Good evening all, I've just signed up to the mailing list & hope I'll be able to get some help from you! In terms of cartography, I'm pretty much a total beginner, although I have been using paper maps for more than 50 years.
OK, so here is my problem: one of my hobbies(?) is to work as a debriefer at Hot Air Balloon Championships. Typically, the organisers provide both paper and Oziexplorer maps. As I use Fedora on my laptop, I would like to see if I can beat one of the open source cartography apps into doing pretty much the same sort of things as Ozi. For the next competition, I have a .jpg file of the scanned Luxembourg 1:50000 map. As QLandkarteGT won't accept .jpg, I've used GIMP to convert it to a .tif file with no compression. I can get this file into the map window by doing edit/create map. Difficulty number 1: how do I persuade QlandkarteGT to read UTM coordinates from the map? I've tried to Georeference the map, but don't seem to get anywhere.... If I set map projection to WGS84 & UTM 31 then click on grid tool, I can set one cross point, distance to 2000 (grid lines are 2Km apart), click on OK. Wait ages! Then I get thousands of little orange balloons which don't seem to tie up with anything... (BTW, until 2 weeks ago, I never heard of "georeferencing"....) I tried the online help pages but they don't appear to go into this kind of detail - at least, I couldn't find anything! Hope someone will be able to give me a push in the right direction! Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
