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Unexpected gift from Global Mapper... / 13.03.2010...
Hi to All,

Last days I've downloaded some abt 250 000 tiles (jpg+map pairs...) of a huge map... Total size abt 3.5 GB...
I was thinking "How to deal with" such a huge map-set... My fault and shame on me...
I was ignoring GM MapCatalog capabilities..., expecting that my "own" catalogues on HDD are good enough for my needs... But it wasn't true...
Today I've RCVD following reply from our Guru - Mike.. and I wish to share his reply with all of You, Global Mapper Users... making the same error as me..

Quote:
I think the map catalog is what you want to do. When you create the map catalog you specify when you want the maps in the map catalog to be loaded and displayed. This can be at a particular zoom scale, or when the map bounding boxes take up at least a certain percentage of the screen. If you edit your map catalog so that the maps show up sooner, then you simply have to zoom into an area and when you are zoomed in far enough the map tiles will automatically load and display. The map catalog will also handle automatically unloading maps as they are no longer needed, thus allowing you to work with huge quantities of mapping data without memory issues.
The map catalog will do exactly that, automatically loading maps as needed for display and export and unloading them when no longer needed.
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O tym musicie wiedzieć...
Długo trwałem w błędzie uważając, że moje własne katalogi map i danych porządkowane skrupulatnie i opisane zapewnią mi swobodę odszukania potrzebnych składników... Ostatnio pojawił się jednak temat "zagospodarowania" i ogarnięcia tysięcy "tiles=kafelków" dużej i dokładnej mapy... ja z tym pracować, jak odszukać waściwy akurat potrzebny...
Zapytałem Mike, tak jak wielu innych poszukujących nowych rozwiązań na Forum GM.
I tak jak zwykle, okazuje się, że wszystko w GlobalMapper już było i JEST !...

Właściwie skonfigurowany GM Map Catalog umożliwia płynną pracę na bardzo dużych zbiorach źródłowych bez obciążania systemy ładowaniem ich w całości... Po konfiguracji MC program aktywnie wyszukuje brakujące fragmenty (kafelki) przy przesuwaniu ekranu i pozbywa się aktualnie "zbędnych" wychodzących poza bieżący obszar roboczy...

Sami oceńcie co to oznacza dla sprawnej pracy...

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source:
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