Chapter 6 Viewing Maps

Chapter 6 Viewing Maps

II Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 What is GpsPrune for . .1 1.2 Example screenshots . .2 1.3 Available languages . .4 1.4 Terminology . .5 1.5 What’s new . .7 2 How to get it 8 2.1 Licence and cost . .8 2.2 Available platforms . .8 2.3 How to download . .9 2.4 Versions . 11 2.5 How to run it . 12 2.6 Dependencies . 14 2.7 Downloading the source code . 15 3 Main window 17 3.1 Components and controls . 17 3.2 Menu commands . 21 3.3 Toolbar buttons . 22 3.4 Keyboard shortcuts . 22 4 Loading data 24 4.1 Loading from file . 24 4.2 From Wikipedia . 28 4.3 Entering coordinates directly . 30 4.4 From a GPS receiver . 31 4.5 From gpsies.com . 34 4.6 Appending or replacing . 35 5 Viewing data 36 5.1 Viewing a track . 37 5.2 Selecting a point . 38 5.3 Selecting a range . 40 5.4 Time estimation . 41 5.5 Weather forecasts . 44 6 Viewing maps 46 6.1 Enabling maps . 46 6.2 Selecting a different map server . 47 III 6.3 Adding a new map server . 49 6.4 Using a disk cache . 51 6.5 Viewing in a browser . 54 7 Settings 55 7.1 Appearance settings . 55 7.2 Language settings . 56 7.3 Program paths . 57 7.4 Saving settings . 58 7.5 Automatically saving settings . 59 8 Editing data 60 8.1 Deleting a point or range . 60 8.2 Undo . 61 8.3 Deleting field values . 62 8.4 Cutting and moving a range . 62 8.5 Reversing a range . 63 8.6 Splitting a track into segments . 63 8.7 Joining track segments together . 64 8.8 Reorganising waypoints . 66 8.9 Dragging a point . 67 8.10 Editing a point . 68 8.11 Adding a time offset . 69 8.12 Adding an altitude offset . 70 8.13 Merging files . 70 9 Data compression 71 9.1 Duplicate removal . 72 9.2 Nearby point removal . 73 9.3 Wacky point removal . 74 9.4 Singleton removal . 75 9.5 Douglas-Peucker compression . 75 9.6 Combining compression methods . 76 10 Creating data 77 10.1 Creating a single point . 77 10.2 Interpolating between points . 78 10.3 Averaging a set of points . 78 10.4 Dragging a new point . 79 10.5 Creating a series of points . 80 10.6 Looking up altitudes . 80 10.7 Faking timestamps . 82 11 Photos 83 11.1 Loading photos . 83 11.2 Photo details . 84 11.3 Linking a photo to a point . 85 11.4 Automatic correlation . 85 IV 11.5 Saving coordinates to Exif . 88 11.6 Saving photo thumbnails to Kmz . 90 11.7 Loading linked photos . 92 12 Audio files 93 12.1 Using the results . 93 12.2 Recording audio files . 94 12.3 Loading audio files . 94 12.4 Audio file details . 94 12.5 Connecting an audio file to a point . 95 12.6 Automatic correlation . 95 12.7 Loading linked audio files . 97 13 Saving data 98 13.1 Saving to a file . 98 13.2 Sending to a GPS receiver . 102 13.3 Uploading to Gpsies . 104 13.4 Contributing to OSM / FOSM . 105 13.5 Charts . 107 13.6 Saving a map image . 109 14 3D views 111 14.1 Interactive 3D view . 111 14.2 POV-Ray . 115 14.3 SVG image . 118 15 Example use cases 120 15.1 Planning a trip . 120 15.2 Recording a track . ..

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