[ gpsdrive ] How do I display scanned map?

[Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)]

On Thursday 19 July 2007 20:58, George Farris wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-19-07 at 20:47 +0200, Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive
>
> Munich/Germany) wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I saved it to *.gif and edited the map_koord.txt file but how do I
> select the map?  There is nowhere to "open" a map or select it.  No menu
> or anything.

Your position has to be inside this map to be displayed. 
Try creating a waypoint with the same coordinates into way.txt and the switch 
to pos-mode and go to the waypoint.

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Joerg