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General Forums => Terrain Editor => Topic started by: BenDover on August 09, 2002, 01:08:10 PM

Title: need help with the map maker
Post by: BenDover on August 09, 2002, 01:08:10 PM

what width do i need so its at a scale of 1:1?

Title: need help with the map maker
Post by: Wotan on August 09, 2002, 02:24:50 PM

(http://www.concentric.net/~Reaper/mapmaker/1scale.jpg)

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if you want to make what is equates to a 1:1 scale terrain (real size), you will need to load a region into MapMaker that is already approximately 1:1 (512x512 miles)

Title: need help with the map maker
Post by: BenDover on August 09, 2002, 04:25:35 PM

that doesn't really help

it says the width is measured in degrees, that says miles

Title: need help with the map maker
Post by: BenDover on August 09, 2002, 04:26:39 PM

oh, and which bit of normandy did the landings happen, the sticky out bit, or the cove?

Title: need help with the map maker
Post by: NUTTZ on August 09, 2002, 09:10:58 PM

since when did Normandy become part of Italy?


NUTTZ

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Originally posted by BenDover
oh, and which bit of normandy did the landings happen, the sticky out bit, or the cove?

Title: need help with the map maker
Post by: BenDover on August 09, 2002, 09:35:21 PM

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Title: need help with the map maker
Post by: Wotan on August 09, 2002, 10:57:01 PM

get you an atlas that tells you how many miles per degrees ..

you gotta be kidding me if you dont know where normandie landings took place.

try using a search eng.......

Title: need help with the map maker
Post by: BenDover on August 09, 2002, 11:36:14 PM

i couldn't remember if it was near caen, or cherbourg

Title: need help with the map maker
Post by: Furious on August 10, 2002, 01:09:32 AM

Miles per degree of longitude change with number of degrees latitude.


F.

Title: need help with the map maker
Post by: pokie on August 10, 2002, 07:15:06 AM

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Originally posted by Furious
Miles per degree of longitude change with number of degrees latitude.


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Furious is correct about this statement BenDover.


Try this calculator at the web site      very cool!

http://164.214.12.145/calc/degree.html

So I would enter a latitude number that would be close to the center of the area you want ( North to South ) that would give you the center of your 512 mile terrain.

Example: If I wanted to make a 512 mile terrain around Nova Scotia, Canada and wanted to make the city of Halifax as my center position of my 512 X 512 terrain.  I would use 45* Latitude, and enter that number in the Calculator.

Doesn't really matter that much anyway, your map wouldn't be that far off it you entered a Latitude number close to where you are taken a section from the world.

I have another site too that may be useful but I'll need to find it first.

I'll be soon getting back to working on using the mapmaker again and may even come up with a Help file.  Had found some information that may be useful to people who want to use the program.

Pokie

Title: need help with the map maker
Post by: BenDover on August 10, 2002, 08:56:43 AM

thanks pokie, thats just what i need


now, which mile do i use?

Title: need help with the map maker
Post by: pokie on August 10, 2002, 10:05:42 AM

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Originally posted by BenDover
thanks pokie, thats just what i need


now, which mile do i use?

Sorry BenDover wasn't completely thinking :(  I should have added that you would be using Statute Mile.

Nautical miles are used on ocean and coastal waters.
Statute miles are used for inland areas such as the Intracoastal Waterway and the Great Lakes.

http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/miles.htm

Pokie

Title: need help with the map maker
Post by: BenDover on August 10, 2002, 11:10:48 AM

right

lat= 7.23 degrees
long= 11.22 degrees

adding those to values i get this (see attacted),
which, correct me if i'm wrong, looks right by eye balling my atlas i found in a drawer today