Dear friends, I'd like to create a geographic canvas from a form or picturebox as Jon Masterson.

If Rod or Jon, can contact to me to tell my anything about this.

I have a reader of geometry class and I need to show in the canvas in real mercator (metric) coordinates, or Lat/Lon coordinates.

How can I do to show this?

Thanks for advanced.

Francisco J.
GIS Analyst and Developer.
gistdt05@hotmail.com

It depends on what your geometry class is and what the reader does. What kind of data does it load? Point and line data? Topography?

I'm not sure exactly what you need to do. If you need to draw points, lines, etc. that you loaded from the file, you can use the Graphics object's transformation methods to make this a little easier. Lat/Long will be easiest, although remember there will be some deformation over long distances.

If you look over the previous posts in this thread, it may help with the scaling.

Rod

Rod Stephens, Visual Basic MVP

Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...2628/vbhelper/

Thanks Rod,

I have to load Points, Lines and Polygons shapes, I have some files as Shapefile (standard for Geographic Information Systems - ESRI) and another files simmilar to CAD.

I thought that it would be more useful to load the data in metric coordinates (as Mecartor or another projection) because the units was more convertible to metric not angular (Lat/Lon).

If I have a file as the following (in ASCII, TXT or CSV format)

IDPoint, XCoordPoint, YCoordPoint
1, 450342.25, 7438278.10
2, 530724.27, 7349827.11
.
.
.
25, 127832.21, 7872827.45

These coordinates are in meters from the origin x (greendwich meridiam) and origin y (ecuator paralel)

If i want to load that file that would show all points in the canvas, how can I do to translate or scale the canvas conform I add new points and show in real coordinates if the canvas or picture, form, and so is shown in pixel units?

Thanks for a lot of.

Francisco J.
GIS Analyst and Developer
gistdt05@hotmail.com

You should probably use the Graphics object's transformation methods to define a scale so you can plot the points in their native coordinates. The object will automatically scale them appropriately.

If you really want to learn where the transformed points are, you can use the object's properties to get its transform matrix and apply it to the points. Or you could write your own transformation. But those seem like a lot of work.

Rod

Rod Stephens, Visual Basic MVP

Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...2628/vbhelper/

Many thanks Rod,

I will try it.

I have transformation methods to convert in UTM (projected coordinates) the Lat/Lon values of points, but i didn't know how can I do to translate/scale my canvas.

I will try it and comment my results here.

Thanks.

Francisco J.
GIS Analyst and Developer.
gistdt05@hotmail.com

Francisco J.
GIS Developer