tracking planes over a city

[eharvey]

How do I have the picture of my city placed as the background of my layout for plane tracking?  Also, set an address as a specific point on the map for tracking.

thanks for all the help.

[RodBearden]

Hi eharvey and welcome to the forum.

You SHOULD be able to download a NASA satellite picture of any area you want, but there's a bug at the moment - see this thread: http://www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=6798.0

When it's working, set up the view you want on your map view then press Ctrl-D, and give the image a name. It will then appear. It's a normal image, so when you zoom in, it pixellates. Because of this, I normally switch to full-screen map view first so that it captures a big image.

For setting up points on your map, you need Custom Legends. Get the lat/long in decimal format (I use Google Earth for this), and enter them in the format specified in the File...Preferences...RadarBox tab. Then make sure that the display of Custom Legends turned on in the Map menu.

Hope that helps

Rod

[eharvey]

Thanks

since the link does not work, it is difficult to get the picture that i want.  i will see if i convert the file or something.

thanks