needing help overlaying a historical map

relicmeister

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You might want to repost this in Metal Detecting forum whereit will get more notice,\
I don't have any experience with this myself and I'm not that advanced with digital applications. I would almost prefer a manual method like projection or tracings.
Hopw you get the advice you seek
 

Jason in Enid

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OK, if you have google earth installed on your computer this is how I do it: First, scan or take a digital pic of the map you want to overlay, then load it onto the computer. zoom your GE map to the area of your overlay. click on "add" at the top left, then select "image overlay" from the drop down. it will open a dialog box, use the "browse" button to select the image on your computer that you want to overlay. Then you can change its transparency level. The green square around the image lets you move, rotate and re-size. Every time you re-size you need to re-check your placement.

one last tip, the resizing is NOT constrained to original dimensions. It's more like it lets you stretch and compress it up/down and left/right independent of each other.
 

Hal Croves

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Does anyone know how to overlay a historical map? Are there any that are free? I have tried using google earth and historical mapworks but I just keep getting a big red X. I am trying to do the lacrosse Wisconsin area.

Have you had luck? Jason in Enid gave good instructions but if you still need help me know.
 

hpridal

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You can do it this way with MapTiler (is so far the easiest I found):
 

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