Ted Gould wrote:
Paul Hirose wrote:
I'm having trouble drawing a path depicting a vessel's movements. For example, from some starting point, go 123 miles on course 091°, thence 73 miles on course 346°, etc.
I realize you're asking a "How do I use Inkscape?" question, but I'm going to answer it another way. For drawing a map like that I'd probably recommend using GPS Visualizer. Probably the coolest SVG application that I've seen.
--Ted
Paul
It seems to me the best approach would be to set up a simple spreadsheet with columns such as:
Distance Angle X-coord Y-coord
and with proper attention to the formulae, you would quickly end up with a list of sets of coordinates which you would then plot. I don't see any aids in Inkscape to do this and attempting to draw the coords from the little numbers at the bottom of the GUI that run with the cursor position would be more hit than miss.
Inkscape would give a great map when complete - you could add features to it at will - but I think it needs a separate bit of number crunching first. There is a fantastic range of land and land-use clip art at:
http://ian.umces.edu/index.html?http&&&ian.umces.edu/conceptuald...
and they are all vector format! You must have a look at that site.
Please let us know whet you end up doing.
Regards
Adam