Import scanned jpeg charts

[rytmenpinne]

I've tried to do this http://opencpn.org/ocpn/chart_conversion_linux But I failed miserably and it would be a proper pain in the butt when you've got something like 60 pages or so.. So is there a feature planned to more easily import jpeg charts, and even aerial photographs? Wouldn't it be as simple as importing the image and glueing two or more known coordinates of the chart/image to openCPN's coordinate system and the image would simply scale itself?

[nohal]

rytmenpinne...
Have you tried the weatherfax plugin?

Pavel

[rytmenpinne]

Originally Posted by nohal

rytmenpinne...
Have you tried the weatherfax plugin?

Pavel

I have not! I found openCPN just a couple of days ago, anyway, I'll look into that..

[rytmenpinne]

hummdidum, I'm on archlinux and there is not even an AUR build file.. I'm not finding any build instructions for linux either! the usual ./configure etc didnt work...

[nohal]

I can hear you even without the exclamation marks
Try reading the README at https://github.com/seandepagnier/wea.../master/README and following the build instructions there. As all the OpenCPN related stuff, this plugin uses cmake, not auto* toolchain.

Pavel

[rytmenpinne]

Originally Posted by nohal

I can hear you even without the exclamation marks
Try reading the README at https://github.com/seandepagnier/wea.../master/README and following the build instructions there. As all the OpenCPN related stuff, this plugin uses cmake, not auto* toolchain.

Pavel

Yes I see the readme, however, it's not completely clear.. step two is to 'cd build', but the folder "build" doesn't exist there is buildwin and buildosx which implies they are platform specific.. Cheers

[nohal]

cd YOUR_TREE
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

[rytmenpinne]

Originally Posted by nohal

cd YOUR_TREE
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...lies/smile.gif Thanks, for some reason it also worked from the OSX directory, and this seems to be what I'm looking for! Thanks!

[nohal]

Originally Posted by rytmenpinne

http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...lies/smile.gif Thanks, for some reason it also worked from the OSX directory, and this seems to be what I'm looking for! Thanks!

Now I'm a bit confused It of course works also on OS X, but you don't need to build anything there, a prebuilt installation package for this plugin is available directly from the download page (updated today)

[rytmenpinne]

Originally Posted by nohal

Now I'm a bit confused It of course works also on OS X, but you don't need to build anything there, a prebuilt installation package for this plugin is available directly from the download page (updated today)

hmm, I'm also confused now I think I went into the buildOSX directory, did cmake .. make make install I don't see any links to something prebuilt PlugIns for OpenCPN 4.2 | Official OpenCPN Homepage

[nohal]

Just click on the words "setup package" to the right of the apple picture and a word "mac"


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[rytmenpinne]

Originally Posted by nohal

Just click on the words "setup package" to the right of the apple picture and a word "mac"


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Ah yes, but I'm on linux you see

[nohal]

I got confused by you mentioning OS X directory...

[piluso]

I've wrote a graphical tool for this some time ago, it is here:
http://dgiardini.com.ar/imgcalkap/

It can open almost any picture format, and save as kap. It can also open kap files for recalibrate.

It runs o Linux and Windows.

I must to upload the project to github, the actual obscure location is not useful for potential users/contributors.

Regards, David