We’re wearing our playoff beards over here at TrueNorth (well, those of us who can grow them); we’re working very hard at the Alpha release, but we just can’t contain our excitement at some of the things we’re dialing in. Today, it’s Google Maps. To be clear, this isn’t a feature that we’ve spent a …
This post is a little technical, so my apologies. The intent is to illustrate the ease of developing extensions to TrueNorth to support geospatial standards. So yesterday I was doing some research on the “scheme” (commonly know as the “protocol”) portion of a URL. Most of you are familiar with the http or https in an url. …
Today we had a bug to fix; some eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that the scale bar was incorrect in the previous two screenshots. In the process of fixing the bug we found that it was useful to compare the same area drawn in two separate map windows using different base map data: one using the Topographic …
In the past two days we’ve implemented an OpenStreetMap layer that polls imagery (tiles) down from the OpenStreetMap servers. You can use OSM, and other “tile servers” such as Google Maps, Bing Maps, and even ArcGis Tile Server. Screenshot below Unlike the last post, this is a true screen shot, showing some of the UI. If …
A screenshot of the latest build of TrueNorth. This is the Joffre Group, just north of Pemberton, British Columbia Technically, this isn’t a screenshot. One of the basic plugins saves whatever’s on screen as a PNG; this is the screen without the decorations and controls. Note the presence of the UTM grid; one of the …
There are many ways to represent coordinates. We designed TrueNorth to handle that, so you don’t have to.