Re: [Viking-devel] using scanned maps with Viking

[Quy T. <qto...@gm...>]

cla...@fr... wrote:
> I know a very user-friendly shareware to calibrate one's own scanned maps, but
> it exists only for WINDOWS (http://www.gpstrack.com/).
>   
I don't use shareware myself (for principle reasons. I don't like to
use any software that I can't read its codes and find out what it does),
but I intend to support any calibration file format if I have enough
info about it.
> Until you develop the feature, I am perfectly willing to edit my own calibration
> text file. Could you please give me the format of that file, or point me to a
> site holding this info ?
>   
First I will find time to check in the codes (hopefully during next week)
and then I will post the format to this list. The format is quite simple
(in xml) but creating files by hand (be warned) is pain in the neck (I
did it, so I know). And more pain, the format may be changed in future.

If you use google earth,  it may be good to know that googleearth overlay
file format (kmz) will be supported. They have somewhat reasonably good
map calibration facilities there.

Quy