Queensland raster map for TransDEM?

[MrPineapple]

Hey guys,

I'm planning on building the entire North Coast Line in Quuensland. I've basically built the coastline in TransDEM, however i've now hit a brick wall. I can't find a good georeferenced, accurate map of Queensland that I can use to track the railway lines with. If anyone could help me, it would be splendid.

Thanks,
Jack

 

[patchy]

hi jack
i use use the google earth method in transdem
depending on how close you can zoom in it's works quite well

cheers,
patchy

 

[Vern]

Isn't there a built in WMS facility for Australia in Transdem? Failing that you can always use the tile server feature to overlay a Google or Yahoo map. Not so good or detailed but I know from currently working on Cairns to Kuranda and maybe beyond in RailFail that the Google Earth (ergo Google Map) coverage of QA is pretty good.

 

[MrPineapple]

Hey patchy,

Everytime I try to use the Google Maps thing it says that i'm crossing the equator and it refuses to do anything else. Care to help?

Cheers,
Jack

 

[MrPineapple]

Hey never mind, guys, I figured it out all by myself. HYUUUUUK!

 

[patchy]

Hey never mind, guys, I figured it out all by myself. HYUUUUUK!

good onya
took me a little while to get my head around it,once you get it going its easy

cheers,
patchy

 

[MrPineapple]

Yeah, it seems i've run into two new walls:

One, I can't seem to make the size of the routes smaller. Changing the UTM co-ordinates just crops it, it doesn't make it smaller, which is annoying.

Two, I get an error when I try to create the route from Nambour-Rockhampton (The error is: "Errors writing file "[Map Files Export]"."), although I know of the reason for that (it's because there are too many maps on it)

I'm rather frustrated with the program right now.

Jack