{"id":125,"date":"2009-05-07T04:28:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T04:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravtrack.com\/GPStracking\/?p=125"},"modified":"2009-05-07T04:29:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T04:29:02","slug":"customizing-your-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravtrack.com\/GPStracking\/customizing-your-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Customizing Your Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many ways to customize the map you use with your RavTrack PC vehicle tracking program.\u00a0\u00a0 RavTrack PC uses any bitmap image, scanned map,\u00a0 jpeg photo, or geotiff file as the base-map to display vehicle location.\u00a0 Simply load your image\/map into the calibration tool (mapmanger), and then calibrate 3 points with known latitude and longitude and the map is ready to use.\u00a0 Note: .geotiff files are already have their calibration embedded into them so they do not need to be calibrated for use with RavTrack PC.<\/p>\n

Your customization options are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Add custom icons to the map file<\/li>\n
  2. Importing Points of Interest (POIs) and identifying them on the map.<\/li>\n
  3. Import and overlaying ESRI shape files.<\/li>\n
  4. Manually place Points of Interest (POIs) on the map and label them.<\/li>\n
  5. Draw colored line, poly-shapes, ovals, circles, rectangles, and squares on the map.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Once the map is calibrated, you can import custom icons right into the emap file.<\/p>\n

    1. Adding Custom Icons on the map<\/h2>\n

    All icons in RavTrack PC<\/em> are actually small .jpg of .bmp files which are loaded into the .maplib file and given a name.\u00a0 By naming the icon, you are able to assign it to tracked vehicles\/objects or simply place it on the map as a POI.\u00a0 As a POI, you are able to create alert rules to notify the operator when vehicle get too close or too far away from the POI.<\/p>\n

    To import a custom icon made as a\u00a0 .jpg of .bmp file, first open the map file you would like the icons to be associated with.\u00a0 Note, RavTrack PC<\/em> comes with a rich set of default icons stored in the standardicons.maplib<\/em> file, but you may load your own custom icons into any .maplib map file or load them into the standardicons.maplib<\/em> file and have them available to all maps.<\/p>\n

    To open and edit the .maplib file, select Tools > Map Creation Tool <\/strong><\/em>from the RavTrack PC<\/em> main screen.\u00a0 This will open the GpsToolsStudio from Franson, which is the tool used to calibrate maps and load icons.\u00a0 Load the .maplib<\/em> file you wish to insert you custom icons into, and the choose Icons > New Icon <\/strong><\/em>to import the icon craphic into the map.\u00a0 Don’t forget to save your .maplib file once the icon is imported and named.<\/p>\n

    2. Importing Points of Interest (POIs) and identifying them on the map.<\/h2>\n

    RavTrack PC<\/em> is an exceptional vehicle tracking software program.\u00a0\u00a0 It excels at locating tracked vehicles, alerting the operator of special conditions, and presenting a complex AVL system in a very user-friendly manor.\u00a0 But, it is not as powerful as some other program are in the area of GIS, route planning, and map manipulation.\u00a0 The good news is, that most progams can export in various standard file formats, and RavTrack can import data in a number of different format.\u00a0 This allows you to do complex mapping and planning using any number of mapping tools, and then import your waypoints and tracks into RavTrack PC.<\/p>\n

    A common task is to plan an event such as a road-rally, marathon, or race.\u00a0 Ozi Explorer and Global Mapper are just a couple very powerful programs that a user can create routes and place waypoints on their maps.\u00a0 Once your plan is complete, save the waypoints in either an Ozi .wpt waypoint file, or in Garmin’s .gpx file format.\u00a0 From RavTrack PC, select File > Import Tracks, Plots, Waypoints<\/strong><\/em> from the main screen.\u00a0 When using the .gps file format, you must choose the “Import as POI” option to put the waypoints onto the map’s POI layer.<\/p>\n

    3. Import and overlaying ESRI shape files.<\/h2>\n

    RavTrack PC<\/em> can import some ESRI shape files and overlay them on the map image.\u00a0 Certain large files do not import but most ESRI shape files less than a few MB seem to load and display properly.\u00a0 From RavTrack PC, select File > ESRI FIles…<\/strong><\/em> from the main screen.\u00a0 Select your ESRI shape file to import it onto the map.<\/p>\n

    The default settings for the ESRI shape import files is configured with the File > Program Properties > ESRI Data<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

    4. Manually place Points of Interest (POIs) on the map and label them.<\/h2>\n

    You may place any icon at any location on the map as a Point of Interest.\u00a0 To do so, select File > Drawing Tools<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 This will bring up the drawing toolkit.<\/p>\n

    \"drawingtool\"<\/p>\n

    Select “Point of Interest” as the type of object to draw.\u00a0 Then select the name of the icon you wish to place on the map.\u00a0 Once selected, click on the location on the map that you would like the POI placed.\u00a0 Once you click on the map, a box will pop-up so you can assign the POI a name such as “Joes House”.\u00a0 Once you have placed all the POIs on the map, they may then be used in the Alert Rules you create.<\/p>\n

    You may also turn the POI layer of the map on or off.\u00a0 On the top of the main RavTrack PC<\/em> main screen is a drop-down box, where you can select which layers are visible on the map.<\/p>\n

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    View DropDown<\/p><\/div>\n

    5. Draw colored line, poly-shapes, ovals, circles, rectangles, and squares on the map.<\/h2>\n

    Using the Drawing Toolkit, you may place graphics on your map at any location.\u00a0 To do so, select File > Drawing Tools<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 This will bring up the drawing toolkit.\u00a0 Select the Map Graphics layer, select your shape and the color of the shape, and then draw it on the map.\u00a0 When drawing polygons, press the enter key when done drawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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