Gathering coordinates for incredibly precise exports?
Hi all,
many years ago, long before I became a user of CC3, I made a city map using Paint.net. This is a project I am still working on and off on, but because of the incredibly large dimensions that I work with (20k by 20k), the map file makes Paint.net run painfully, brutally slow, I've been toying with the thought of redoing the map in CC3+.
The trouble is, the map is at a fairly close zoom level, and without being able to export out of CC3+ at 20k by 20k resolution (which the program can't do), any streets, roads, labels would be too small to read unless I made their size incredibly large and lost some smaller, finer-grained detail.
The idea that I had, therefore, was to, whenever I feel like doing an export, export sections of the map using the rectangular section export tool, and then stitch them together at 20k by 20k in Paint.net. However, to do this, I need to be able to grab incredibly precise coordinates for my exports, not merely mousing over a spot on the map, because there can't be any overlap in between the sections, and at the same time there can't be anything missing. Does anyone know what the best practice would be to do this?
Thanks!
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Just type the numbers ate the command line instead of clicking with the mouse.
For example, if your map is 200 by 200 map units and you wish to export in 4 parts, simply do four rectangular section exports, and when CC3+ asks for the corner, type in 0,0 and 100,100 for the first 0ne, 0,100 and 100,200 for the second one and so on.
If you prefer to use the mouse, you can also set up an appropriately sized snap grid where each snap division is the size of the section to export. You can set up snap grids by right clicking the Snap button in the lower right.
Or, you can use my tile export macro from Annual issue 129.
That makes sense, I wasn't entirely clear as to how to read the coordinates bar before but now that I know that it's map units, that makes everything a lot clearer. Thank you!