Re: [Talk-ca] Amateur Radio Maps...

2011-12-14 Thread Connors, Bernie (SNB)
/ -Original Message- From: Colin McGregor [mailto:colin.mc...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 2011-12-13 16:41 To: talk-ca Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Amateur Radio Maps... On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Stewart C. Russell scr...@gmail.com wrote: If anyone's confused about what these maps would look like, I

Re: [Talk-ca] Amateur Radio Maps...

2011-12-14 Thread Pierre Béland
Colin Geoweb Guru at url http://www.equal-area-maps.com/howto.php shows how to create Equal Area maps. It shows various mapping projection with Openlayers. This might interest you. See also http://www.geowebguru.com/articles/242-polar-maps-and-projections-part-1-overview

Re: [Talk-ca] Amateur Radio Maps...

2011-12-13 Thread Colin McGregor
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Stewart C. Russell scr...@gmail.com wrote: If anyone's confused about what these maps would look like, I have some examples here: http://glaikit.org/2011/12/11/not-really-getting-the-azimuthal-equidistant-projection-right/ They were made with the not-exactly

[Talk-ca] Amateur Radio Maps...

2011-12-12 Thread Colin McGregor
Last Saturday I was at a party co-hosted by Richard Weait (thanks), where the topic of maps for amateur radio use came up. A topic that has been of interest to me is amateur radio and disaster response. So, I am looking for software that will generate two maps from Open Street Map data: - An

Re: [Talk-ca] Amateur Radio Maps...

2011-12-12 Thread Stewart C. Russell
If anyone's confused about what these maps would look like, I have some examples here: http://glaikit.org/2011/12/11/not-really-getting-the-azimuthal-equidistant-projection-right/ They were made with the not-exactly free AZ_PROJ, a utility written entirely in PostScript. For a great (but