Re: A How To - OpenOrieenteeringMapper through OOM to PurplePen

Posted by MichaelRaz on
URL: http://maprun.308.s1.nabble.com/A-How-To-OpenOrieenteeringMapper-through-OOM-to-PurplePen-tp936p994.html

I'll spend a bit of time to see if there is a basic shift.  May also be related to what coord system is being used and converted???  The PP developer just confirmed to me the issue with maps coming from OOM and in the OMAP format as I had found (with the workaround to save as OCAD).  This should be fixed in a week or so with a new PP release apparently.

"I'm not sure if PPen always writes the XML in that style".  The individual courses in the XML should be in the correct order although I realize that my tool does capture the start and finish then make sure they are in the right spot - maybe I ran into an issue at one point so made this adjustment - I don't remember! Nothing like a good text editor to do some cut and pasting.

"However I wonder how you can do that since PPen doesn't seem to allow 'import' of XML?" Likely did not explain my workflow well as you are correct.  Once I have the XML I use this as my Master course(s) file.  If I adjust some controls in the KML this is written back to the XML (in the control section) so when I re-export the individual courses from the adjusted XML all is good.  I do not feed this back to PP (and don't want to as the map may be good - just the GPS locations off).  If I really modify a control location then I can  change this in PP for a new map output but the XML and PP are separate.  Works well until you want to make a bunch of major changes then it is easier to go back to PP and start again.

I'm happy to share my tools but it is a windows exe, based on my workflow and is not full of error catching code - do something weird and it will just crash.  I'm not really a coder - just play around.