Re: A How To - OpenOrieenteeringMapper through OOM to PurplePen

Posted by epeesharkey on
URL: http://maprun.308.s1.nabble.com/A-How-To-OpenOrieenteeringMapper-through-OOM-to-PurplePen-tp936p993.html

Hi @Michael

thanks for those -- helpful comments.

OCAD - yes I am using v12 and writing v10 was an error.

"If there is a general shifting of all controls something is going wrong.": Thanks for the tip about turning the KMZ layer back on. Curiously it does seem there is a consistent ~5m shift to N on each control c/w the KMZ map. Because the KMZ map doesn't conform so closely to 'reality' then the actual shift can be a bit different and in a different direction, so that the actual impact of the shift may in fact not be material, or may be hoovered up by any general adjustment in GE.

In fact one of my club colleagues, who knows more about mapping than I do recently reported an issue with PPen -- I think is he working off a map already geo-reffed, possibly from Ocad. He says there is a consistent N-shift in PPen output, consistent with the scale of the map (he reckons ~5 m for 1:10000).

"I, like you, have my own tools to convert an XML to KML courses so I have not used the O-Util in a long time - I should have checked.  " I blush to hear what I did described as a tool -- it was a dirty hack that worked but only does one thing XML v 3.0 to KML. Thanks for the explanation about the XML v2, that might be useful sometime. You are right about the STA1 and FIN1 -- need to be changed to S1 and F1 for MapRun -- they also need to be at the start and end of the KML, I'm not sure if PPen always writes the XML in that style (maybe it will depend on the order they are created).

Your tools with the ability to reverse-engineer the PPen XML once the Google Earth 'corrections' are made sounds very useful. However I wonder how you can do that since PPen doesn't seem to allow 'import' of XML? Are you editing in a text editor instead?