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I took a little bit of a break after creating the tools to generate
normalized "chunks" from sectional images. http://aviationtoolbox.org/munge/mosaic Over the holidays I got back into it and tackled doing something useful with those chunks. I already revealed my map_image tool which generates an image given the upper left and lower right coordinates. https://aviationtoolbox.org/Members/....1&lr_lat=39.6 Now I've created a very simple tool to call map_image for frames along a route. It's called route_map and it takes the departure (from) and destination (to) points. https://aviationtoolbox.org/members/..._lat=39.717329 I wanted to depict the path between the two points but I hate it when a drawn line obscures something important on the sectional. I decided that the line is a lot less important than the sectional image, so as a first shot I made a 2 nm wide highlighted line between the points. I lose it in some terrain, but I have some ideas for solving that. Right now route_map generates 1024x768 images. This is just for testing and will eventually become much more flexible. I have a version that generates marginless US letter-size PDF but the output is *huge*. I'm going to work on that some more. This tool isn't ready for much use and it's likely that I'll break it while I'm working on it but I just got a letter from someone who is anxious to see it so I thought I'd share. Oh, and because I don't have the airport data in Zope yet, for testing it I added links to my nearby airport locator. http://lairds.org/Kyler/flying/flights/nearby_airports If you give an "other airport" you'll get links labeled "sectional route" for each of the airports in the list. Enjoy. --kyler |
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