[OZAPRS] Hi Res map of Australia for UI-View

[Geoff]

Hi Ray,

Yep we can host them on he website.
It'll be good to start building up a decent map repository :-)

Geoff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
> Behalf Of Ray Wells
> Sent: Friday, 10 April 2009 8:39 AM
> To: Australian APRS Users
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] Hi Res map of Australia for UI-View
> 
> Colin,
> 
> Geoscience Australia (www.ga.gov.au) have their entire 1:250000 series
> topographic maps available online at no cost. They are high resolution,
> digital versions of their paper series maps.
> 
> You do have to register with GA to be able to download the maps, and
> each time you get maps you need to tick a few boxes regarding your use
> of the maps. They are in ecw format, which Irfanview can convert to jpg.
> The size of each map varies from about 3MB up to about 8MB, depending on
> the area covered by a particular map. When converted to jpg the maps
> increase up to around 20MB each. I've split all of mine in Photoshop
> into (mostly) 0.5° x 0.5° segments for faster loading. Mmm, just
> thinking back to UIView and how it handles maps, and even the split maps
> may display too small to be useful. I use xastir now and it enables
> zooming in on a map which produces excellent topographic detail that's
> even hard to see on paper maps.
> 
> The other "inconvenience" is you need to know map names to be able to
> "find" them.
> 
> I have the east coast from Brisbane to Melbourne, and out to about
> Canberra. That requires 22 maps, which have become 138 map segments
> (most maps become 6 segments but some special, or extended maps require
> 9. Sydney and Bairnsdale are examples). In jpg format thats 500MB of maps.
> 
> Colin, If you want I'll send you a segment for where you live, with its
> inf file, and you can see how it looks. If the list will accept a 3MB
> file I'll post that information here for general assessment.
> 
> If Geoff wants to host what I have on Ozaprs, or elsewhere, I'll send
> him a disc with the segmented maps and both inf and geo files. I'd host
> them here for ftp download but my outgoing is only 128kbs (for now). I
> can still host them but he upload would be slow (insert the correct
> number of o's in sloooow).
> 
> Ray vk2tv
> 
> Colin Matten wrote:
> > I'm after a hi res map covering Australia for use with UI-View. All of
> > the maps I have (both paper and electronic) aren't suitable for use with
> > UI-View. UI-View requires a map with no projection (parallel and linear
> > lat/long).
> >
> >
> > I've had a look at the maps on www.aprs.net.au, these don't have a lot
> > of details on them.
> >
> >
> > Maps can be emailed to vk2kcm at gmail.com
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Colin
> >
> > VK2KCM
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