Scanning and calibrating paper maps for Oziexplorer

Submitted: Saturday, Apr 19, 2008 at 22:46
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Evening all,

I'm after a few tips regarding the scanning of paper maps to digital format with the intention of calibrating them and using them on OziExplorerCE (PDA).

I've done quite a few - started out photocopying them, then scanning at A4. I had a few grid lines out by a fair margin and a few roads/tracks wouldn't align.

Plan B - photocopying the maps but reducing the size from A3 to A4, then scanning them. The idea being less scanning required - hence less errors. This 'sort' of worked but some scans ended up being approx 1% out - ie gridlines and tracks wouldn't match up.

Has anyone successfully scanned large paper maps and had a seamless end product? I'm still looking out for a large scanner at a printing business that could do a map in one pass - but so far I've only found A3 and the cost is prohibitive.

Any suggestions appreciated!


Tim.
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