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Originally Posted by JVM (Post 273599)

On this I can certainly help you as I have the full 1940 French railway system of the game area (and even a bit more as the latter has slightly decreased since the original idea of MG) as a kml file.

I have separated the standard gauge system, the 1 m gauge system and the specific German military system developed for the big guns.

You should know however as far as France is concerned that most probably a very small part of the standard system is shown in-game, and most probably the 1 m gauge and military are not there at all (for now).

There are also many issues on the map itself, which I hope will be addressed later (like nuclear power plant landscape items, or 1975 harbors...things like that; some airfields are not completely well placed, and three of them should not exist at all. Some names are not spelled properly, and there are many other issues (devs are aware of all this, but corrections are certainly not a priority for now :-) )

Let me know if I can do something for you (if you know how to convert a kml to a string of map positions, it might help if your map can be geo-referenced)!

JVM

Thanks for the offer JVM. I have no idea how to Geo Refrence the map. Do you have a simple graphical plot of the railways or is it all in data ?

Hello Ivan!

As a kml it is all in data. However you can select the line(s) you are interested in, display it on Google Earth and save the image in such a way that the totality of the line is visible as well as some landmarks: after that you can scale it in a Photoshop layer and either extract it as a color, or copy it manually.
I had to reproduce manually all the details (the track layout precision is usually better than 1 meter...) as this data is intended for the in-game landscape, but for a navigational map you can afford to be less intricate, so the manual reproduction method above should be quite OK.

JV

Hi Guys,

I've taken Wooster's map and put it in PDF format. It's 3 pages wide and 4 pages long (A4) So 12 pages large.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V6JDRVQN

I was messing about with margins but didn't' have time, so there's a tiny bit of white space between the pages, but you can just cut these off or fold them.

I used posterazor on Ubuntu to generate the PDF.

Just a quick FYI (I'm sure you're already aware of this), with the new beta patch there is now a lot more detail on the map with more towns being named and a few new airfields like Westhampnett, the satellite airfield for Tangmere.

sorry to come back to this old post but I was wondering if there has been any new work made on these printable maps,

thanks to the guys who have put a lot of time and effort on them.

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Originally Posted by Jarsalla (Post 274304)

Using a tool called posterazor http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/ you can make a big map out of the map Wooster posted with a regular A4 or A3 capable printer. I just did it, now I just have to glue all the pages together :D

Thanks for the link! But there are many programs of this category, for example, I use this poster making software.

Pas de Calais area
http://don-caldwell.we.bs/jg26/pdecal.htm

France/Holland/Belgium
http://don-caldwell.we.bs/jg26/frholbel.htm

RAF Airfields - South East England
http://don-caldwell.we.bs/jg26/engmap.htm

German airfields with grid references
http://don-caldwell.we.bs/jg26/gradnetz.htm

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Originally Posted by Al Schlageter (Post 344130)

Beware of this data...it is of no use whatsoever (except explanations of planquadrat in the last link).
Most of the locations were made using darts from 10 yards away, and 2/3 of them are not even designating airfields. If you want real locations, tell me, I will send a kmz file.
Even MG who had this kmz file made some slight positioning mistakes, but admittedly small and not too many...
MG serious airfield errors are of a different nature (runways/L_T/O directions were none really existed, and usually not even representative of preferred axises, wrong shapes, haphazard hangar locations, no clear boundaries etc etc). Hopefully a revision will be possible later...

JVM

IvanK

did your map ever get completed and can we get it somewhere?

btw, I notice that Wooster's link and a couple of others on the back of it are the subject of anti-piracy action by the US Govt. :shock: