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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve just been playing with the new maps on/off feature a little more. These are just some observations.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There seems to be a bug regarding map altitudes in all cases, and scrap altitudes where the scraps are empty. On the other hand it is a good way to highlight the existence of empty scraps!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The notes below may not be particularly coherent, but together with the attached log files, you should be able to figure out what is going on.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Setting maps to off quadruples compile time and increases pdf size by 15 times (not sure why that should be).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u>Maps off<o:p></o:p></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>On running a project with 614 scraps reported;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>This log entry was caused by an empty scrap definition, regardless of whether the empty scrap appears in a map definition<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'>S -8999999999999999900000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.00 04-BangAndBeyondPlan-s2@BlackSabbath ()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>ie<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'>scrap 04-BangAndBeyondPlan-s2 -projection plan -scale [0 0 787.4 787.4 0 0 10 10 m]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'>endscrap<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>It seems I have 16 empty scraps in that project, a legacy of using topparser, and not always using all of the scrap definitions that it creates.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u>Maps on<o:p></o:p></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>On running same project with 254 scraps/maps reported;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>1. Empty Scrap causes map that contains it not to appear in log, sometimes<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'>04-BangAndBeyondPlan-s2@BlackSabbath</span> is empty and for some reason the following map is not reported in the log file at all.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'>map 04-BangAndBeyondPlan -title "04 beyond the capped rock - black sabbath plan" -projection plan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'> 04-BangAndBeyondPlan-s1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'> 04-BangAndBeyondPlan-s2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>endmap<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2. All maps are reported with elevation of;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>M -8999999999999999900000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.00<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>3. Unexplained <span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>empty ‘scrap’</span> reported at high altitude. Looking at my data, I cannot explain why this might happen. In the 254 lines, there are only two of these.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'>M -8999999999999999900000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.00 61-AngelicaPlan@MiddleEarth (61 Angelica plan)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'>S 473.40 61-AngelicaPlan-s1@MiddleEarth ()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'>S 489.54 61-AngelicaPlan-s2@MiddleEarth ()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>S 1219.69 @ ()</span><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'>map 61-AngelicaPlan -title "61 Angelica plan" -projection plan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'> 61-AngelicaPlan-s1 #9C start surveying up pitch<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'> 61-AngelicaPlan-s2 # to base of 20C<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'>endmap<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>4. Similar things happen with projected elevation outputs, but there are many more of empty report lines, as in 3. above, and the altitudes reported seem somewhat random and just wrong. I wonder if the altitudes are really some measure of distance into or out of the ‘page’?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Behaviours seem to be the same whether maps or atlas are exported. Very nice for disabling passage offsets and previews.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bruce<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>