Just out of curiosity, how did you force the background to be so dark? That doesn't look like the Night Mode setting (expert mode on the Behavior tab).

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Tony via groups.io <73GUDDX@...>
Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2025 5:42 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] World Map For HF APRS

Andrew:

Download went smoothly and the world map is working. I did notice some missing map segments. As you can see from the attached screenshots, I prefer a dark background, and I was wondering if there's a way to change the label font colors so they show up on those darker colors.

Thanks,

Tony

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Andrew P. via groups.io <andrewemt@...>
Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2025 12:23 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] World Map For HF APRS

You just have to download an area of map tiles larger than 500 mile radius.

However, someone discovered a bug in the downloader, so, in your configured tiledir directory, there will be a file incorrectly named planet.ways.gz, which should be renamed to planet.ways; ity was decompressed upon download, but the wrong filetype was used for the file.

This download bug will be fixed in the next build of YAAC.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Tony via groups.io <73GUDDX@...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2025 11:32 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] World Map For HF APRS

Andrew:

>Also, YAAC does support a lower-resolution form of the imported OpenStreetMap data that only does national boundaries. To get the planet-level map file, make sure your download range for OSM map tiles covers more than 8 degrees (about 500 nautical miles or 800 kilometers) when you are downloading the tiles.

Can you please give a more detailed (preferably step-by-step) description on how to accomplish this?

Thank you.

Tony



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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Andrew P. via groups.io <andrewemt@...>
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2024 6:44 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] World Map For HF APRS

Regarding your two questions:

1. YAAC can import raster map images for a background. However, they are a pain to pin to the grid so the coordinate system is known properly, so I recommend using UTM-coordinate images with an associated .wld file to provide the pinning information.

Also, YAAC does support a lower-resolution form of the imported OpenStreetMap data that only does national boundaries. However, it's a bit sloppy because the boundary map lines aren't consistently identified, so YAAC has trouble finding all of them. To get the planet-level map file, make sure your download range for OSM map tiles covers more than 8 degrees (about 500 nautical miles or 800 kilometers) when you are downloading the tiles; YAAC will then assume you are going to be zoomed out enough to need the planet file and will download it too.

2. The graticule grid lines can be turned off by unchecking the menu choice View->Layers->Lat/Lon Graticule.

Hope this helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Tony via groups.io <73GUDDX@...>
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2024 12:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [yaac-users] World Map For HF APRS

All:

I'm new to YAAC and I was wondering if it's possible to import a simple World Map? My primary interest is HF APRS so there's no need for a detailed street map. Also wondering if it's possible to remove the grid lines.

Thanks, Tony