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Tasmap downloads and Backcountry Navigator Pro

Postby Drew » Tue 17 Sep, 2019 3:34 pm

I just purchased a map download from Tasmap, assuming I'd be able to load it on to Backcountry Navigator Pro. After going around in circles with no success I emailed for help and got an answer that explained everything: "We cannot process KMZ that is an image overlay. We do not claim to."

So, is there another way to load these maps into this app? I did flirt with Orux a while back at the suggestion of others on the forum, but I found it much less intuitive than Backcountry, so I'd rather not switch.

Backcountry does have inbuilt Tasmania maps (and I've found their maps to be good generally) but thought that I might like the Tasmap for a planned Arthurs traverse.

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Re: Tasmap downloads and Backcountry Navigator Pro

Postby Warin » Tue 17 Sep, 2019 3:59 pm

Can you convert the KMZ to something your app can use? geoTIFF?
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Re: Tasmap downloads and Backcountry Navigator Pro

Postby Son of a Beach » Tue 17 Sep, 2019 4:29 pm

Ask Tasmap to resend it in a different format. Or see if there's a way to download it in a different format. Preferably GeoTIFF.

KMZ is not a good spatial data format.


(Note that KMZ is just a zipped KML package. You can rename it to replace ".kmz" with ".zip" and then unzip it and find all the files inside it. You may be able to find the actual image file(s) within it and see if you can do anything useful with them.)
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Re: Tasmap downloads and Backcountry Navigator Pro

Postby michael_p » Tue 17 Sep, 2019 4:29 pm

Digital TASMAP files should be geotiff (see here: https://www.tasmap.tas.gov.au/do/category/25000DIG ). Here is a link on how to convert geotiff for use in BCNPro: http://backcountrynavigator.com/using-c ... avigation/

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Re: Tasmap downloads and Backcountry Navigator Pro

Postby Drew » Tue 17 Sep, 2019 4:56 pm

Thanks all.

Ask Tasmap to resend it in a different format. Or see if there's a way to download it in a different format. Preferably GeoTIFF.

KMZ is not a good spatial data format.


(Note that KMZ is just a zipped KML package. You can rename it to replace ".kmz" with ".zip" and then unzip it and find all the files inside it. You may be able to find the actual image file(s) within it and see if you can do anything useful with them.)

TASMAP also provided a folder with a 48mb TIF file (the map) and a few PDFs (map legend) and txt files. I assume that putting the 48mb file into Backcountry won't work?
I unzipped the KMZ and inside there was a KML file and a folder of smaller TIFs (the map broken into 50 sections).

Digital TASMAP files should be geotiff (see here: https://www.tasmap.tas.gov.au/do/category/25000DIG ). Here is a link on how to convert geotiff for use in BCNPro: http://backcountrynavigator.com/using-c ... avigation/

Looks like MAPC2MAPC is Windows only software. I'm a Mac user.
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Re: Tasmap downloads and Backcountry Navigator Pro

Postby michael_p » Tue 17 Sep, 2019 4:59 pm

Drew wrote:I'm a Mac user.

This might work for you: https://www.howtogeek.com/263211/how-to ... with-wine/

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Re: Tasmap downloads and Backcountry Navigator Pro

Postby Drew » Tue 17 Sep, 2019 5:11 pm

This might work for you: https://www.howtogeek.com/263211/how-to ... with-wine/


Thanks Michael. I'll see if Backcountry or anyone on here has a more straightforward solution first. Failing that I might have a go at the geekery! Or I might just use the inbuilt maps...
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Re: Tasmap downloads and Backcountry Navigator Pro

Postby tastrax » Tue 17 Sep, 2019 8:40 pm

You may find that you can use the following as a custom basemap

Code: Select all
https://services.thelist.tas.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/Basemaps/Topographic/MapServer/WMTS/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml


https://crittermap.zendesk.com/hc/en-us ... ap-Sources


You may then be able to download some of the tiles for the Western Arthurs for use offline
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Re: Tasmap downloads and Backcountry Navigator Pro

Postby Drew » Wed 18 Sep, 2019 10:20 am

You may find that you can use the following as a custom basemap

Code: Select all
https://services.thelist.tas.gov.au/arc ... lities.xml



https://crittermap.zendesk.com/hc/en-us ... ap-Sources


You may then be able to download some of the tiles for the Western Arthurs for use offline


Thanks tastrax. I've loaded the example xml file from the Crittermap link and it works. But I don't see how I can load the Tassie one - I don't understand how this
(https://services.thelist.tas.gov.au/arc ... lities.xml) is a file that I can load. Despite having "xml" at the end it just seems like a web address. When I enter it in my browser I get "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below."

