Mars maps
Bill J Gray Sep 4, 2003
Hi Kevin,
Hmmm... a couple of things are going on here.
The old message on the Schiaparelli map (#3067) is right about
_that_ map being bitmap #2. It's the more recent ALPO/D. Avigliano
map which is bitmap #4. By renaming it from 'planew04.qwe' to
'planet04.qwe', you moved it from #4 to #1.
I'd briefly forgotten that before the current update, Guide only
supported three bitmaps. So it would ignore a 'planew' file.
That's why you had to do that renaming stunt; the current
update would spot the file and enable the "bitmap #4" option.
Thanks for pointing this out.
(The naming scheme for .qwe files is a little weird. I started out
with the possibility of a planet00.qwe for the sun, planet01.qwe
for Mercury, and so on. When I came up with alternate bitmaps,
I decided these would be planeu##, planev##, ... planez##.
The numbering continues past 9=Pluto to 10=the Moon, 11=Io,
12=Europa, and so on for every natural satellite in the solar
system. When four different maps exist for, say, Himalia,
Guide will be able to switch among them.)
-- Bill