Calibration with Memory Map 2004

Will · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 09, 2003 Posts: 44

Hi,

I have my BT Socket GPS on order, and am finally joining the GPS world which I'm very excited about. Memory Map 2004 looks absolutely excellent, and I'm going to buy just the South East maps (it's not clear whether that includes London or not)

I'm going to Australia and was hoping I'd be able to scan in some maps of Sydney and various other places. Can anyone give me a brief intro as to what calibration actually is, whether Memory Map can do it, and how it works?

Many thanks

Will

MikeB · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 11:30 pm Post subject:

Will,

I am afraid that due to the restrictions placed on Memory-Map by Ordnance Survey you are not allowed to calibrate maps with MM2004.
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Will · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 09, 2003 Posts: 44

Even non-OS maps, Mike?

Will

MikeB · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 11:47 pm Post subject:

Sorry Will the OS place a lot of seamingly stupid and officious limits on what you can and cant do with thier maps.

The three main ones are:
1. No scanning or calibration of any maps
2. No software application upgrades which add new features.
3. No download to PC of maps over 1600 Km2

Which is why we have the ridiculous situation of having to have 2 sets of applications 1 for MM2003 and 1 for MM2004 maps. Companies like Memory Map are really going to get a lot of bad publicity from this when the real culprit is OS.

My suggestion is that you write to OS requesting the reasoning behind their policy. Why when you have spent your hard earned cash to get a valid licensed product they force you to buy the whole lot again.

I could rant on all night here.
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Will · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 09, 2003 Posts: 44

That's absolutely ridiculous. I don't see how using other company's maps, or even "home-made" scans of maps could affect their reputation - if it was their reputation they feared being obstructed. Well they've lost a(nother) customer - I need a topographical solution which allows me to scan in maps for my holiday, the sources of which I've yet to find. I suppose Oziexplorer would be best.

What a great shame - those 3D maps did look great

Will

TigerMoff · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 22, 2003 Posts: 20

If you download the Memory-map Navigator (free) from the American website www.memory-map.com you will be able to scan in your own maps but you will not be able to load OS maps into it. You can still purchase 2003 software which will allow you to self scan.

chris_de_wet · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 1:14 pm Post subject:

I have recently bought Memory Map Navigator 2004 having been encouraged to do so by Mike Barrett's excellent review.

I did this in the knowledge that I would not be able to calibrate maps.

May I suggest a workaround.

I have used a great piece of software called GPS Utility for a couple of years. One of my interests in using GPS is to investigate the routes of old/derelict canals.

This I do by downloading sections of 1890 vintage OS maps from www.old-maps.co.uk, joining these sections using Panavue Image Assembler, then calibrating these maps using GPS Utility (www.gpsu.co.uk).

Tracks, routes and waypoints are easily exported from GPS Utility in Maptech format and imported into Memory Map. (Just make sure that the datum in GPS Utility is set to WGS84 before calibration - you can use Memory Map itself to provide highly accurate calibration data.)

It works a treat!

Magrat_Garlick · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 11, 2004 Posts: 14

I've been downloading both 1850 maps from the Old-Map site and the 25k maps from OS's GetaMap site and calibrating them using the American version of Navigator getting the co-ordinates from the OS version of Navigator with a 50k map loaded - works perfectly!

Magrat

maubp · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject:

chris_de_wet · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:31 pm Post subject:

Peter

No - I just wanted to create overlays to import into Memory Map.

I don't believe that map import & calibration is allowed with the OS version (sadly!).

Chris

maubp · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 8:05 pm Post subject:

Thanks Chris, thats what I thought you would say Sad

It would have been nice to use Memory-Maps scyned scrolling feature to compare the current OS map against something from www.old-maps.co.uk or any other scanned map.

I have some of the OS's seventh series maps of part of Wales which are just over 50 years old. Its interesting to trace the lines of old railways, which quite often have been turned into paths or cycle routes.

On the other hand, the Memory Map 2004 OS demo they sent me on CD will definitly import my .BMP maps, but does not seem to allow calibration! Confusing!
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maubp · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 10:04 pm Post subject:

Privateer · Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject:

Hi,

MrT · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 6:45 pm Post subject:

Download the American Version of MM2004 and calibrate the (non OS)map using this. Once the map is calibrated you can then use it with the MM2004 OS version.

Of course you could always manually calibrate the map as described here:

http://www.memory-map.co.uk/downloads/PDF/mm_tsb7_A%20guide%20to%20self%20scan%20maps.pdf

chris_de_wet · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:47 pm Post subject:

Excellent tip, MrT ...

The downloaded US version of MM2004 is just a demo, isn't it?

Will that do the job? Please clarify the exact steps required - do you still have to do the manual calibration that you refer to?

Thanks ...

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