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alyem
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Re: Polygon Drawing Discussion

Postby alyem » Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:09 pm

duke17 wrote:Good. :welcome: to Polygon mapping. :thumbsup: We do need more polygon mappers.:peace:


Any Senior Polygon mappers wanna to Upgrade to Mapping???
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Re: Polygon Drawing Discussion

Postby waiweng83 » Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:46 pm

Just now when I was playing with the unregistered version of GPSMapEdit, I discovered something and wish to share it here:

As you all know, when we save the *.mp file, the polygon is only save up to 5 decimal points and this may cause the polygon out of shape or misaligned. There is a way to save 6 decimal points for the lat and lon.

1. Draw a polygon, then save the mp file.
2. Edit the mp file with a text editor (notepad, vim...etc)
3. You will see that the lat and lon is only saved up to 5 decimal points. Append a '0' at the end of each lat and lon so that it has 6 decimal points. Then save the edited file.
4. Open the mp file with GPSMapEdit and start drawing your polygon. Any subsequent polygon will be saved as 6 decimal points.


I'm not sure whether this method has been shared before, I just wanna share my finding :)

Hope this helps.
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Re: Polygon Drawing Discussion

Postby chaicka » Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:48 am

waiweng83 wrote:Just now when I was playing with the unregistered version of GPSMapEdit, I discovered something and wish to share it here:

As you all know, when we save the *.mp file, the polygon is only save up to 5 decimal points and this may cause the polygon out of shape or misaligned. There is a way to save 6 decimal points for the lat and lon.

1. Draw a polygon, then save the mp file.
2. Edit the mp file with a text editor (notepad, vim...etc)
3. You will see that the lat and lon is only saved up to 5 decimal points. Append a '0' at the end of each lat and lon so that it has 6 decimal points. Then save the edited file.
4. Open the mp file with GPSMapEdit and start drawing your polygon. Any subsequent polygon will be saved as 6 decimal points.


I'm not sure whether this method has been shared before, I just wanna share my finding :)

Hope this helps.


Strange. Your method didn't work for me. MapEdit v1.0.60.0.

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Re: Polygon Drawing Discussion

Postby waiweng83 » Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:57 am

chaicka wrote:
waiweng83 wrote:Just now when I was playing with the unregistered version of GPSMapEdit, I discovered something and wish to share it here:

As you all know, when we save the *.mp file, the polygon is only save up to 5 decimal points and this may cause the polygon out of shape or misaligned. There is a way to save 6 decimal points for the lat and lon.

1. Draw a polygon, then save the mp file.
2. Edit the mp file with a text editor (notepad, vim...etc)
3. You will see that the lat and lon is only saved up to 5 decimal points. Append a '0' at the end of each lat and lon so that it has 6 decimal points. Then save the edited file.
4. Open the mp file with GPSMapEdit and start drawing your polygon. Any subsequent polygon will be saved as 6 decimal points.


I'm not sure whether this method has been shared before, I just wanna share my finding :)

Hope this helps.


Strange. Your method didn't work for me. MapEdit v1.0.60.0.


Err, I'm using 1.0.61.1 btw...
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Re: Polygon Drawing Discussion

Postby fruitplus » Tue Dec 01, 2009 8:02 pm

alyem wrote:
duke17 wrote:Good. :welcome: to Polygon mapping. :thumbsup: We do need more polygon mappers.:peace:


Any Senior Polygon mappers wanna to Upgrade to Mapping???


Bro, ive pm'ed u already...
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