Map Snapper

Map Snapper is an iOS App for your iPhone and iPad that allows you to take a photo of a map, line up a couple of points, and follow your locations on that map photo.

Ever see a map on an information board that showed you where you are?
Ever wish you could take it with you, and see where you were the whole time?

Map Snapper will show you your location, and the direction you are facing.

Adding Controls to Condes

Map Snapper can add and edit control locations onto a map exported from Condes Course Planning Software, and let you export these locations back into Condes.

Map is Geolocated in Condes

• Export Map as KMZ File
  • Make sure there are at least 2 controls on the map
  • Choose Export/Export Courses to GPS…
  • Select “All Controls”
  • Export File Format is “KMZ”
  • “Export” the map
  • Send the KMZ file to your device, and “Open in Map Snapper”
• Export Event Data
  • Choose Export/Export Event Data/Export IOF XML
  • File Type is “IOF Version 3”
  • “Export” the event data
  • Send the XML file to your device, and “Open in Map Snapper”
  • Select the map you just opened, and update location data

How to Snap a Map

Step 1: Take a photo of the map. Try to take is as front on as possible.Hint 1: Use the built in camera app if you want to crop, rotate and fix perspective, then use Map Snapper to add the map from the camera roll.Hint 2: From Safari, you can also save map images to your camera roll and then use them with Map Snapper.

Step 2: Choose an obvious location on your photo, and line up the purple crosshairs on the photo. Find the same location on the map and line up the purple crosshairs on the map. Press the Purple crosshair button to lock this location.

Step 3: Choose another obvious location on your photo, the further away from the purple point the better. Repeat the alignment with the blue crosshairs. Press the Blue crosshair button to lock this location.

Step 4: Check your alignment is good enough by comparing your photo with the map. The photo is transparently overlaid on the map so you can see both. Zoom in and switch between standard and satellite to see how good it is. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but it should be fairly close.If you want to re-align one of the locations, unlock the crosshair, then repeat step 2 or 3.

Tick to complete and you’re good to go. If your current location is within the map, you will see your location on the map.

Note: Most maps on information boards are accurate enough for this simple alignment method to work, however, some may not work due to the map not being to scale.

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