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View: Tour Map The tour map view can display the selected tour in a map when position data are available. The view can be opened with this  icon in the toolbar or from the menu with Views/Tour Map.
Content shortcuts Map Features
Map Provider
Dim the Map
Geoclipse With support from the Geoclipse project the implementation of the map into MyTourbook was very easy and with less effort which I thought is necessary. Map Licence
To have no trouble with map licences, only maps can be selected from map servers which provide free available map images. Offline Map The images for a map are downloaded from an internet server and can be stored locally for offline usage when the offline option is selected in the preference dialog.
Map Features
Map Toolbar Actions Mouse Actions | Double-Click | zoom into the map, the mouse position will be the center of the zoomed map
| | Scroll-Wheel | zoom in and out of the map | | Left-Mouse-Button | pressing the left button and moving the mouse will pan the map
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View Actions The view menu has additional actions and options for the map | Show Start/End In Map | show/hide the start and end marker in the map | | Show Legend In Map | show/hide the legend in the map | | Show Slider In Map | show/hide a marker in the map for the left and right slider in the tour chart | | Show Slider In Legend | show/hide the slider value in the legend for the left and right slider in the tour chart
| | Move To Default Position | move the map to the default position whatever position is displayed currently | | Set Current Position As Default | set's the current position and zoom level as the default position, this position is used when the application starts and the map is displayed | | Zoom Level For Selected Tour | when the map is synchronized with the selected tour  the Default Level shows the whole tour, the other levels will zoom out |
Map Provider The map providers can be selected in the drop-down box
| OpenStreetMap | is the standard map from OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap-Cycle
| is a cycle map but this is very new and not yet completed, but you can improve it as described here | SRTM
| this map is not loaded from the internet, it is painted within this application and is based on the following data: - SRTM data is sampled at 3 arc-seconds, which is about 90 meters (295 feet) in N-S-direction
- GLOBE data for large-scale maps with a grid of 30 arc-seconds or approx. 1 km (0.6 miles)
- ETOPO5 with a grid of 5 arc-minutes or approx. 10 km (6 miles)
This map is drawing the same elevation with the same color but the color for each elevation can be customized. The customization is done in the preference dialog which is described here. ... please be patient ... When this map displays a location which was never displayed before, the elevation data will be downloaded automatically. This will delay the painting of the map but the data files are downloaded only once and are saved locally for reuse. The download status is displayed in the status line when the tile info is not hidden, this can be defined here. | Hide Map
| this will hide the map, the tour can still be displayed
| OpenStreetMap-Tile@Home
| this map is more updated then the general map and has another styling | | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | this map is based on satellite images and does not contain streets, it has a lower resolution compared with the OpenStreetMap | | Change Map Provider List... | see below |
Action: Change map provider list - the order of the map providers can be changed with the Up and Down buttons for the selected map provider
- the checked map providers can be toggled with the map provider button, see below
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Action: Toggle map provider To change the map provider very easily, they can be toggled with this button | |
Dim the map The map can be dimmed from 0% to 100% to improve the contrast between the tour and the map. The background color can be set in the preference dialog  , default is black. Setting the background color to white will brighten the map.
Setting the dim level
Examples with different dim levels |
