[ gpsdrive ] Selecting map scale

[Hamish]

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?


Hamish