[Xastir] Making better looking maps

[Gerry Creager]

Yes.  O'Reilley's Google Map Hacks is a good place to start.

For our purposes, I don't think this is an issue but positional accuracy 
may be an issue using Google data since they don't verify that, but use 
data they obtain/purchase as-is, with the caveat that the user is 
responsible for such things.  When I consider this, it makes sense. 
It's a big enough task for someone or some organization to undertake for 
a local region.  It's a completely different order of magnitude for a 
global scale, and using satellite and aircraft-derived imagery, 
especially if you don't have access to the nadir-offset information.

I'm being reminded of these issues as I just finished an NSF proposal 
looking at satellite calibration/validation ("Cal/Val") and off-axis 
nadir pointing is a big factor in cal/val and operational use.

gerry

Andrew Rich wrote:
> So what do we need to do ?
> 
> Learn about google map API's ?
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xastir-bounces at xastir.org [mailto:xastir-bounces at xastir.org]On
> Behalf Of Stephen - K1LNX
> Sent: Saturday, 25 August 2007 10:31 AM
> To: Curt Mills, WE7U
> Cc: Xastir User mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps
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> 
> That would be *AWESOME*
> 
> Perhaps my overloaded brain and willingness to learn may start towards
> this...... umm yea right.... lol
> 
> tnx and 73's
> Stephen
> K1LNX
> 
> On 8/24/07, Curt, WE7U < archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Stephen - K1LNX wrote:
>>
>>> One question to the dev's. Is it possible to integrate google maps into
>>> Xastir?
>> It's been talked about.  Gerry Creager did some asking of the Google
>> guys and they said something to the effect of:  "Yes, please use
>> it!".
>>
>> Just need a developer with a bit of free time and the desire to look
>> into it.
>>
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