Dynamic Zoomable Genuine Kriegsmarine Maps Online

[terrapin]

...see http://U-Boot.Realsimulation.com :)

http://mpgtext.net/pics/uboatcharts.jpg

[JonZ]

It doesn't work for me. All I see is a blank window with Zoomfy logo on center. All maps.

[Sailor Steve]

Pretty cool! :cool:

Thanks once again.

[terrapin]

It doesn't work for me. All I see is a blank window with Zoomfy logo on center. All maps.


Sure you haven't any flash plugins firewalled?

[Evil Duckie]

I couldn't get it to work with Firefox, but it works great on IE

[Tikigod]

Looks great terrapin! :up:


It doesn't work for me. All I see is a blank window with Zoomfy logo on center. All maps.

What is your connection speed? it might take sometime to load because they are hi-res tiles....I noticed mine is a little slower at loading. you initially see the zoomify logo then the image loads in.... then it stays fuzzy for awhile before clearing....the further out you are the longer it takes to load.......so maybe yours is still loading if you are using a slower connection? I am in u.s. and on cable modem...and it takes me a few seconds to load or clear....longer than it would take if I was running it locally which is almost instantaneous....

terrapin did you lower the resolution of your images to 72 dpi? I noticed your maps were 300 for printing....if you lower it to 72 dpi it will increase performance and allow faster load times client side...also lowering the quality of image will help too....I set it to medium to low compression for .jpg on export and you don't notice any quality loss for such a large map on the monitor....its only printing that you would see this lowering quality adjustment....the last thing you can do is reduce the dimensions of the image. If the image is 8000x8000 and at 72 dpi already you can lower it to 6000x6000 this will reduce the size by alot as well...but, then your level of zoom is directly affected. This is the numbers you have to play with to get the optimal zoom you want for how far in you want to see at 100%...some maps like that arent as detailed you don't need to go in as far so you can use this to your advantage when editing.

Your maps that were 30mb in file size (before importing to zoomify) I was able to reduce to 11 MB using the above techniques in photoshop....so if you can get the file size lower you should be able to increase the performance of alot of the loadtimes for peopel visiting the site....hope this helps if you haven't tried these methods already.


couldn't get it to work with Firefox, but it works great on IE

yeah firefox has always had problems with macromedia flash and actionscripts imbedded in the swf's....I'm not sure if its a protection feature to keep them being exposed from security issues with new scripts...or if they just can't keep up with the times with the latest published players by macromedia....but, I have worked on flash sites in the past were you just can't get certain things to display correctly in firefox no matter what you do with actions inside to be friendly with it....and its kinda strange considering macromedia usually goes out of the way to make themselves cross platform...that is their main selling feature among various os's and their media players...but, this issue maybe something internal in firefox that causes these errors...

[frogdog]

Where is it in the downloads? How do you identify?

[Dowly]

Where is it in the downloads? How do you identify?

It´s the 'Uboat Charts' on the menu.

[ref]

The black numbers are depths?, If so what scale?, I've been looking at the chart of the caribbean, and some numbers are 4500+, I don't think there are such depths in that zone.

Ref

[Tikigod]

The black numbers are depths?, If so what scale?, I've been looking at the chart of the caribbean, and some numbers are 4500+, I don't think there are such depths in that zone.

Ref

Should be metric...so I would say meters....the caribbean does have some of the deepest trenches in the world. That is why alot of the islands have active earthquakes....its where the continental plates meet...and the earth swallows itself....the ocean floor alone can go down to 2 miles (a little over 10,000ft) This would closely match your numbers whether it was in meters or feet....not to mention the technology they were using back then...they probably didn't have exact measurements of ocean floors for the depth sounding samples at the time....today they can cover more ground and scan entire ocean bottoms allowing for more accurate numbers....back then it was safer to put + if you weren't sure...I think they did this especially there since the ground is so rigid....causing more room for error....because you can only take an average of the area and who knows if you missed a spot......but, it is pretty fricken deep....I wouldn't want to take a uboat there...

[don1reed]

Excellent work Tikidiety & Land turtle :up:

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Totally COOL Terrapin!!! :up: :up: :up:

[terrapin]

Thanks, m8s,

it was Tikigods idea. I did only a fast job.

@Tikigod - I didn't spent too much time converting @ web-enhancing the maps, but yes, they are all at 72dpi. The 21.000+ files of the system have ~350 Megs, though.

The (fast) server which hosts the dynamic maps is in the EU, this could explain a slight delay for users on other continents...

[Alex3886]

Hey man, what's up with the site.
I press the link, another window opens and I get the message:
Diese Präsenz ist leider nicht verfügbar.

What's up with that.
Has anyone had the chance to download that site's content.
Please, if somebody has downloaded those file, can you please post them on filefront or something.
I want to download them as well.
Please.

[Murr44]

That site went down quite awhile ago. It's a shame because a lot of really good, hard to find, mods went with it too...:cry:

[danlisa]

Meh!

The maps were nothing special.

Make your own.

Use Zoomify - http://www.zoomify.com/ Just add your own maps/images/etc.....

If you were paying attention, I put a link to the Aces Grid maps in another thread, that's a good starting point.

That site went down quite awhile ago. It's a shame because a lot of really good, hard to find, mods went with it too...:cry:

True, Terrapin provided a good service for years but then....well, shall we say "He went of the deep end"....(delicately put).

[Chisum]

"Diese Präsenz ist leider nicht verfügbar."...

:-?

[GoldenRivet]

"Diese Präsenz ist leider nicht verfügbar."...

:-?

same here

[danlisa]

"Diese Präsenz ist leider nicht verfügbar."...

:-?
same here
..and this surprises you?

Terrapin pulled the site shortly after the PRE-release of GWX 2.0, siting bandwidth costs.:hmm: Seems too many people were 'trying' to DL GWX 2.0 early.

UBRS now swims with the fishes.

[GoldenRivet]

damnit Alex :lol:

THIS IS WHY WE DONT RESURRECT LONG DEAD THREADS

:nope:

thanks danlisa, next time ill pay more attention to the fact that a post was from 2 years ago.

i cant type what im sying right now :stare:

PEOPLE: DONT GO BACK TWO YEARS AND BRING BACK DEAD THREADS

[Jimbuna]

damnit Alex :lol:

THIS IS WHY WE DONT RESURRECT LONG DEAD THREADS

:nope:

thanks danlisa, next time ill pay more attention to the fact that a post was from 2 years ago.

i cant type what im sying right now :stare:

PEOPLE: DONT GO BACK TWO YEARS AND BRING BACK DEAD THREADS

LMAO :lol:

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[GoldenRivet]

:lol::lol: