Feedback/bugs/requests

First off I'm not happy I had to signup to commercial spam just to use this forum. However, I have given a fake email address, so I won't actually be getting any of it!

Anyway, handy tool, finally got an OS maps converted into something I can use on Android (only ~400 to go!).

On to the issues:

1) Calibration file requested before image (by order in dialog), yet you have to select the image first.
2) Datum and projection requested before calibration file (by order in dialog), but when world file is selected the datum and projection are reset.
3) Can't accept world files with extension of .pgw (could you add pgw, pngw, jgw, jpgw, etc. as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file#The_filename)
4) Can't export to PNG, even with the jai imageio tools installed (despite the manual saying PNG has low compression making large maps the exported jpg map is much larger than the input image, perhaps because it is a PNG already).
5) If using transverse mercator (and probably others) could you save the values entered to be used as defaults next time.
6) Can you add British Grid to the list of projections (it's a transverse mercator with Latitude Origin: 49.0, Longitude Origin: -2.0, k: 0.9996012717, False East: 400000, False North: -100000).

Thanks,
Richard.

7) Batch mode doesn't work for my files... could it be made to work on world files + their image files (same name, extension can be worked out from world file extension/just guessed), and allow user to specify datum & projection for the batch, as they do for individual maps at the moment.

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rab wrote:First off I'm not happy I had to signup to commercial spam just to use this forum. However, I have given a fake email address, so I won't actually be getting any of it!

Anyway, handy tool, finally got an OS maps converted into something I can use on Android (only ~400 to go!).

On to the issues:

1) Calibration file requested before image (by order in dialog), yet you have to select the image first.
2) Datum and projection requested before calibration file (by order in dialog), but when world file is selected the datum and projection are reset.
3) Can't accept world files with extension of .pgw (could you add pgw, pngw, jgw, jpgw, etc. as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file#The_filename)
4) Can't export to PNG, even with the jai imageio tools installed (despite the manual saying PNG has low compression making large maps the exported jpg map is much larger than the input image, perhaps because it is a PNG already).
5) If using transverse mercator (and probably others) could you save the values entered to be used as defaults next time.
6) Can you add British Grid to the list of projections (it's a transverse mercator with Latitude Origin: 49.0, Longitude Origin: -2.0, k: 0.9996012717, False East: 400000, False North: -100000).

Thanks,
Richard.

Hi, Richard.

Thanks, MB.

You're right, The new way of registration was not there when I opened the forum. Perhaps it is time to find another site, I do not matter advertising on the forum web. But subscription to messages, ... I do not like.

The order of input is not always the same:
with ozi maps, first the calibration file, the rest should be automatic.
calibrating by hand, you can enter first datum and projection.
....

I will work with OruxMapsDesktop after the next beta, in some days.

orux