[Xastir] snapshot.geo

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

The projection the Tigermaps use is problemmatic.

I'll go back thru my notes and see if we can decide how to fix that.

gerry

Orrin Winton wrote:
> Latest cvs works great at taking snapshots of
> online tigermaps.  (win32 cygwin)
> 
> One thing though:  when i took a snapshot of 
> northern California, and another of central California,
> and loaded them both, they didn't fit together 100%.
> There was both a vertical and a horizontal error
> where the two maps joined.
> 
> I can live with this for now; just wondering if i can
> fix that by tweaking the .geo file, or if tweaking
> (so they'll fit) will just create lat/long discrep-
> ancies elsewhere on the map.  
> 
> orrin wn1z
> 
> --
> 
> --------- Original Message ---------
> 
> DATE: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 20:16:50 
> From: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
> To: Orrin Winton <oakenshieldd at lycos.com>
> Cc: xastir at xastir.org
> 
> 
>>On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Orrin Winton wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Will it allow me to take one snapshot of an
>>>online tigermap, auto-create the .geo file to
>>>go with it, then i'll be able to use that 
>>>frozen map in the future?
>>
>>Yes.
>>
>>
>>
>>>So if i want to , i could move that pair of
>>>.png and .geo to a directory under /maps/ to
>>>use it.  Then take another "snapshot pair" and
>>>move THOSE out of the /tmp/ directory to /maps/
>>>and so on?
>>
>>Yes.
> 
> 
> 
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