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topic: 3807good news - tiled NLS maps again
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posted: 2 Nov 2020 14:39

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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You may remember that I removed the NLS tiled maps options after 12 months because the API subscription renewals were too expensive.

The good news now is that the NLS map tiles are currently available (for non-commercial use) without needing an API key. How long that will last I don't know -- like Templot the NLS web site is a constant work-in-progress.

But while they are available, and will hopefully remain so, it makes sense to re-instate the tiled options, and for the first time add the 25" County Series and 50" National Grid Series, which are the ones most useful to us:

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It has meant a re-vamp of the dialog to fit everything in, and ideally it needs a full redesign. However that will have to wait for now, otherwise I never will get 227a released. :?

For the County Series maps it is necessary to tell Templot which historic county your map location is in. There is a drop-down list for that (and for the neighbouring county if your map crosses a boundary). That's because the tiles are arranged on the server by county. In theory I could write, or find from somewhere, a function to convert locations to counties, but it's no 5-minute task and life is too short to do everything, it will have to wait. If you have ever followed a wiggly county boundary you will understand just what a major task this would be.  

Just to repeat, the great advantage of the tiled maps is that you can easily create a map of any size, regardless of your screen size. There is no need to make multiple screen shots and align them.

And there is no need for a battle of wits with the embedded Windows browser -- which means the tiled maps also work in CrossOver/Wine and in Lazarus for T3.

Having loaded sufficient tiles to create your map, you can then use the crop/combine function to convert it to a single picture shape, and use the other functions as necessary to rotate it, wrap it, change the contrast, save the image file, etc.

But of course the alternative screenshot functions also remain available.

In the next program update.

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 2 Nov 2020 21:38

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roythebus
 
Aldington Frith, Ashford, Kent - United Kingdom

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Thanks, I was just thinking about downloading another Kensington High Street map!

It would make an interesting model and alternative to the "M" word that Cyril freezer designed as a compact city terminus.

posted: 3 Nov 2020 02:54

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Andrew Barrowman
 
USA

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Yeah, but that crossover is still missing (or is my memory playing tricks on me?) :)



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