[NLRS] Looking for map

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

There is a tendency to eye confusing complexity these days. I studied a 
book or two on graphic design a decade or more ago, and they universally 
recommended a limited number of colors, like 12 to 15 to prevent eyeball 
confusion. I never did convince my weather clients (www.weather.net) to 
keep within that small a palette. We use GIF and so they are hard 
limited to 255 colors.

I'm sure I have data in one or two computers here that would allow my 
radar graphics drawing program to draw a fine grid map with US, state, 
and even county boundaries, and it could have rivers and lakes along 
with major highways. It works with basic lat/long as coordinates for 
everything and has Polyconic and Lambert projections built it. A line 
for a grid separation would take only one command per line, "draw line 
42.0,65.0 42.0,110.0 in color 2" where a previous drawing command "set 
west positive" and "set color 2, 0,0,0" for black. It can create GIF out 
to 3000 x 4000 pixels or larger and can supply text in several fonts, 
including JIS, shift-JIS, and Kanji that include greek and cyrillic as 
well the standard Japanese by thoee standards. It requires someone else 
to identify the Japanese font characters desired, it doesn't translate 
from english. For english text it can fit a paragraph to a map boundary 
doing automatic line breaks (no work splits allowed) by adjusting the 
font size to fit the bonds given. It won't do that in Japanese. It won't 
do Korean or arabic languages. It draws a new national radar map every 5 
minutes 24/7 and another of my programs animates portions of that on 
demand, running as many as a couple million hits a day.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 7/9/2012 3:24 PM, S. Earl Jarosh wrote:
> Gerald,
>
> Yes, after you sent me the last info I searched on those words and came up
> with several Icom stolen maps.  I have printed that and it may be what I
> have to use.  Now with computers it seems people no longer understand the
> simplicity and use of line art.  It is a nice map but I may have to design
> my own as I want to color in each grid in yellow as I complete each grid as
> the ubber professionalism of the marketing dept's art gets in the way of
> that concept.  KOMT has what I thought would be better but the heavy green
> colors in his map it prints out even worse on the printer.
>
>
> S. Earl Jarosh, N0HZ
> Cell:  612.868.1313
> Off:   763.545.3275
> Home:  763.546.7897
> Fax:   763.546.7897
> earl at moneycenters.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nlrs-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:nlrs-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
> Behalf Of Dr. Gerald N. Johnson
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 2:58 PM
> To: S. Earl Jarosh
> Cc: nlrs at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [NLRS] Looking for map
>
>
>
> I didn't find it either so I've resorted to Alta Vista.
> http://w9pvr.com/grid_square.pdf is in color stolen from Icom at
> http://www.icomamerica.com/en/downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?Document=415
>
> http://www.qsl.net/ve2pij/gridsquare.pdf is the one I got from an ARRL
> search hit, two links down and what I have on my other computer.
>
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