Glad to help ! Let me know if you need anything... That's the best way i've found so far but i'm still working on it...
Another tip for you feeblebrox, you can also load from GM all the .map files from a folder, gather them into a “group”, edit the group to crop all white collars from the maps at once (either autocrop, which sometimes doesn't work well, or pixel based crops) then apply a nice shading of ASTER DEM on the maps (using multiply with an atlas shader and fiddling a bit with the different settings), then run the export of the tiles... once you got it, it's really just computer process time, the manual part is actually quite short... i combine also 25k maps up to level 15 or 16 with orthophotos at level 17 or more... once again huge possibilities.
Of course it was easier for me before with OziCE, i've gathered quite a useful collection of topographic maps over the years, from different countries i often go to, i used to copy the 1000 .map files along with their rasters on the SD card, and nothing else to worry about, the indexing was maybe a little bit long on first run but then it was super fast... life was easy by then, lol.
Now the Ozi guy... nobody knows what is he up to, he served an experimental alpha version a couple of months ago, barely usable, he doesn't communicate much and it's not a good sign... ah yeah the only thing he has done was completely changing the structure of the Ozfx3 format in order to screw other developers that was trying to make a decent alternative to Ozi (i'm thinking about Androzic)... good lesson of fair play !
Of course i miss the good old OziCE, and it bothers me having to spend a lot of time on converting my once ready to use map collection on other programs, i've read all the discussions here about supporting Ozf format, the first thing i've noticed is that it would require the use of an external library and Menion was not really willing to do so, which i totally understand, that's the reason why i haven't insisted on that particular function in the forums...
I was also thinking... what if he does ? Well, reading the Ozf format is one thing, interpreting all the different grids and datum is another... right now i'm really using a lot all the following projections and datums : UTM with ETRS89 and ED50 for Spain, all kind of Lambert II and Lambert 93 with corresponding NTF and RGF93 for France, Swiss grid with CH1903 for Switzerland, OS Grid with OSGB36 for UK... i use also a little bit less maps from other countries like Italy, Germany... and i don't even know exactly the projection they're in... So to sum up, supporting Ozf would be cool, but supporting in only with mercator and WGS84 would be completely useless (since we still would have to reproject all the maps), and i don't even wanna think about the huge amount of work it would represent of adapting all those transformations of projections and grids in a program like Locus and even with time i think it would lead the development of the app in a way that is the exact opposite of where it goes now.
Ok i post the message in this thread which is not really the place, it should belong more to the thread “which map format to support” but one thing leading to another i just wanted to share my thoughts about this and since we were talking first about georef raster images, it is not that much out of context ;-) I would be glad to know what you guys think about this.
Cheers,
Cseu.
