UK Base Map

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:54 am

Download the UK colour2 files:

http://webpages.charter.net/wistorms/UK/

Post by **carseman** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 7:35 pm

Weasel.
I like the maps a lot. May I use the UK Colour2 on my site, and if so any chance of maps for Scotland and Eorope Central?

How did you create them?

Chris

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:21 am

Glad you liked it, Chris! Use it however you see fit. I sent you an email about the other maps.

Pat

mike01 · Post by **mike01** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:02 am

Hi all,

I am looking for a map of europe similar to http://www.carseweather.co.uk/jpeg/eurotemp.jpg .

I would appreciate any links anyone may have.

Thanks,

Michael

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:59 pm

http://www.wistorms.net/michael/europe-ortho.zip

You can also download this planetary map which will give similar results for other areas of the globe:
http://www.wistorms.net/planetaryZips/8 ... r_bump.zip

Pat

mike01 · Post by **mike01** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:36 am

Thanks Weasel,

The planetary map imports and works great. Would I be right in guessing that the larger versions are too big to handle easily?

I have yet to figure out how to use the europe map, is the dmf file used in some way, I can't find any reference to that in the help file?

Thanks again,

Michael

mike01 · Post by **mike01** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:00 am

2nd post........

I have found reference to the dmf file in the manual and can now import it as a base map for europe ok.

Thanks again,

Michael

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:57 pm

Mike,

The 16k maps will work well for map scales of about 1000nm, and a map size of 800X600 or so. They will import with 512mb of ram. So if you wanted to do a basemap for say Germany or Spain, this would be the way to go.

There will always be some distortion of map quality do to the transformation from a "flat" map to a "round" map...this is unavoidable, but if you are able to import them, the scales mentioned will look fairly good!

I should have mentioned what the dmf file was for, sorry about that! You figured it out anyway:) You can use the save map function with the planetary maps by first clicking copy marking onto basemap, then save basemap. This will save the displayed map as a bitmap w/ dmf file, and it will eliminate gobbling up of the huge amount of ram required for planetary imports each time:)

Pat

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:03 am

Michael,

I was wondering if you had any connection difficulties whilst downloading any of the maps? I'm assuming you are from Europe, and a couple of people from over your way have mentioned this problem to me.

Thanks!

Pat

mike01 · Post by **mike01** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:35 am

Hi Pat,

Thanks for all the extra info.

I did in fact download quite a few maps without any problems.

I got some errors on the 128MB file but was able to resume ok.

Thanks again,

Michael