[OZAPRS] Fwd: [aprssig] Simple mapping - NMEA

Andrew Rich vk4tec at tech-software.net
Tue Apr 19 19:37:17 EST 2011



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Andrew Rich

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> From: "Andrew Rich" <vk4tec at tech-software.net>
> Date: 19 April 2011 19:18:47 AEST
> To: "Stephen H. Smith" <wa8lmf2 at aol.com>, "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at tapr.org>
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] Simple mapping - NMEA
> Reply-To: Andrew Rich <vk4tec at tech-software.net>, TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig at tapr.org>
> 

> Stephen
>  
> I needed to overlay it with google earth to get more accurate lats and lons
>  
> Does the program compensate for the tiles  dimensions ?
>  
> in the requested lat and lon ?
>  
> - Andrew -
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stephen H. Smith
> To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 3:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] Simple mapping - NMEA
> 
> On 4/18/2011 8:13 PM, Andrew Rich wrote:
>> 
>> Hello
>>  
>> Going on a boat - have road maps but no internetr access
>>  
>> What is the best option ? Maybe jsut record NMEA and convert when i get back ?
>>  
>> Need a simple mapping solution - made up a map for UI-VIEW
>>  
>> Coral sea - east of Australia
>>  
>> 
>  
> 
> Use UIview as a "map player" rather than as an APRS client.    Any map image (scanned/photographed with a high-res digital camera/downloaded from the Internet) in GIF, BMP or PNG format with a pair of known lat/long calibration points on it can be displayed inside UIview. You can cause a cross-hairs to be displayed at your own position from a local GPS.   
> 
> A useful tool to download already calibrated images from Google Maps, Yahoo Maps or Microsoft Bing is "Universal Maps Downloader".  This shareware utility    can download any number of map images to cover a specified lat/long-bounded box, and then stitch them together to form a far larger single image, ready to use in UIivew.  You can create images far larger than the small window you see online on Google and Yahoo maps.  I have created large-area hi-res maps that involved over a thousand tiles!
> 
> UIview can handle images far larger (in terms of pixels) than the size of the window displaying them on your PC.   UIview then becomes a scrollable viewport showing part of a far larger image.       I have used maps of over 2500 x 3500 pixels in UIview.  The key is to reduce the number of colors in the image to only 256 or even 16 colors.      
> 
> A review of "Universal Maps Downloader" with many samples is here on my website:
> 
> .     <http://wa8lmf.net/MapCaptureTool>
> 
> 
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