[aprssig] Live APRS mapping in the UK. NG :-(

[Dave Baxter]

I have tried that very process a couple of times, but for some reason, I
can never get "hand crafted" .inf files to show up properly.  The
lat/long info seems odd, not sure if the doc's are wrong, but I always
get a huge offset East/West whenever I make a file.   Even manually
copying a known good one causes problems to the otherwise known good
map, so maybe things like cr/lf vs cr only, who knows....

Crabbing the image is not a problem (PaintShopPro) or getting it into a
form Ui-View can handle (also PaintShopPro).  It's them damd .inf files.
One for the UI-View list, one day.

Ti's the weekend now, and many other things to do, so no time to play
with all this, this time..

73..

	Dave 'WBX.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org 
> [mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org] On Behalf Of Curt Mills
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 5:34 PM
> To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [aprssig] Live APRS mapping in the UK. NG :-(
> 
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Dave Baxter wrote:
> 
> > Not sure how much use shapefiles would be to a ui-view user.
> 
> Well, not directly, but they would be directly usable in 
> another APRS app.
> 
> WRT UI-View though, you could always convert them to 
> something that it could handle.  Run them through a program 
> to create an image, capture that image and make a .inf file 
> for it, and you're good to go.  This process could probably 
> be automated or semi-automated as well.
> 
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