[ gpsdrive ] How do I display scanned map?

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:35:17AM -0700, 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

Judging by your email address, you are in British Columbia. In that
case, you may need a minus sign in from of the longitude. E.g.:

top_111.png 48.69515 -124.56899 100000

> 
> 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.

The version you have is ancient, but the last release. There is active
development now.

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