Egbert Drenth 52 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Hi, Anyone already converted a Navigraph Enroute Chart and an ILS Approach map to FSMap. If so, can you show me a picutre? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bern 0 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Hi I use Navigraph pretty much exclusively for approach charts outside of the UK. The Lat/Lon references are extremely accurate in my experience. Obviously they are not free, but you do get a complete set of airport charts for pennies. Very good value I think. Obviously their conversion for use in FSM is an issue. I'm afraid I don't have an instant conversion kit. I do it the tedious way - print out the charts I want then scan 'em in and save as Tif files. The result is not crystal clear but eminently useable. Bern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Molitor 24 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Another way is to use a virtual image printer driver, which converts the Navigraph charts to JPG or TIF. Regards Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egbert Drenth 52 Posted January 20, 2008 Author Share Posted January 20, 2008 Ok, thanks, But it is confimred they can be imported in FSMap, or more specifically: They can be callibrated correctly; no issues with the chart projection? EDIT: Never mind, I just saw this picture in another posting: http://www.forum.aerosoft.com/files/navigraph_154.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chevy 2 Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 Another way is to use a virtual image printer driver, which converts the Navigraph charts to JPG or TIF. Regards Thomas Perhaps it would be very useful to provide us with a link for a freeware virtual image printer driver which fulfills that task... Thanks Christian PS: I found out that PDFCreator seems to be a pretty good and easy tool to convert PDF into jpeg/bmp. It also works as a virtual printer driver (even under Vista) and importing a Navigraph approach chart into FSMap was pretty easy. No problems with calibration or anything at all. Nevertheless it is much work to import and calibrate all those charts. An automatic process would be highly appreciated. What about a collaboration of Navigraph and FSMap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted January 20, 2008 Aerosoft Share Posted January 20, 2008 Nevertheless it is much work to import and calibrate all those charts. An automatic process would be highly appreciated. If it would be possible we would certainly have done it. But in the end it's a bitmap and FSMap needs to know the locations of some element and projection type of the map. There just is no way around that. It's basically the same process you need to do with any charting tool, or the many GPS tools that are available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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