User Manual MapConverter How to create custom maps for your AvMap navigator Contents I. Introduction 2 II. How to obtain an image of a map 3 III. How to geo-reference the map on Google Earth 3 IV. How to geo-reference the map with OziExplorer 6 V. How to convert the map with MapConverter 8 MapConverter - www.avmap.
I. Introduction and next to that the type of map is indicated in brackets The Map Converter is one of the functions you can find in the Suite: it allows converting a paper or electronic map and (TCE / TZC / TCV). loading it in your navigator. Attention: The MapConverter works on PC. overlapping (in that case only one map will be visible) Do not load more maps with the same coverage to avoid Which maps can I load on my navigator? MapConverter allows you converting raster maps from the .
II. How to obtain an image of a map • If have a paper map is printed, you can scan it at an appropriate resolution, and save the image as a JPEG. • if your map is electronic, such as a PDF, you need to convert it using a suitable program to save it as a JPEG. The image of the map has to be in JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP or GIF format. Attention: the maps have to meet some requirements • The map should be geographic or in Mercator projection • The map should not have any rotation III.
5. Click on the “Location” tab and make sure the Draw value Choose a name for the map is left to zero. Find the image in your PC Leave this value = 0 6. Use the transparency to adjust the transparency of the image, so that so the Google Earth satellite imagery can be seen beneath the JPEG. This way it will be easier to match the image with the map beneath. Move the cursor to get the desired transparency MapConverter - www.avmap.
7. Georeferencing the image A. Manual Georeference: Move the green marks on the image to adjust the corners, edges, center of the image. You can click and drag the corners and edges to stretch it or you can click and drag the center to move it. B. Georeferencing with geographical coordinates: If you have the coordinates of the four corners of the map, you can easily insert them in Google Earth. Click on the “Location” tab, click on “Convert in Lat Lon Quad” and the insert the Lat Lon of the four corners. 8.
IV. How to geo-reference the map with OziExplorer 1. Install OziExplorer 2. From the File menu, in the upper bar of OziExplorer, choose the option “Load and calibrate map image”. 3. Choose in your PC the file (you can load different types of files: tiff, bitmap, jpeg, png, kap, cap, ozf, cv, sid). The calibration window appears. 4. In the Setup tab in the right column of the screen set the Map Datum and the Map Projection type. 5. You have now to find the coordinates of at least 5 points on the maps.
- Open Google Maps http://maps. google.com and search for the place represented in your map. - Search in Google Maps for a specific point represented on your map, - Right click on this point and select “What’s here?” the upper will display the geographical decimal coordinates for that point. 6. Now to georeference these points in OziExplorer click on the Point1 tab in the right column: the cursor con will change in “Calibrate position 1”, 7. Select the exact point previously selected on Google Maps.
V. How to convert the map with MapConverter 3. Choose a name and a description for the map.. Now that you have created a .kmz or .map file you can convert it in the AvMap format and import it in your navigator. If you wish to use existing .kmz, please make sure they really contain an image and not a link (opening them with Google Earth). 1. Open the Suite, connect the navigator, log in and click on the Map Converter button. 4. Choose the conversion scale clicking the corresponding option.
