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on: August 16, 2008, 04:44:12 PM

Anyone know of an app, other than photoshop, for pinpointing locations and travel paths that can do transatlantic stuff. Working on a project and no application I can find will do it in a nice cohesive, dynamic (can pick which path to show, etc) way.

Anyone know of one?
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Reply #1 on: August 16, 2008, 05:42:49 PM

No, but how do Austrians tell where they are if every street has the same name?
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Reply #2 on: August 16, 2008, 05:45:45 PM

You need something that can chart a route across oceans, like something that accounts for driving some part, taking a train another part, a boat or plane for the third, and mass-transit/car when landing?

I don't know of anything that can do that, but I'm curious as well. I'd end up combining Google Maps with Expedia or Orbitz probably.
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Reply #3 on: August 16, 2008, 05:59:34 PM

Anyone know of an app, other than photoshop, for pinpointing locations and travel paths that can do transatlantic stuff. Working on a project and no application I can find will do it in a nice cohesive, dynamic (can pick which path to show, etc) way.

Anyone know of one?

You could always just use the measuring tool to draw a line from point-to-point.


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Reply #4 on: August 16, 2008, 06:30:24 PM

Oh fascinating. Yes, that might work.
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Reply #5 on: August 17, 2008, 12:25:17 PM

try ESRI's ArcGis explorer beta

http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/explorer/index.html

ESRI is basically the lead company in GIS.

have this program loaded on a work computer and haven't tinkered too much with it, it is basically their response to google earth. 

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Reply #6 on: August 17, 2008, 01:14:22 PM

Haven't used it for awhile but maybe NASA's Blue Marble/World Wind would have this ability.

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.html
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Reply #7 on: August 18, 2008, 08:15:24 AM

try ESRI's ArcGis explorer beta

http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/explorer/index.html

ESRI is basically the lead company in GIS.

have this program loaded on a work computer and haven't tinkered too much with it, it is basically their response to google earth. 

Use this software daily, well the ArcGIS version.  I can spec out any type of mapping need, just give me the details.
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Reply #8 on: August 18, 2008, 10:10:48 AM

No, but how do Austrians tell where they are if every street has the same name?

Our superior intellect and spatial awareness at work. We have the world best school for carrier pigeons, where they learn to navigate via the earths magnetic field FROM US.

That, or Schenkenfelden is a small village with 1500 people, and Schild is actually how one of seven areas of the village is called. The cities name is "Tavern in the field", I'm in awe that google Earth even found it.  awesome, for real
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Reply #9 on: August 18, 2008, 01:12:58 PM

No, but how do Austrians tell where they are if every street has the same name?
Take a left at Lictenstein...

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