Category Archives: FAQ

OS Licence

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Our Locality

Ordnance Survey has recently opened up access to a number of products with the launch of OS OpenData on 1 April 2010, under the ‘Making Public Data Public’ initiative. Here’s what they say on the website: OS OpenData will support … Continue reading →

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30 second guide

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Our Locality

Each workstation is currently configured independently, but with a similar setup: Map Maker I is the main community facility Map Maker II is being used by Sue, use the Map Maker profile. Viewing maps or selecting a view to copy … Continue reading →

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Creating KML files from Map Maker

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Our Locality

We can use OGR2OGR a command line opensource programme, that converts between a wide range of different formats. Download info is available here.  FWTools is available on Windows, Mac, Linux. OGR can also reproject the data. ogr2ogr -f “KML” -s_srs … Continue reading →

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How to load the Mastermap data quick!

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Our Locality

If Add a layer to Map Maker or Arc Explorer takes ages to load, the following will see you thru. Add a single raster tile from the area you want to look at first, even at 1:50k it should speed … Continue reading →

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Delete file failed

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Our Locality

Delete file failed is a common error that appears to follow a range of other errors. Temporary files are created by Map Maker in the background. If an error occurs access to the temporary file is interrupted for some reason … Continue reading →

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