Description
I use this program (a set of Python scripts in fact) to generate background images for GPSMan (the original ncc.up.pt page is no longer available). It's not so reusable for the way I reference maps doesn't correspond to the "usual" way (the GeoTiff way for instance). However I think the method I use is the fastest when you just want to reference a set of scanned paper maps. I simply mark 3 points on the scanned image, and store their coordinates "in the real world" (WGS84) and in the image (pixels) in a plain text file. The script does the rest, and it's capable of merging several scans into a single background image, doing affine corrections.
Use at your own risks.
- gpsman-background-20050621.tar.gz (md5:
a7c12039d83c9862289c78ff299fe3ad)