Discussion: QR

Ian very nicely posted a scan of the whole map, so slicing the gps track not required.

Came home to realize that. Will try to post!

By using your split cumulative time and QR total time, you can slide the cursor along the route to get pretty close to the control's time. Then move that point to the center of the circle. It works, but a lot of distortion can be built in along the way.

Didn't think of that! Very helpful where route/course is a wavey line w/o much in way of IDer's. Still not sure of significance of blue dot with blue circle or how red dot etc is designated. Maybe had I made a contribution...?

The Red Dot is your position along the line as you move the cursor along the gps track or along the scale at the bottom. The blue dot seems to appear once you have pressed the mouse button indicating you want that piece of the track. It will be surrounded by the blue circle until you release the mouse button at the desired point. Once you have proceeded, I found it difficult to go back to undo a prior point - not the last, you can do that by the Undo button. Any prior to that seem to be unchangeable. But I may not have pursued it enough.

Have a great T'day.

If I could use QR on this Mac desktop, I'd probably know considerably more about it.
I installed Parallels on the Mac laptop but the visual experience is small & so I spend little time pursuing/playing w/ QR. Maybe I'll try Parallels here eventually but have to do the Windows XP step, too - which was enough of a hurdle that I've not considered as of yet.

You, too!

I have to decide on the parallels/XP route or a new cheap PC. Crossover doesn't want to hack it.

Not an easy decision! I bought a used HP PC from Ed Hicks for $200 for OCAD mapping in '07 when Virtual PC for Mac proved unsatisfactory. With the Windows platform, it could do a few other useful, non-O things for me as well (can view all the USGS topos in New England as Windows software and most of the world's (!) nautical charts as well, also Windows-based). With the Parallels solution, however, I have been able to do what I want but have not really strayed from OCAD & QR. I have no answer other than on the Mac Pro laptop, Parallels does what I need w/o any frustration.

Thanks.mguess I'll look for XP disc someplace.

Make sure it is not an XP upgrade disc - need full version. I bought an upgrade unaware and that proved a problem. At that time, I had a IT-type fellow visit the house for a virus on the desktop. I showed him my issue on the laptop. He opened a Windows 2000 disc in it. The computer was satisfied with what it saw & I was in business w/ the XP! Expertise at work. Not even sure where the disc is at the moment. Look on line for "unopened" full version Windows XP SP3 - quick look showed a professional version here. First one I got had been opened & was scratched etc etc.

Thanks - just ordered it. Will see how it goes.

I'll follow up. Always interested in any software (installation) insight. I find the learning process generally painful but, admittedly, less so with more encounters.
What's a .dmg file:).

.dmg appears to be a type of Mac file to simulate a disc, or something. See reference.

Just kidding. ?'s never end:-).

Well, being from the PC world, I had no idea they existed. So did learn a bit but not sure what it does mean.