by waterfallman » Wed 13 Jan, 2016 10:04 am
Hi folks.. This mobac might be working for some, but definitely not for me! I am trying to create a paper pdf atlas or 2 or 3, on my laptop and it aint working.
I downloaded Mobac 1.9.16 and added the tas list xmls in. Then fired it up. Then after much faffing around blindly (clunky interface/no help etc) for ages, I selected Open StreetMap MapQuest source initially so I could even see where I was in the world. Get some graphics up on the screen etc. Then, being used to AutoCAD, I did the usual rectangle selecting and trying to pan and zoom which buggered it all up and I had to start again. Then I finally selected the geographic cords for the NW of Tassie. Chopped the state into a quarter. Planned to do the other 3 quarters later. OK. All good.
Then entered a new atlas, named it, selected the source as List scanned WMS, selected zoom levels 9, 10 & 11. Thought that should give me something.
Although when I played with the show coverage areas for various zooms, I got worried.. the coverage areas seemed woefully inexact and were irregular rectangles. Some were out at sea, others only gave me one small rectangle for one zoom level, not covering my selected area well at all. In fact omitting most of it. And I'm talking about a selected area from state centre, out north then west, to just beyond Woolnorth.
Then I selected 100 on the jpgs. Then added the area I selected. It went into the atlas details pane. ok.
So, I was ready to go. I hit "Create Atlas" and it buzzed away, downloading tiles (forget how many.. a reasonable amount. Only took 1 or two minutes), then created the maps.. wonderful. Then "finished". Ok. Then I went to the directory and checked what I had. It had given me 3 separate pdf files (separate ??) of 6 pages each, and in each of them was exactly... nothing! Well, there was a stylized compass at top left, and some small yellow and green rectangles at bottom, but that's it folks.
That's all mobac did for me.
I stand to be corrected here, (the errors are probably mine) but those results are a crock, and not useful to anyone for anything!
Where did all the nice graphics go, that you see on the List scanned maps? I thought I'd get a nice big pdf of a quarter of the state, that I could zoom in to see all the scanned map details.. roads, tracks, contours, vegetation zones, rivers, etc etc. ????
Any answers?