April Tag Mat Creator code written for CMSC828T
- Install Fireshot Google Chrome plugin (recommended) or Fireshot Firefox plugin (you need this to download high res background images).
- Go to Chengfolio.
- Select Map type to
Satellite Map
. - Zoom to level of detail desired (Depends on how high you want to fly).
- Select the necessary resolution - 5000x5000 recommended on a 64GB RAM PC. Try the highest resolution for which you don't fail to capture.
- Click capture entire page on Fireshot plugin and save as
pdf
.
Reference: How to export High quality Google Map Images
- Download 36h11 Tag family (recommended) from UMich EECS repository
- Extract the files from the downloaded
tar
.
- Open Wrapper.m
For the first time running the code:
- Change
%InstallDeps;
toInstallDeps
- Change
%PS2PDF;
toPS2PDF;
- Change
ExtractPNGsFlag = 0;
toExtractPNGsFlag = 1;
- Set
TagSize
,SpaceBetweenTags
andGridSize
to desired values (Note all sizes are in m)