MAGIC MAPS - Help!

[+Birdman-of-liskatraz]

Is there any way to, either:

 

a.) Display Magic Map Boundaries on say Memory Map on a PDA.

 

or

 

b.) Get Magic Maps to display the position of a set of coordinates with a cross or something similar?

 

I'm trying to hide a cache on the side of a Granite Tor - the whole of the hillside is strewn with large granite boulders and despite my best efforts, I can't align the brown line shown on Magic Maps with features visible on the ground.

[+The Blorenges]

All I can offer you is my resource site where I've given help on how to use the map and the layers. You can enter coords (check the format accepted) or a nearby placename and then drag the map to the required location. You can also zoom in/out. Use the link to Streetmap to display a corresponding map of the area. You can enter the coords and Streetmap opens with an arrow at the location. Change the detail from default 1:50K to 1:25K by clicking the large + sign. Then zoom Magic to the same view (ish) and check against each other. You can save the Magic map screen and I have overlayed that (jpg) onto Google Earth. Fiddly but it works.

Streetmap link - http://benchmarks.org.uk/map.php?&size=5&bm&c=

MAGIC link on my resource site - http://www.follow-the-arrow.co.uk/resources/magic.html

 

Chris (MrB)

[+Birdman-of-liskatraz]

All I can offer you is my resource site where I've given help on how to use the map and the layers. You can enter coords (check the format accepted) or a nearby placename and then drag the map to the required location. You can also zoom in/out. Use the link to Streetmap to display a corresponding map of the area. You can enter the coords and Streetmap opens with an arrow at the location. Change the detail from default 1:50K to 1:25K by clicking the large + sign. Then zoom Magic to the same view (ish) and check against each other. You can save the Magic map screen and I have overlayed that (jpg) onto Google Earth. Fiddly but it works.

Streetmap link - http://benchmarks.org.uk/map.php?&size=5&bm&c=

MAGIC link on my resource site - http://www.follow-the-arrow.co.uk/resources/magic.html

 

Chris (MrB)

 

What would be loads easier, is if Magic Maps displayed a cursor, so I'd know if a set of coordiantes was within a SSSI or SAM or not.. There's not enough features on either Magic or Street Map to compare the two..

 

Can I ask how you know if a set of coordinates is within one of the SSSI/SAM/NT etc areas?

[+Gary & Jane]

Is there any way to, either:

 

a.) Display Magic Map Boundaries on say Memory Map on a PDA.

 

or

 

b.) Get Magic Maps to display the position of a set of coordinates with a cross or something similar?

 

...

 

I've just knocked up a page on my website that will allow you to do this. You can try it out here: Magic MapIt!.

[+Birdman-of-liskatraz]

Is there any way to, either:

 

a.) Display Magic Map Boundaries on say Memory Map on a PDA.

 

or

 

b.) Get Magic Maps to display the position of a set of coordinates with a cross or something similar?

 

...

 

I've just knocked up a page on my website that will allow you to do this. You can try it out here: Magic MapIt!.

 

Yeaaaaaaaa yaaaaaaaaaaaa! - Just what I wanted! Thank you so much! (And it looks like my coordiantes are just fine.

[+FantasyRaider]

Is there any way to, either:

 

a.) Display Magic Map Boundaries on say Memory Map on a PDA.

 

or

 

b.) Get Magic Maps to display the position of a set of coordinates with a cross or something similar?

 

...

 

I've just knocked up a page on my website that will allow you to do this. You can try it out here: Magic MapIt!.

 

Oh you are a star! .... i could never work that blooming Magic map! brilliant!

[+drdick&vick]

Just tried it out and can only say BRILLIANT

[+Teuchters]

But what was just as impressive was the Geograph image integration on a cache page. Clever or what!

 

Thanks once again!

[+DizzyPair]

Thanks a lot Gary...Excellent.