It depends on where you live. I was on the brink of doing like you before noticing, doing a photomatch with the 3D data. Luckily a same kind of textured autogenerated 3D model was available for free at the local municipality in question.
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Thank You
You sir are always helpful.
Thank you! Good luck with your project.
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Did you just contact your local planning office for it?
In my case (Helsinki, Finland) the data was freely downloadable from the city planning office website. The Lidar scans (at 2 m intervals, I think) for our whole country are also freely downloadable from our National Survey website (I use a paying service that converts them to meshes automatically).
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Thank you! I can repeat this and it is work fine for 2 areas. Now I try to merge all areas and pc works 12 hours.) I hope my pc can handle it.)
This seems like the best way, but so expensive.
Also I find Terrain. But it is expensive too.
Less expensive than a being sued by Google for using their imagery against their terms of use.
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No, Im not use Google Maps. As I know now it is OSM in the SU.
Ok, I waited 4 days and my patience ran out.) I stoped SU. MeshWrapper is good method to merge geo-locations less than 10 areas.
And I found another way to make 3D terrain. Of course It is not easy like PlaceMaker or Terrain
Thank you all for help.
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Itâs been a while since I used PlaceMaker (I helped test it before it was released), so what Iâll suggest may not be exactly how the experience goesâŚ
Did you notice the free version, where you pay for what you import? For $12 you get 100 credits, and my hope is that you can use those just for the OpenStreetMap imports, and not accidentally use the credits for building or infrastructure imports. You also can preview the OpenStreetMap images.
The hope is that for $12 you can give it a good try, to see if the images are worth that much. PlaceMaker does do a lot more than just import good map images, and you may end up using it for more of what it can do, but as a test for better map images, $12 doesnât seem too bad.
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Ok I just got 100 credits on placemaker because the stock SketchUp location satellite image was not very good. I went through the import process and used 2 credits and it gave me the same exact image as the stock import. I am a little frustrated with placemaker as I could have done the same thing for free. What is the next option if placemaker does not have a higher resolution image? Here is the difference.
Something one of us should have thought to mention is that Nearmap doesnât cover everywhere. Sorry about that.
Here is the map of the areas that are covered.
Nearmap is no where near my location. I looked all over on Friday for another image I could buy or use and I could not come up with anything else that was usable. At this point I think if I have to pay over double to move from a classic license to a subscription this feature should move back to Google or something similar that will work because this does not.
You would probably have to take that up with Google since it was Google that took away the option to use their data and imagery.
Did you check with the county GIS office to see if they had imagery?
No one at the county has got back to me yet on that.
Well, fingers crossed they will today.
I donât know what to say about Google taking it away except that the software cost is going up and I canât see where this is getting better. Will it get better? I hope so. It used to work now it does not. Even when I buy a third party service it is still not usable.
I donât know about the future but what Google used to provide for free now comes at a fairly stiff cost to Trimble so a percentage of the price of the license goes to cover that. The higher res stuff comes at a greater cost which is why something like Placemaker comes into play. Unfortunately there doesnât seem to be one entity other than Google that covers the whole planet. I imagine no one else has deep enough pockets to create all that imagery at high res.
Maybe thereâs a business opportunity. An airplane with a belly hole, a commercially-rated pilot, and and a hi res camera. 
Our National Survey (Finland) has started a new project. They are LIDAR scanning the whole country at a resolution of something like 3 points per square meter. Their current data is much coarser so that the smallest features are missing. I donât know if this leaves others with an business opportunities. I donât know how long it will take, there are 337000 square kilometers to go.
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