TrekBuddy

[JonasL]

Hello folks,

for an upcoming trip I'm currently working on creating a topographical map of the southern part of Norway.

Norway government offers basically good topographical map data for free on a basically rather crappy web-application:

www.geonorge.no - hit 'Launch MapViewer'

Also, they do offer a WMS service:
http://wms.geonorge.no/skwms1/wms.topo (topographical data)
http://wms.geonorge.no/skwms1/wms.rutenett (UTM grids)

Those two generate a good topographical map with the UTM grids I want to have.

Now I'm facing some problems: I cannot get any application to work with those wms-servers except the above mentioned rather crappy web-application.

My intent is to get jpg/png files out of that wms servers, calibrate them with UTM grids and use them in trekbuddy. I'm already failing on getting the material into jpg/png format though.

The only possibility I figured out so far is to take screenshots from the web application, however that would take years and years to complete: a 1:50.000 screenshot only covers something like 12:7km in reality...

Another problem is the web-application does not reduces the size of details, but it reduces details to such an extent that a 1:50.000 map in the web-application is close to useless.

Here's my question:
Do you know/have any application that does work with the mentioned WMS servers? If so, which and what settings are required?

Please bear with me if I'm asking stupid questions - I'm quite new to those things, but I'm trying my best. ;)

Thanks in advance,
JonasL

[Mapping]

Hi

I have same interest.
I have been serching some script or small program what create topo map of sweden/norway.

Example. some python script witch download and fetch smallpieces to one large .jpg and .map files.

[JonasL]

I haven't found a perfect solution, but a work-around that does the job for me. The geonorge wms servers seem to deny connections from my computers, only the java-application seems to work for me.
So, I had no choice but use it.

I've run across a program called MapGrabber [url]http://panshin-programming.blogspot.com/2007/06/map-grabber.html[/url].
It creates big .jpg/png/tiff files of adjustable size, taking the data out of any application that allows scrolling by mouse movement, such as the above mentioned web-application of geonorge.

You can possibly also use http://users.skynet.be/hofinger/MapCapt.html, however it limits the size of the maps until you make a donation. I haven't tried it.

It also supports GPS calibration, however I prefer to manually calibrate the maps with GlobalMapper.

Then, use TBCutter and that's it.

Not a perfect solution, but it works quite fine for smaller trekking maps.

[oldman]

[lacop]

MapGrabber?

[kirek123]

Maybe this program will help you http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=124750 (MapRequest)

[guest]

[quote="oldman"]
Anybody seen sea maps for Norway on the net ?[/quote]

The Norwegian government has excellent maps of Norway (both topographical and sea). It's relatively simple to download the tiles, however, I don't know how to calibrate them.
http://kart.statkart.no/adaptive2/default.aspx?gui=1&lang=1

Jarl