TrueNorth Geospatial now supports downloading maps to certain Garmin GPS units. Map data loaded and displayed in TrueNorth including raster, vector, tiles, and GeoPDFs can be exported as a KML Overlay in a KMZ file and downloaded to GPS units that support this feature. There is no configuration necessary and TrueNorth automates the generation of the images and georeferencing …
What’s this? A screenshot that isn’t a map? Yes, boring, but it demonstrates the various capabilities we are planning for TrueNorth — check out the layers we have here under development. Hopefully the layers speak for themselves, but here’s a quick summary. Grid Layer: draws the graticule and what cartographer’s call map furniture: these are …
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. …