[OZAPRS] Off line maps for xastir

[Andrew Rich]

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Andrew Rich

On 16/09/2012, at 9:50 AM, Ray Wells <vk2tv at exemail.com.au> wrote:

> Liz,
> 
> I generally use the 1:250000 topo maps from Geoscience Australia, unless I want some extra local detail and then I use a few scanned 1:100000 topos.
> 
> With the 1:250000 I have subdivided each map into 0.5 degree (mostly) squares using photoshop or similar to help the maps load more quickly. This gives me <mapname>_1.jpg, <mapname>_2.jpg, etc.
> 
> Ray vk2tv
> 
> 
> On 16/09/12 09:14, Liz wrote:
>> What do people use for off-line maps in xastir?
>> 
>> Uplift-2 expected to fly Tuesday week, wotzup.com/2012/09/live-tv/ and
>> to be flying over and landing in areas which aren't covered by OSM
>> (since the removal of stuff which didn't meet the new licence) or FOSM,
>> which has the fuller data set.
>> I do have 'sid' format maps from NSW LPI of the topographic series
>> 1:100000 which can be exported to 'tif', and I do have the NATMAP raster
>> maps, but only to 1:250000.
>> 
>> The information in the http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:MAPS is sparse.
>> 
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