Printing the map

[Brit_Radar_Dude]

I managed to find a 1:300,000 scale tourist road map that is quite detailed in a specialist map shop in London. It is actually by a french publisher.

 

Institut Geographique National

Map 3615 IGN Edition 1 copyright IGN Paris 1997

 

It has a barcode on it that might help you find it, 3 282118 605316

[Guest IguanaKing]

I wish I could remember the name of the place I used to buy TPCs from. It was a company in Canada that sold them on-line. Heh...but I guess a TPC isn't exactly something that fits on your lap. :D

[Oscar]

Just give us a standalone version of the in-cockpit BS mission planner that was shown in the demo with all the features shown (zoomable/scrollable map, object waypoint planning, threat zones, etc) and the ability to write a mission file directly into LockOn from that program, or, give us the capability to access the map and mission planner externally from an XML or Java based frontend. Thats the ticket.

[zaelu]

OK, I print screened all the weekend... :D

 

The map is almost done, it has roughly 22000X10000 pixels and its 72dpi. On it can be seen all the villages, all the roads, rail roads, power lines etc.

 

The ideea is to print the map at a large scale and hang it plastified beside "pilot" on some metalic plate (similar to big maps on walls :) ). Now everibody could buy or confectionate some magnetic "toys" (you may scrap some small magnetic chess game :) ) that can be use as temporar "markers"...

 

...you get the ideea.

 

This is a preview. Is not too high rez but you can at least see that the villages are included.

 

 

What I still need to do:

 

Some checking of the distances so I'll make shure the map is not deformed (Crimea had to be downsized a little due to the "unstable" level of zoom in Lock On betwean session, no biggie... some technical thing).

 

Some Sectorization. I thought about making it in 2 versions. One clean high rez so anybody could use it at will and one sectorised high rez. The sectors will not be made (drawned) by lines but, by tones of shading. Some sectors will be a little darker than other so the information will not be lost nor the map will become overloaded.

 

My question is: What size the sectors should be? In kilometers :P . 25?

[Ardillita]

mmmm I don´t think a maz of that size can be used on a fighter cockpit :)

 

çYour works has value but may be you are re inventing the wheel. The maps are already created, you can find them in the link I pasted above. In fact, those maps has all the tool a pilot uses in real life (compass marks, etc)

[Oscar]

Zaelu, I'll take one copy please - full scale. Just point me to the download!

[GGTharos]

Same ehre :D

[zaelu]

Ok I have checked for errors and I found no big problem. Map is matching the black and white one from Lomac home page pritty well. And after that I measured some distance between two intersections of roads in Krasnodar which had 7.9KM and one coresponding in Sevastopol and they matched OK. I estimate an error under 50m maximum if any :P.

 

As for the usefulness... The map is exactly as the one in the game and you dont need to translate the info from one map to the other. Also it helps a lot at locating or keeping track of enemy positions, especialy on ground attack missions when you are on a server with no F10 view.

 

Also the scale... yup is big but that means only high rez and freedom of choice, anyone can downscale it at will.

 

I'll post the upload link soon (just the clean version first ;) )

[SVK_Fox]

Here is my solution on this topic

http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?t=19357

 

You can find there best map I think, and I printed it on format A0 and got it on front of mee on the wall.