[ gpsdrive ] Selecting map scale

[John Blackwood]

It wasn't. I ended up playing around in gpsdriverc and when I restarted
gpsdrive it worked properly. I unfortunately do not know what I changed in
gpsdriverc.

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:

> John Blackwood wrote:
> > > > How do I change the map scale that gpsdrive
> > > > displays? The "<<" and ">>" buttons only seem to
> > > > change the slider at the bottom of the window - not
> > > > actually change the currently displayed map.
> Hamish:
> > > that changes the target map scale. if it can find a
> > > map near that map scale covering the current area it will use
> > > it, otherwise it will fall back on the next closest (which
> > > may not be a close scale at all, depending on what's available).
> > > once you move into an area which is covered by map of a scale
> > > close to your target scale, it will automatically change over
> > > to that.
> John:
> > That's what I thought, so I downloaded the area map in
> > every zoom level available using gpsfetchmap.pl -w "waypoint" -a
> > 10 -u kilometers -sc "3950-47400000". Still it won't zoom out
> > unless I move the map to an area where I don't have a 1:2950 scale
> > map.
>
> is "auto best map" enabled?
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> Hamish
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John Blackwood
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