QGIS and Falcon BMS guide.
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According to this (the green ticked answer)
https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/22067/loading-adf-files-into-qgis/22077
.adf files can be used in Arcgis and load the data from the succesfully. -
From the pdf :
To calculate your theater CRS you must have one thing only.
The center coordinates of your theater area.Coordinates in what format ?
“bms coordinates” ?
QGIS “coordinates” (from the program?) (I’m just installing it now, and I downloaded your video, where I see you
refer to coordinates there).Then to calculate the CRS you must ask me or a BMS dev to create it for you until we have a public way of
calculation…. <todo>Once you have the theater CRS string you must enter it in QGIS as a custom CRS.
To do so you go to Settings -> Custom Projections</todo>Have any of you guys created a theatre using QGIS ?
Does QGIS replace the DCW data ?
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Real world coordinates in wgs84.
Yeap Manos used QGIS for Georgia as far as I know.
He didn’t start with QGIS he had already started the theater and then populated staff via QGIS usage.
well DCW IIRC are way old and haven’t been updated for many years.
Nowadays and specially with OSM the GIS data are pouring like rain everywhere.Imagine QGIS as a data creator, container and manipulator. Keep track of your data and states, filter them and use what you want.
You can export the data in excel format in Falcon coordinates and import them in te_new.tac -
How are you calculating the CRS ?
Your pdf has lots of great info in it, but you stopped short of the thing I’m really interested in :
- converting the data to what BMS needs in the theatre directory.
Do you know how to do that ? … and haven’t updated the doc yet ?
Or is that something you are still trying to figure out ?
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How are you calculating the CRS ?
Your pdf has lots of great info in it, but you stopped short of the thing I’m really interested in :
- converting the data to what BMS needs in the theatre directory.
Do you know how to do that ? … and haven’t updated the doc yet ?
Or is that something you are still trying to figure out ?
Stuff here is kinda mixed, but technically the CRS will be calculated using Transverse Mercator.
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How are you calculating the CRS ?
Your pdf has lots of great info in it, but you stopped short of the thing I’m really interested in :
- converting the data to what BMS needs in the theatre directory.
Do you know how to do that ? … and haven’t updated the doc yet ?
Or is that something you are still trying to figure out ?
Oh I do know and it’s already used and tested and kinda easy once you get familiar with it.
Just too many things in my hands…
I’ll update asap aka in 3-4 weeks. -
Oh I do know and it’s already used and tested and kinda easy once you get familiar with it.
Just too many things in my hands…
I’ll update asap aka in 3-4 weeks.I don’t need the “pretty version”
Just give me the “crib notes” … brief & terse
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Reproject the layer with data to your theater crs.
Edit the table data layer.
add 2 columns like X and Y.
For X set it to $x (from geometry)
For Y set it to $y (from geometry)
exit editing mode to save the new columns and their calculated data.
Now your X Y will be instead of real world coordinates Falcon coordinates thus from 0,0 to 1023,1023.
Export the layer as xls or csv whatever you like.
Export te_new.tac from Mission Commander by Falcas as csv.
Open the two files and merge what you want like.
Import the new file via MC and you are ready with your new objectives.Those are your dirty “crib notes”.
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I know I wrote "brief & terse " …
But I should have added “for someone who has never created a theatre in bms”.
Reproject the layer with data to your theater crs.
Well, again I ask … how do I calculate the crs ?
Edit the table data layer.
add 2 columns like X and Y.
For X set it to $x (from geometry)
For Y set it to $y (from geometry)
exit editing mode to save the new columns and their calculated data.
Now your X Y will be instead of real world coordinates Falcon coordinates thus from 0,0 to 1023,1023.
Export the layer as xls or csv whatever you like.
Export te_new.tac from Mission Commander by Falcas as csv.
Open the two files and merge what you want like.Import the new file via MC and you are ready with your new objectives.
“Ready” to do what ?
How do I generate the minimal files needed, to be able to pick a theatre within BMS ?
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I know I wrote "brief & terse " …
But I should have added “for someone who has never created a theatre in bms”.
Well, again I ask … how do I calculate the crs ?
Edit the table data layer.
add 2 columns like X and Y.
For X set it to $x (from geometry)
For Y set it to $y (from geometry)
exit editing mode to save the new columns and their calculated data.
Now your X Y will be instead of real world coordinates Falcon coordinates thus from 0,0 to 1023,1023.
Export the layer as xls or csv whatever you like.
Export te_new.tac from Mission Commander by Falcas as csv.
Open the two files and merge what you want like.“Ready” to do what ?
How do I generate the minimal files needed, to be able to pick a theatre within BMS ?
u can’t calculate the CRS. Edit: Unless u are a GIS knowledgeable person and can calculate it for Transverse Mercator.
just give me the theater center real coordinates in wgs84.
Ready to do what?
well u have GIS data as points on the map in a known official CRS format.
if u have them in QGIS how do u export it for falcon?
Falcon projection is a flat Earth and uses instead of real coordinates X,Y values ranged from 0 to 1023 thus 1024 and those are kilometers as are the kilometers of a 64 segments theater…
Oh dear u make me write stuff that are kinda in the guide, but anyway I’m expecting such…so u have GIS data that you want to import in Falcon as objectives like cities factories bridges and whatever u want within limits of the DB. In order to be able to do so (import to Falcon) u must convert real coordinates to Falcon coordinates.
There comes in the Falcon theater CRS. This tells to QGIS that this 1024km (1Kkm for short) area will use a different CRS and will start here and end here and will be kinda flat (well all projections are kinda flat, or ellipsoid or cylindrical but they end up represented in a flat screen).
when u have the correct CRS in QGIS and u reproject the data u got to the theater CRS then when u tell QGIS tell me it’s geometry X and Y instead of Lat and Lon it will give u something like x=450 y=891. Feeding that to the te_new.tac CSV file as a new line and name it and add all the rest of the columns needed and import it back via MC you will have a new objective.
Now instead of doing it one by one to place name etc via MC you can get all the GIS data cities airports bridges and whatever and import them at once in MC like if you start a brand new theater.