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Adding images using the WMTS service

Adding images using the WMTS service - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Adding images using the WMTS service

- [Narrator] Next we're going to add a web map tile service, or WMTS to our current DWG. The service is coming from the US Geological Survey map service, and it covers the topographical map of the entire North America, but we're going to zoom into our area right now, Guelph, and look at what the USGS topographical map looks like. When we open up the Guelph DWG, we see that there's a background map. I have the map roads on. Now we can turn on the aerial or flip it back to road, and it just gives us some spatial context of where we are. So you can see Guelph on the map. If I zoom way out you could see that we're sort of northwest of Buffalo, sort of due west of Toronto and northeast of Detroit, just to give us some context where we are. So I'm going to zoom back in, and you can see in the outline of the city limits there. Now that's just a P-line on the city limits layer, but I'm going to turn off the map road in the…

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