Hi All I also need paper maps on some occasions. Especially if we go for a multi-day MTB route.
Let's focus on QMS first: What's your base map? I guess a raster map .. ;-) There's a golden rule if you use a raster map for printing: Set the Projection/Datum of the mapview from you print to be the same as the raster map. eg.If your source raster map is a UTM28/ETRS89 projected and the mapview is as default lat/lon WGS84, a deformation has to be made, and that will mess up your impression a bit, especially texts, fine lines... It doesn't matter if you use a source map with a higher pixel resolution if you don't follow this rule. Same with resolution, if possible, try to print at the same resolution the raster map has. ( you can know about it with gdalinfo). This second one is not so important like the first one Another hint: Carlos the guy who contributed the hiking time models, says that he gets beetter results exporting to png instead of jpg. And when all this is not enoughfor me, ... I jump to QGIS . ( I am not telling to instal QGIS only for this task, but I use QGIS every day, so it is an easy way for me, and may be someone else is in a similar situation) First I prepare with QMS all the stuff (tracks, wp, ...), then I save it as gpx In Qgis I already have a couple of "layer styles" to port gpx track colors to linestyles, and wp symbol labels to qgis symbols, so as soon as I load the gpx I can see it "styled". The funny thing is that you can even hold both QMS and QGIS open, edit the gpx on QMS and see on QGIS. Since QMS does the work on his own db you can modify anything and when you do "save" you will see the changes on Qgis. For the basemap you can use the same raster map you use in QMS. For printing I have an A3 template with a grid, scalebar,.... Here you dont need to make a fence on the canvas to select the area to print for every sheet. Here it is the inverse way, you drag the map on the A3 template to frame the area you are interested in, this way it is very quick and easy to evaluate how you are going to distribute the sheets before printing. Usually I save the sheets as pdf and a friend takes care of printing. Finally, in QMS we print the "project summary" with the wps ordered along the route to get the roadbook. This QMS-QGIS marriage is not for most normal users, but if you know something about qgis, or if you think you are going to do it very often it is worth the jump. HTH :-) El vie., 24 abr. 2020 a las 16:19, Detlev Zundel (<[email protected]>) escribió: > Hi Rainer, > > > For this part of the job there is a nice tool: > > > > https://sgelb.github.io/demo/mapline > > > > It is in "demo" status since longtime but it works perfectly. It > > automatically splits the map along a GPX track into pages for > > printing. However, map detail is rather low. > > Thanks for sharing the link - this is indeed a very cool tool! > > Best wishes > Detlev > > -- > Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be > unsuit- > able for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), > and ad- > vanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors). > /xkcd.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Qlandkartegt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users >
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