There are still some environments where a smartphone won’t do, and you need the battery life and weather resistance of a dedicated GPS. SAR is one of those environments, but it’s also one that demands accurate, high-quality maps. Once you’ve gotten used to tracking your location on a satellite image, or dodging cliffs on a […]
Long distance hiking leaves plenty of time for reflection, and an accelerated JMT trip I did this fall was no exception. Despite being armed with maps and elevation profiles, I realized that I still wasn’t aware whether a given day would be spent in shady forests or on barren, south-facing slopes. I’d also been pondering […]
I’ve received a few emails asking where the KMZ link in the left bar went. It’s been replaced by a print-to-KMZ option: Why? Because instead of just map layers, KMZ exports can now have markers and lines “printed” on them. These are not traditional KML placemarks – for that, use the standard Export option. Instead, […]
If you’ve ever wanted to change the color on a number of lines at once, the new bulk operations feature will nicely complement folders. The Markers and Shapes boxes, along with folders, now have a Bulk Ops link at the bottom. Bulk operations can only be run on one object type at a time, so […]
Over the years I’ve had a number of users ask for a way to organize markers, lines and polygons within a map. There have also been requests for a way to print only some objects, or to print markers with labels and shapes without, and so on. Today’s post covers a new way to do […]
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