the image. use this for the fine tuning i was talking about

Image 3:
the "+" where the two "outer" edges of the image meet [or dont meet, depending on if you are doing a whole globe overlay, or just a city]the markers look like -| |- when seperated.
I cant seem to get these together seemlessly, but its only a slight gap.. this is where you decide how "wide" the image is (how much of the globe gets covered)
Fine tune this part, becareful because once they start overlapping it pushes the other edge out of the way and ends up misaligning you
the <> thing to the right of the image is where you can rotate the image, you usually wont need to do this in the case of whole globe overlays though.

Phew, thats that.. any questions?

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PETJE: And by zooming in i can see if the overlay is correct at detailed points, but i have to zoom out again to adjust when necessary, is this true?

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yes that right; zoom out to fine-tune, zoom in to check it, use about 80% opacity. -- the image wont move at all from where you placed it while you are zooming.

Hope this helps you all, if you have any further tips or if ive forgotten something, feel free to add on, or ask me any questions - i'll try answer them as best as i can

T.

Sorry but this has already been done :
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/40339/an/0/page/2#40339
And there is also this one (realtime !):
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/40629/an/0/page/2#40629

@araT : nice explaination