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Prerequisite: Download and Install Google Desktop Pro
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Take an image of an antique map and download to your PC. In Google Earth, add it to your map as an image overlay. Consult instructions for image overlay if necessary. For now, a simple picture will suffice, though it is also possible to import kml and kmz files. I have used the original plan of Prospect Park by Vaux and Olmstead.
For the image overlay, I use this picture: The original plan of Prospect Park by Vaux and Olmstead, 1868.
Superimposing it on the GE map required completely shifting the orientation, and an extensive amount of warping.
In the next image, we see the georeferenced Olmstead-Vaux plan over the current Google Earth map, with 3D buildings enabled.
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