[NLRS] Grid map graphics again?

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

I did locate my US and mexican state boundary files three computers back 
(MS-DOS) along with islands, caribbean, and all US counties. I didn't 
get rivers and interstates and highways, but I can't do a better base 
map that Mike's. And GIMP should edit the grids that are neatly 
surrounded by the grid boundary lines very nicely. GIMP is quite capable 
of changing the picture size in pixels or inches for different 
applications and in saving in most known graphics formats. GIMP is also 
very good at adjusting picture contrast and brightness, both color and 
gray scale for when the scanner or camera didn't optimize those when 
viewed later.

By the way, my drawing program runs only in OS/2 and Ecom Station. And 
it runs thousands of times an hour at Freese-Notis Weather. A few years 
ago weather bug bought animated radar from FNW and the day of the 
Oklahoma City tornadoes the animator program (also mine) did 1.8 million 
animations in a day. Those animations are done on demand by the html 
script calling my program with size and center lat/long along with a 
count of the number of frames desired. The animator runs on Linux.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 10/18/2010 9:45 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
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>
> The reply from Dr Jerry was interesting and I enjoyed looking at
> his links.
>
> The other replies I received directly either recommended a logging
> program from Europe called VQLog. It costs about $30 which is not
> too bad. You can see some examples of the maps it prepares at:
> http://www.vhfdx.info/statisti.html  Just click on some of the
> maps of locators.
>
> The other answer that was helpful was that Mike KM0T offers a
> basemap at:
> http://www.km0t.com/pages/grids/USAGRID-BASE.gif
>
> You can see some examples of how he colors them in (and crops them
> down where appropriate) at:
> http://www.km0t.com/pages/grids.htm
>
> Mike explains that he "... takes just seconds to fill a grid
> in with the "paintbrush" tool in the basic windows jpg editor.  I
> have a
> blank gif on my website for the taking if you need it. Save it as
> a gif or jpg."
>
> So pending any other replies (that I'll be glad to summarize) I
> will probably use Mike's basemap and still use GIMP (to use it not
> lose it).
>
> 73
> Bruce W9FZ
>
>
> "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S.
> Thompson
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