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rmerigan
Falchetto
Australia
177 Posts |
 Posted - 21/08/2013 : 13:52:18
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Joch,
you will need to put in the name of your wire layer in the .tpl file .
To save your wire layer right click on the wire layer in the left layer panel on QGIS and save as shape file, take those shape files and add it to your existing lkm file along with the modified tpl file and rezip . |
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rmerigan
Falchetto
Australia
177 Posts |
Posted - 21/08/2013 : 13:57:28
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Coolwind,
This is from my LKM file
water_area, 5010,,1,64,96,240
water_line, 5020,,,64,96,240
city_area, 5110,,1,223,223,0
city_point, 5070,218,1,223,223,0
road_line, 5030,,,64,64,64
roadsmall_line, 5040,,,64,64,64
railroad_line, 5060,,,240,64,64
Any idea what 5010, 5030, 5070 etc. means? I gather the 3 commas in a row for road line etc. means they are visible at all zooms |
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Coolwind
Moderator
Italy
8957 Posts |
Posted - 21/08/2013 : 14:05:47
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Ok I think I remember.. The 5xxx values are marking topology items with a number. 5010 means water area, of course.
You must, you must , simply indicate these numbers as they are in your example. nothing else to be done.
LK is NOT using the old xcsoar zoom level, because it wes totally rewritten and we use custom zoom levels available to the user in topology setup.
The only thing you can change is the RGB value, in case you want to . But I would not do it.
In practice originally xcsoar was setting for each item a common zoom level in this file.
LK is not doing so. It is instead identifying an item giving a number id to it (5010, 5020 etc) and then the zoom level is adjustable in configuration.
I hope it is clear.. I did it so much time ago!! |
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rmerigan
Falchetto
Australia
177 Posts |
Posted - 21/08/2013 : 14:20:05
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| I guess Joch wants to put in a layer for cables in his swiss map any idea what 5XXX that would be or just try and pick something unused like 5080. |
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Coolwind
Moderator
Italy
8957 Posts |
Posted - 21/08/2013 : 14:59:40
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// 1 is marked locations
// 05 for coast areas
// 10 for water area
// 20 for water line
// 30 for big road
// 40 for medium road
// 50 for small road
// 60 for railroad
// 70 for big city
// 80 for medium city
// 90 for small city
// 100 for very small city
// 110 for city area polyline with no name
beware that there is a "shape icon" (see https://github.com/LK8000/LK8000/blob/master/Common/Source/MapDraw/OpenCloseTopology.cpp)
defining an icon which is embedded in LK as an internal resource, and thus cannot be changed.
I can guess Joch may try using the Mark Location topology item identifier for the scope.
1 means 5001
110 means 5110
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chris@lk8000
Pulcino
Cuba
44 Posts |
Posted - 21/08/2013 : 19:56:07
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As far as I understood, the procedure is to find a apropriate layer to add. Convert with QGIS to SHP format and place it inside the .LKM
And not to forget to name it in the topology.tpl file
What about resizing to make it fit to the existing map?
What are those SHX, DBF and so on?
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chris@lk8000
Pulcino
Cuba
44 Posts |
Posted - 21/08/2013 : 20:00:05
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quote:
Originally posted by chris@lk8000
What are those SHX, DBF and so on?
Did try now and found the answer:
Ok, when saving the layer this files will become generated along with the shapefile...
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joch
Pulcino
Switzerland
12 Posts |
Posted - 22/08/2013 : 13:07:00
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Hello
Now i tryd a lot of thing, but a long time without sucsess.
I have saved the wire layer as shape file and stored it in the LKM file.
There were 5 Files, i have named them: wires_line, shx, shp, qpj, prj, dbf.
Then i used for the topology Folder the same number as for the road "roadbig". So i wrote there: wires_line, 5030,,,240,64,64
And then, Yepye it works now with the PC!!
Thank you all very much for your help and patience, because i'am not a hero with computers i only can do what people help me to do.
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chris@lk8000
Pulcino
Cuba
44 Posts |
Posted - 22/08/2013 : 13:57:32
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http://mapgen.xcsoar.org has anice map generator.
The resulting xcm can be used with LK8000 as well, right? |
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rmerigan
Falchetto
Australia
177 Posts |
Posted - 22/08/2013 : 15:37:24
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| Only in old versions of lk8000, the XCM file includes the DEM file, can include waypoints etc whereas LK8000 has a separate DEM file and the LKM file is only topology |
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chris@lk8000
Pulcino
Cuba
44 Posts |
Posted - 24/08/2013 : 02:30:23
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I only found those restrictions below:
Old JPG2000 terrain files in old XCM maps are no more supported. maps cannot be larger than 4-5 megabytes. |
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Coolwind
Moderator
Italy
8957 Posts |
Posted - 25/08/2013 : 02:14:56
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| xcm maps are not a choice for lk anymore. |
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chris@lk8000
Pulcino
Cuba
44 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2013 : 12:44:50
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I see. Tried with a freshly generated xcm. It seems useable but shows funny symbols in certain places.
Beside asking for a new map using the template:
Which tools can be used to create custom maps resulting in a valid LKM?
Is all handmade with QGIS or do we have an easy to use tool (preferable online tool) as well available?
I tried QGIS but my hardware can hardly handle the OSM shapefiles available. It seems to come with to many detail and each time I try to make intersections mouse cursor goes hourglass for minutes.
Maybe XCM can be converted to LKM providing an easier way to have a more lightweight approach. |
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Coolwind
Moderator
Italy
8957 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2013 : 12:52:42
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it seems you dont understand why xcm and lkm are different, internally.
LKM have different icons, more shape categories (and different) and their zoom levels can be changed by the user.
If you use xcm all of this will not happen, if ever will work.
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rmerigan
Falchetto
Australia
177 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2013 : 12:59:47
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I found that OSM had too small a limit on the area of the files and that it includes every street in every little town , so I used shp files from government sources and only loaded the road layers. The existing river ,lakes, town outlines etc in my LKM file were ok to use as I just wanted to increase the road detail.
Why don't you try pulling out all the shp files from the XCM and making a new .tpl file, although I found for
my area the XCM files provided no better detail |
Edited by - rmerigan on 26/08/2013 13:01:02 |
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LK Maps with OpenStreetMap layer