[ gpsdrive ] How do I display scanned map?

[Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)]

On Thursday 19 July 2007 20:35, George Farris wrote:
> I have scanned a map and tried to import it into gpsdrive but it won't
> display.
>
> I have scanned the map and scaled it to 1280x1024 in png format.
> I have and entry for it in map_koord.txt like so:
>
> top_111.png 48.69515 124.56899 100000

I'm not sure; but can you try saving it as gif?

> The map and the map_koord.txt is in ~/.gpsdrive and I am running version
> 2.0.9 on Ubuntu Feisty.
>
> The "Map Manager" menu entry is greyed out, there seems to be no way to
> select the map I just scanned.

As what I remember this is only switched on in some of the debug modes.

> Thanks have been through all the FAQ's etc.

If you like to try the new svn Version. There the mapkoords should be at:
~/.gpsdrive/maps/map_koord.txt

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