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Map centre coordinates can be obtained directly from 'Google Earth' cursor position when viewing your loca

for direct entry into Radio Mobile. But for 'local' movement of the map area read on.

For large movements of position click here.

Use of the World map

To re-centre a map to a point which is visible on it, all that is required is a 'double click' at the required

location. This opens the Map Properties pane with its existing size and height, but with the new centre coordinentered.

An 'Alternate World map' feature was added to RM in Version 8.8.1 which, if implemented, can also be as in Use of the World map.

As an example of a local 'longer distance' map centre location change, (from the Peak District to Cambridg

the Map Properties pane of the Base Network has been opened ('File/Map Properties'). In this, the map heighfirst been changed to 300km.

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Which can then be 'Merged/Copy' with a road map and 'Kept in new picture' to produce:



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The cursor can be seen placed on 'Cambridge' with a click on its location, and this location will be used as mcentre in the Map Properties pane by clicking on the 'Use Cursor position ' button. Alternatively, as above, adouble click will also open the map properties pane, but the map height has also been returned to 30km.



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A click on 'Extract' once more then produces the designated area map.



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and a road map, produced by a 'Merged/copy' - and 'kept in new picture', can be used to check the locatioas required.



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The Map, Map Picture and Road map of the new location may then be saved underNew Names. Unwantepictures should be closed, the Map picture may be modified by addition of contours - possibly 'merged/multipwith a greyscale version of the road map, and saved as shown. After Units have been placed on the area theNetwork can also be saved.



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Large movements of the map centre location:

For stations located outside Eurasia, once you have installed the 'Base Network ', it is very simple to

change the map location to your area of the world.



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For direct location entry, you can enter Lat/Long or QRA data by using the appropriate buttons. Your exact

location can be found by viewing your area in Google Earth, and then making a note of the cursor coordinatefor entry into Radio Mobile using the 'Enter Lat Lon' button.

Use of the World Map

Another powerful location feature in Radio Mobile is the World Map - available from 'View/World Map',

or if displayed, by clicking the toolbar icon



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This causes the display of a World Map, where a 'Double click' on any location will open the Map Properties

pane with that cursor location entered as map centre. The designated World Regions for SRTM data can be se

on the map above.



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As an additional feature it is also possible to save your local country overview map under the name of

'Wmap' in .bmp or .jpg format in the RM directory root as an alternateinitial World Map display - the mabeing displayed can be toggled to the World view using 'View/ Swap World map' command. This enables thquick re-centring of map areas with a double click of the mouse.

Alternate World map

The alternate World map shown below is one I have generated for the UK, and is available in my Base Netw- and also from my Downloads page. This map can be replaced to show your own local area of interest bychanging Wmap.jpg (or to Wmap.bmp) and Wmap.dat to your own generated files.



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Finally, the map height and size can be changed to suit your requirements. Clicking 'Extract' will then caunew map to be drawn - but it will be elevation data only.

For stations in Eurasia, only the map centre coordinates need to be changed in 'Map Properties' as the elev

data source is already setup for that area.

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