Windows maps download tool for MapThis! by in7ane

[in7ane]

I've added the ability to create Google Earth overlays from GPSFS maps - Set Dir, View, GPSFS to Site Dir (creating a local set of tiles) and pointing directly at the online tiles - * tab in the bottom left, click GE Overlay. This could be useful to check the accuracy of various mapping sources (assuming that Google Earth is correct, or comparing a few to see which ones agree).

For example:

http://www.in7ane.com/psp/posts/MapABC.kml
MapABC (the map source used by google.cn) seems to be significantly offset from Google Earth (this may be due to a different projection/grid in China, that was not converted correctly).

http://www.in7ane.com/psp/posts/YahooSat.kml
Yahoo Satellite is slightly offset from Google Earth.

http://www.in7ane.com/psp/posts/VEMap.kml
Virtual Earth Map only has a few of the main roads which seem to generally correspond to the roads layer in Google Earth.

http://www.in7ane.com/psp/posts/GoogleSat.kml
Google Satellite corresponds exactly to Google Earth, as expected.

Note: the KML files contain links to tiles hosted on the various mapping services (not the actual image tiles) in order to provide an illustration and a way to evaluate the quality of the services offered.

BarfHappy, that's right - google seems to have a limit on how many satellite tiles an IP can downlaod in a given time.

magixx, see if you can view the map after generating it (click View and/or Test in GMDL) to see if the map is ok, if it is try a ready made map and see if that loads in Map This! ok: http://www.in7ane.com/psp/maps_various/ if it doesn't it's a memory card/psp problem.

DennyPSP, k soshaleniyu da - maksimalniy razmer Bitmap v .NET ogranichen.

[MemorX]

Hi In7ane,

Would it be possible to download maps from:

http://kart.gulesider.no/kart/index.c

With your GMDL tool?

I would guess that Norway is no priority, but would you consider making support for this site?
I like this one because it has all the speed cameras on it :P

[in7ane]

MemorX, not unless it's done by hand (it's not a tiled map like google and maps.live.com) - if there's a source/viewer that is I should be able to implement it (in firefox, Tools > Page Info > Media tab if you can see the map being made up of 256x256, or possibly similar, tiles).

[MemorX]

MemorX, not unless it's done by hand (it's not a tiled map like google and maps.live.com) - if there's a source/viewer that is I should be able to implement it (in firefox, Tools > Page Info > Media tab if you can see the map being made up of 256x256, or possibly similar, tiles).

I see, how about a map service like http://www.hvor.no ?

It seems to be buildt with tiles (256 x 256).. Its not as good as the first one, but it would still be better than Google and the others.

Thanks for your answer!

[DennyPSP]

To in7ane

пасиб..скажи а реально сделать на выбор тип файлов для сохранения карты с Google?
не PNG а JPG допустим..Уж очень большая карта в PNG получается...

[in7ane]

DennyPSP, prosto konvertirovat v jpeg razmer silno ne izmenyaet (naprimer 4.57MB vmesto 5.22MB) no silno ponejayet katchestvo (skoree vsego oni ushe silno optimizirovali png). Ya posmotryu esli mojno zadat kakienibud compression settings chtobi eto ulich$#@!.

MemorX, hvor.no is tile based but does not correspond with google tiles (so you won't get GPS support), for example:

http://mt1.google.com/mt?n=404&v=w2.46&x=16&y=9&zoom=12

http://webcache.gisline.no/?x1=0&y1=...524288&s=0&l=2

any other sources? Alternatively it may be easier to achieve your desired result with POIs.

Jocke, missed your messages on MSN - I am still getting around to finishing up Swedish geodata (but it will get done eventually).


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Israeli Maps
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Neither Google nor Virtual Earth have detailed road maps of Israel, and the ones I've been able to find on the web are either flash, rendered sections, or incompatible tiles - has anyone come across anything that looks like it could work with Map This! ?

[natan_berlin]

Map of Israel can be captured form the following website:
emap.co.il
I dont know how to use this map site with the psp

[nntb]

i cant seem to get it to work right...

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/2959/18760159dn3.jpg

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/449/35673386ck1.jpg

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/4293/16480576rl4.jpg

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/1382/68607199rx3.jpg

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/7275/99903431mq2.jpg

my problum is i cant get it to zoom right... it zooms in to much for me to capture both citys.

and when i zoom out it just looks wrong the overlays are gone. >.<

also its realy tough to use on 1024x768 rez it reuqires some higher rez that my laptop cant handle... >.<

[zyrson]

Hi prexcellent program :thumbup:
Can someone tale me how to put UK postcodes and how to enter it in address locastor

[Mystheryman]

@in7ane
Do you plan an Option to small down the map size?
For example you can convert down the downloades Tiles (less colors for example). This would shrink down the map size.
I tried this with IrfanView Batchconverter - but the program crashes while loading more than 65000 tiles.