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You are experiencing an offset or wrong scale of the imagery brought into your DWG drawing with the AutoCAD geolocation function (LiveMap). A building footprint appears smaller or larger than the live map data.

Make sure you have choosen the right "Drawing units" and "GIS Coordinate System" in the Geographic Location dialog. Your DWG objects may use other units/scale or another CS.

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See also:
Tip 14565:MAPIINSERT in version 2026 ignores georeference from the World file.
Tip 14468:How to connect Bing Maps in AutoCAD 2026 (and higher)?
Tip 14457:What is the difference between the commands GEOGRAPHICLOCATION, MAPCSASSIGN and GEOCSASSIGN in Map/Civil 3D?
Tip 14414:Link geo-tagged photos from your mobile phone to AutoCAD DWG maps.
Tip 13971:What do geolocation codes like 8FWPXFCF+82 or 33UVQ61402434 mean?
Selected tip: How to export all drawing blocks to individual DWG files?


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