I have Windows 10 and Android 11.
I am working on a project with multiple very large apartment complexes.
I have a paper colored apartment complex map for each complex.
The map does not seem to be online so it's a paper handout only.
At each complex I'm expected to visit a set of given units each day for
various reasons and all they give me is this paper map to find each unit.
That works. But it's inefficient.
They do this to everyone, not just to me.
We're expected to use the paper map with hundreds of apartments and dozens
of buildings, where the numbering system for buildings usually makes sense
but not for the apartments. Sometimes we even need to visit parking spaces
as we have vehicles parked which we have to put notices on where the
numbers make no sense on purpose for security reasons.
Only AFTER I find a given location, I've been using OSMand+ to save the
current position. First off I'm surprised that OSMAnd+ doesn't have a "Save Current Location" option which I thought almost all map programs would have had.
So what I do is establish my current location & long press the blue dot.
These apartments all have individual outside entrances so it's not like a
hotel where you go down a long hallway to serially find the door number you need.
When I get to the right apartment door I step outside the entrance on the ground floor and press as close as I can on the blue location dot which
pops up a "Looking up address" OSMAnd+ menu which usually gives the same address for all locations. Then I press the "Add" star and change the name
to "Complex Bathroom" or "Complex Pool" or more commonly "ComplexBldgApt"
such as "RedwoodApts Bldg15 Apt489" or "RedwoodApts Lot15 Spot489" or
something like that.
Once I've renamed the current pressed location, I hit Save and then I can navigate walking after that where OSM can talk me through the steps even
when the phone is in my pocket and my hands are full.
Having to fatfinger the location isn't as accurate as having a "Save
Current Location" button would be but it's definitely good enough for government work as they say.
When I need to navigate to a given spot I first point the phone north with
a compass app because moving compass navigation directions aren't so easy
when walking and then I orient the OSM map toward that heading to get my initial bearings of which way to start walking and about how far it will
be. Usually I'm carrying tools or supplies so my hands are almost always
full.
That's all I need but I'm working with others from the local work to future group where everyone else wastes time trying to find the building & apt.
What I want is make a local geospatial pdf of the paper colored apartment complex map which I can then hand to each person whose phone can then point
to the location.
All of that brings me to my question of how to make that geospatial map.
The first method that was suggested that I tried and failed at was to
download the OSM map tiles and then try to modify them with the specific apartment and building information to try to use them inside the OSM app.
I wasn't able to download Google satellite image map tiles because of the limitations of the tiny portable laptop without any Python or C++ on it.
https://github.com/AliFlux/MapTilesDownloader
But I found a way to download the apartment OSM map tile as an osm file.
https://blog.richmond.edu/sal/2017/10/30/downloading-open-street-map-osm-data/
From Windows Firefox I used the OSM web interface to export *.osm tiles.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/export#map=18/{latitude}/{longitude}
Then I converted that exported *.osm file online to a series of SHP files.
http://mygeodata.cloud/
These SHP files are actually of a bunch of formats inside a zip archive. amenity_polygons-polygon.cpg
amenity_polygons-polygon.dbf
amenity_polygons-polygon.prj
amenity_polygons-polygon.shp
amenity_polygons-polygon.shx
buildings-polygon.cpg
buildings-polygon.dbf
buildings-polygon.prj
buildings-polygon.shp
buildings-polygon.shx
landcover-polygon.cpg
landcover-polygon.dbf
landcover-polygon.prj
landcover-polygon.shp
landcover-polygon.shx
roads-line.cpg
roads-line.dbf
roads-line.prj
roads-line.shp
roads-line.shx
But I'm at a loss what to do with these SHP files inside of OSMAnd or
inside of any app, for that matter.
In a second approach, I followed up on the suggestion to create a geo
spatial PDF using Adobe Acrobat but so far I'm failing miserably.
https://get.adobe.com/reader/
From these instructions it will only work with Acrobat 9 & above
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/interacting-geospatial-pdfs/ https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/geospatial-pdfs.html
I found the latest full offline Adobe Acrobat Reader installer here.
https://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/ https://ardownload2.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/2200220191/AcroRdrDC2200220191_en_US.exe
But I think it maybe needs the Acrobat Writer and not the Acrobat Reader.
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/acrobat-and-reader-9-and-geospatial/
Does anyone know if the reader can create the geospatial PDFs?
Or just the writer?
As a third approach, I'm currently trying this QGIS tutorial.
http://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/3/georeferencing_basics.html
The main problem with QGIS is it won't work with the HP Stream laptop.
Nothing you can do that is below super human will get it to install.
But I found a portable GIS version 6 that installs onto a removable drive.
https://portablegis.xyz/
https://download.astuntechnology.com/home/ (login=pgis,password=pgis)
https://download.astuntechnology.com/home/portablegis_setup_v60.exe
Does anyone have qgis/pgis that knows if the pgis works like the qgis does?
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