Apologies if I'm missing something really obvious - this stuff is all a mystery to me!
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Re: Tasmap downloads and Backcountry Navigator Pro

Postby Son of a Beach » Wed 18 Sep, 2019 11:46 am

Drew wrote:Thanks all.

Ask Tasmap to resend it in a different format. Or see if there's a way to download it in a different format. Preferably GeoTIFF.

KMZ is not a good spatial data format.


(Note that KMZ is just a zipped KML package. You can rename it to replace ".kmz" with ".zip" and then unzip it and find all the files inside it. You may be able to find the actual image file(s) within it and see if you can do anything useful with them.)

TASMAP also provided a folder with a 48mb TIF file (the map) and a few PDFs (map legend) and txt files. I assume that putting the 48mb file into Backcountry won't work?
I unzipped the KMZ and inside there was a KML file and a folder of smaller TIFs (the map broken into 50 sections).

Digital TASMAP files should be geotiff (see here: https://www.tasmap.tas.gov.au/do/category/25000DIG ). Here is a link on how to convert geotiff for use in BCNPro: http://backcountrynavigator.com/using-c ... avigation/

Looks like MAPC2MAPC is Windows only software. I'm a Mac user.


I don't know what format your app needs, but for Mac, you could try to tile your large GeoTIFF file using MapTiler: https://www.maptiler.com/ . It has many options for tiled output formats. I used to recommend it for users of my old iOS mapping apps (and had a deal with the author of MAPC2MAPC to produce tiles native to my app too).
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Re: Tasmap downloads and Backcountry Navigator Pro

Postby michael_p » Wed 18 Sep, 2019 11:49 am

Drew wrote:(https://services.thelist.tas.gov.au/arc ... lities.xml) is a file that I can load. Despite having "xml" at the end it just seems like a web address. When I enter it in my browser I get "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below."

Apologies if I'm missing something really obvious - this stuff is all a mystery to me!

The message you are getting in your browser is the correct behaviour for un-styled xml. So don't worry about it.

I've had a read of the linked crtittermap page and I think you need to right click on the link and save the WMTSCapabilities.xml file. As detailed on the crittermap site:
This can be placed in the bcnav/custom file on your storage for use. If you download this file in your mobile browser, it is often a mystery where the file goes. The answer is that files are usually placed in the <storage>/Download folder.

Once you have a copy of the xml file in the bcnav/custom folder you should be able to open it from within the BCNPro app.

Hopefully I have got this right. :D

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Re: Tasmap downloads and Backcountry Navigator Pro

Postby Drew » Wed 18 Sep, 2019 12:18 pm

Drew wrote:
(https://services.thelist.tas.gov.au/arc ... lities.xml) is a file that I can load. Despite having "xml" at the end it just seems like a web address. When I enter it in my browser I get "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below."

Apologies if I'm missing something really obvious - this stuff is all a mystery to me!


The message you are getting in your browser is the correct behaviour for un-styled xml. So don't worry about it.

I've had a read of the linked crtittermap page and I think you need to right click on the link and save the WMTSCapabilities.xml file. As detailed on the crittermap site:

This can be placed in the bcnav/custom file on your storage for use. If you download this file in your mobile browser, it is often a mystery where the file goes. The answer is that files are usually placed in the <storage>/Download folder.


Once you have a copy of the xml file in the bcnav/custom folder you should be able to open it from within the BCNPro app.

Hopefully I have got this right. :D

Michael.


Thanks Michael. I did this and "Tasmania LIST Topo Maps" now appears as an option for a Map Source in Backcountry Nav. But if I select it then no map comes up. Something ain't quite right!
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Re: Tasmap downloads and Backcountry Navigator Pro

Postby Drew » Wed 18 Sep, 2019 12:24 pm

I don't know what format your app needs, but for Mac, you could try to tile your large GeoTIFF file using MapTiler: https://www.maptiler.com/ . It has many options for tiled output formats. I used to recommend it for users of my old iOS mapping apps (and had a deal with the author of MAPC2MAPC to produce tiles native to my app too).


Thanks Son of a Beach. I'll keep that in mind if the other approach fails. Or I might just be happy with the inbuilt maps, which seem decent. Of course I'll take paper maps too. :D
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Re: Tasmap downloads and Backcountry Navigator Pro

Postby tastrax » Mon 23 Sep, 2019 3:45 pm

Drew wrote:Thanks Michael. I did this and "Tasmania LIST Topo Maps" now appears as an option for a Map Source in Backcountry Nav. But if I select it then no map comes up. Something ain't quite right!


The map tiles should be viewable whilst you have a 3g/4g connection on your device. It might take a while to initially load and generally the tiles (where you look/zoom around on the map) will most likely cache on your device for a period of time.
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