Hi Malte, the problem with the maps on DVD is their format. The "official" DVDs are products of the well known company EADS and the format is their proprietary format. EADS is very greedy and wants to have royalties from everyone supporting their format. The amount requested seems to be quite high. That is why QuoVadis? for example dropped the support for the maps.
Don't ask me why German authorities sell maps, payed by taxes, to the people, that paid the tax, in a proprietary format of a company that tries to benefit from that trade in every aspect. As a matter of fact EADS threatens to sew everyone who publishes a converter for their format. There is only one tool known to me that can convert the maps. And that is GlobalMapper. I never tried it, but it is told to be able to convert these maps into GeoTiff. Oliver -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 02:19:59 +0200 > Von: Malte Zacharias <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [Qlandkartegt-users] Looking for official german topographical maps > Hi folks, > > I would like to become a qlandkartegt user, I have successfully used it in > the > past with an unreferenced image and osm-stream maps. But for my line of > work > (sar dogs) I need to use offline maps, as internet connections are often > not or > only intermittently available for us during call-outs. > > I've tried to figure out how to use it and where to get such maps and > haven't > figured out anything really. > > For example german official maps are available by state from the > respective > governmental institutions, but it seems you have to pay by map sheet, > which > would mean a lot for the complete state. Or there are DVDs available > called > TOP25 containing the complete raster map 1:25000 but I believe these can't > be > displayed by qlandkartegt. > > I hope there is someone on this list, who can tell me what ways there are > for > me to get legal map data that I can use with qlandkartegt, that is both > detailed and reliable. > > I'd be grateful for any hints, thanks > Malte > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Got visibility? > Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. > Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? > http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html > _______________________________________________ > Qlandkartegt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
