is there a way to generate an image from Virtual Earth
Are you working in Radian or 8? What size image do you want? Is it for use onscreen or for printing the size of a highway sign? 8: If you have not yet used it, see the Tools - Make Image command. Otherwise... Link the VE imageserver using Global extents. Open in a window and pan and zoom to the view of interest. Save the view in the Views pane for future reference. Link another VE imageserver session using the Window extent. Unlink that to make the desired image. Back in the first VE imageserver window pan and zoom to the next view of interest. Save that view as well. Link another VE imageserver session using the Window extent. Unlink that. And so on. Radian: You can have multiple windows open into the same data source simultaneously and pan and zoom all of those independently. There's no "make a local image for these extents" button so you'll have to program what you want as a image (Radian is a DBMS/programming tool, not a GIS...), but if you want something for display on screen that's easy: Alt-click the window caption to undock the window, resize to the size you want (across multiple monitors if you like) and then press Alt-PrtScn to capture onto the Clipboard. Then Paste wherever you want. Wish I could create a gofundme to get a supercomputer that could display a couple hundred square miles and not have the PC grind to a halt lol.
Use Radian. No need to wish for a supercomputer when effective use of what you already have does the job. I routinely use 30+ GB and 50+ GB images in Radian on a 32-bit Windows tablet. Below are screenshots of a 36 GB image that shows the region around Boston in 13 cm resolution, easily a couple of hundred square miles. These are reduced .jpg resolution so they will fit within allowed uploads to the forum but they give an idea of what the original 36 GB image is like. The original resolution seen in these images is throughout the entire image. You can zoom into anywhere in hundreds of square miles and count every person in view on a sidewalk and every car. I have no idea what various browsers will do with these full-size images but what the heck... let's see: All of Boston Zoomed in to the tourist area around Faneuil Hall, basically a large food court. Zoomed in to a western suburb, Newton, I think. Attachments: boston1.jpg boston2.jpg boston3.jpg
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