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Wilderness Area map on internet (proprietary scrolling, but USFS), want on Orux

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Post  schweizer Sun Aug 11, 2013 7:00 pm

Hello all, I'm new to this forum but I've been researching this problem for the past few days.

Here is the website that contains a scanned map of the Marble Mountain Wilderness and Russian Wilderness in Northern California.
http://www.papermapsonline.com/home/NorthernCalifornia/MarbleMountainRussianWilderness.aspx

It is a USFS map from 2004, with good detail and hiking trails -- better than the USGS map server or USA Topo.

I'm not sure of the best way to import it into Oruxmaps for offline private use while hiking/backpacking. (Just so everyone knows, we do own the paper version of this map legally somewhere, but it's a bit ratty.)

So far, this is the only method that I've made any progress with:
Download a chunk of the map as a jpg (right click on the website).
Use the jpg to make a overlay map in Google Earth and export as kmz file.
Use mapc2mapc to write Androzic map+ozf2.
Convert that with Oruxmapsdesktop to Oruxmaps format.

Wow! That's cumbersome.

I thought that I might be able to use a KMZ overlay in oruxmaps, but that didn't work.

Other programs I tried were okmap, maptiler,etc.

So, I guess the best method is to save pieces of the map in jpg chunks by scrolling & right-clicking on the website, then combine them together with something like Gimp (on a Macbook Pro, don't have Photoshop or other software). Then I'll enter latitude/longitude data from the hashmarks on the map and scale around the edges. I'm not sure what to use for Datum and Projection. Thanks for any input.

Marcus

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Post  schweizer Sun Aug 11, 2013 7:26 pm

After looking at the map more carefully I found North American Datum of 1927 and Lambert Conformal projection, but oruxmapsdesktop wants a lot more data about the Lambert projection -- values that I don't have any clue about. Thanks.

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Post  schweizer Mon Aug 12, 2013 7:30 am

Here are the oruxmap format files for Marble Mountain Wilderness (top 2/3) and Russian Wilderness in Northern California:

Link to zipfile: Russian Wilderness

Link to zipfile: Marbles

I messed up zoom on the 34th tile while scrolling through the website to build the Marble Mountain map, but the major lakes and most popular areas are included.   Enjoy!

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