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On 11/12/2011 4:45 PM, Andrew Rich wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:99037CD9007A43628156A753E5003303@LocalHost"
type="cite">Not much good to us in Austalia !
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Actually, it could be! <br>
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Precision Mapping (both stand-alone and with UIview via the PMap
server plug-in) zooms out to display a Mercator map of the entire
world. National borders show and major cities show as point
objects. If you zoom in in an area other than the US or Canada, no
additional detail shows, but UIview/Precision Mapping WILL plot
APRS symbols at the correct points anywhere in the world on these
simple outline maps. <br>
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The Precision Mapping overlay-creation draw tools (that create
overlays that now work in PMap Server for UIview) would allow you to
draw in any amount of additional detail as vector objects that will
track the zoom levels. For example, you could add the outlines of
states, provinces, counties, etc. <br>
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You could draw in (or trace from an under-laid satellite image or
Google map image) roads of interest. Or capture them by actually
driving them with a GPS receiver attached to Precision Mapping.
Again, these will become smoothly-zoomable vector objects. <br>
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The ability to work with a variety of underlay images in various
formats (.GIF, .JPG, .PNG or ..BMP) means you could add screen caps
of Google or Yahoo! road maps (rather than satellite images) as
underlays of the (mostly blank) main Precision Mapping layer to add
road detail you didn't draw in. <br>
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Details of a nifty map capture tool that lets you tile dozens of
Google or Yahoo map screens into huge images covering large areas 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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Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com <br>
=== Now relocated from Pasadena, CA back to 8-land (East Lansing,
MI) ===<br>
Skype: WA8LMF<br>
Home Page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net">http://wa8lmf.net</a><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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