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On 4/18/2011 8:13 PM, Andrew Rich wrote:
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Hello</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Going on a boat - have road maps
but no internetr access</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">What is the best option ? Maybe
jsut record NMEA and convert when i get back ?</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Need a simple mapping solution -
made up a map for UI-VIEW</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Coral sea - east of Australia</font></div>
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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. <br>
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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!<br>
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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. <br>
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A review of "Universal Maps Downloader" with many samples is here on
my website:<br>
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. <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wa8lmf.net/MapCaptureTool"><http://wa8lmf.net/MapCaptureTool></a><br>
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Skype: WA8LMF<br>
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===== Vista & Win7 Install Issues for UI-View and Precision
Mapping =====<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/UIview_Notes.htm#VistaWin7">http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/UIview_Notes.htm#VistaWin7</a><br>
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*** HF APRS over PSK63 ***<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net/APRS_PSK63/index.htm">http://wa8lmf.net/APRS_PSK63/index.htm</a><br>
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"APRS 101" Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net/DigiPaths">http://wa8lmf.net/DigiPaths</a> <br>
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