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For anyone who may have been following my Freemap free countryside
mapping website, an updated version is now up with the following new
features since the last release:
- coloured height shading - still a bit experimental as it's a little
slow at some resolutions;
- full coast outline, dynamically generated at high resolutions,
pre-generated image at low resolutions;
- ability to scale right out to an outline map of the UK;
- ability to zoom in by clicking on the map;
- full NASA SRTM contour data for all regions of the UK below 55N, so
any summit below that latitude should be identifiable....
I am also intending to team up with the openstreetmap guys
(openstreetmap.org) who aim to provide a central database of free
mapping data. I intend to contribute my data to their database and keep
Freemap as a client of the data. Note also that I am simplifying the
process of contributing your own data to Freemap; it should in the near
future be much easier just to submit tracklogs.
Nick
mapping website, an updated version is now up with the following new
features since the last release:
- coloured height shading - still a bit experimental as it's a little
slow at some resolutions;
- full coast outline, dynamically generated at high resolutions,
pre-generated image at low resolutions;
- ability to scale right out to an outline map of the UK;
- ability to zoom in by clicking on the map;
- full NASA SRTM contour data for all regions of the UK below 55N, so
any summit below that latitude should be identifiable....
I am also intending to team up with the openstreetmap guys
(openstreetmap.org) who aim to provide a central database of free
mapping data. I intend to contribute my data to their database and keep
Freemap as a client of the data. Note also that I am simplifying the
process of contributing your own data to Freemap; it should in the near
future be much easier just to submit tracklogs.
Nick