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will look like, we used Photoshop to scale <br />and merge two Pictometry images: an exist- <br />ing oblique angle image of the area and a <br />recently constructed highway segment 20 <br />miles south. <br />This technique is equally effective in <br />urban areas. In another community, our <br />goal was to show how the fabric of a down- <br />town that had been weakened by auto - <br />oriented development could be repaired <br />through strategic infiill. We used Photoshop <br />to blend and scale a Pictometry image of <br />a desired development into an existing <br />Pictometry image of downtown. Photoshop <br />also allowed us to clone the parking areas <br />in the rear and sidewalks in the front to cre- <br />ate the desired character. <br />SketchUp + Google Earth + Pictometry <br />SketchUp closely integrates with Google <br />Earth imagery, allowing you to retrieve an <br />aerial photograph that can be traced to <br />create a 3-D model of a place or area. The <br />resolution of the import image is defined by <br />a fixed import window. This can be problem- <br />atic if you are trying to accurately trace exist- <br />ing conditions of a large area brought into <br />SketchUp with a single import. When you <br />import an aerial image of a large geographic <br />area, important details are not always <br />clearly discernable, including building foot- <br />prints, sidewalks, parking areas, and other <br />features. To overcome this, you can simply <br />ZONINGPRACTICE 3.12 <br />AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION Ipage 6 <br />