Making a Navagation Map for my new home

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Making a Navagation Map for my new home

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I am trying to use my CF-31 Toughbook for navigation on the lake! I recently bought a boat and now live on a pretty large lake, Lake Lanier. My place is quite humble, but I love it!

I found a page that has a usable map on it and it has been enabled to work with GPS, which I think... involves tying GPS coordinates to two map points.

I found this same page, which uses my map with another program. It only runs on Android and IOS. So, the question is can I use this map, and this information, to plot a course with OpenMaps, or some other Linux Program?

http://www.mobilemaplets.com/showplace/2370
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#2 Post by kode-niner »

Good question. I have dabbled with Linux GPS apps, but never used them to plot any course.

I anticipate someone will show up in this thread suggesting you run some Windows app under Wine.
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Speaking of this... Does anyone have any maps (I'll pay for them) for the northern lakes in Red Lake, Ontario Canada? Little Dixie, Gullrock, Sully, etc around this area??? https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9845886 ... 844,11.75z

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It's been awhile since I played with it, but this distribution is still active and works. Think I sent you a usb stick awhile back.
I was able to download maps and link them into the system and it worked great. They have a great forum also.
http://navigatrix.net/
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Looks neat.
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UNCNDL1 wrote:It's been awhile since I played with it, but this distribution is still active and works. Think I sent you a usb stick awhile back.
I was able to download maps and link them into the system and it worked great. They have a great forum also.
http://navigatrix.net/
Cheers
p.s. here is the documentation:
http://navigatrix.net/nxdoc/index.html
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Yeah, I still have it and played with it a while back then, part of the problem is that I can not get good digital map of Lake Sidney Lanier, so far. This is one that I found on-line, which is pretty simple, and a page that I found that gives some info on using it.http://www.mobilemaplets.com/showplace/2370 ( I know that it says iOS or Android, but I got the same map and hope to use it with some Linux/Windows program. My version of the map is not, "GPS Aware?" But, since it is the same resolution, I am hoping to somehow use it.
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