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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I think it was a decimal / DDMMSS
issue</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=vk4tec@tech-software.net
href="mailto:vk4tec@tech-software.net">Andrew Rich</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=wa8lmf2@aol.com
href="mailto:wa8lmf2@aol.com">Stephen H. Smith</A> ; <A title=aprssig@tapr.org
href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">TAPR APRS Mailing List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 19, 2011 7:18
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [aprssig] Simple mapping -
NMEA</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Stephen</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I needed to overlay it with google earth to get
more accurate lats and lons</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Does the program compensate for the tiles
dimensions ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>in the requested lat and lon ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Andrew - </FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=wa8lmf2@aol.com href="mailto:wa8lmf2@aol.com">Stephen H. Smith</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=aprssig@tapr.org
href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">TAPR APRS Mailing List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 19, 2011 3:26
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [aprssig] Simple mapping -
NMEA</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>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>
<DIV> </DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR><BR>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><BR>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><BR>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><BR>A
review of "Universal Maps Downloader" with many samples is here on my
website:<BR><BR>. <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E
href="http://wa8lmf.net/MapCaptureTool"><http://wa8lmf.net/MapCaptureTool></A><BR><BR>
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<BR>--<BR><BR>Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
<BR>EchoLink Node: WA8LMF or
14400 [Think bottom of the 2M
band]<BR>Skype: WA8LMF<BR>Home
Page: <A
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=====<BR> <A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
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HF APRS over PSK63 ***<BR> <A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
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101" Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating <BR>
<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
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