User Maps -- a couple ideas

[dgood71]

As I'm a relatively new user of Topofusion Pro, I may simply not be aware of these features if they exist, so please enlighten me if that's the case...

I've been importing user maps for state parks and game lands near my home.  One thing that would be really nice is if there was a way to rotate the maps inside topofusion.  Some maps aren't created with North up, so they're really whacked when imported.  I have been putting them in photoshop to rotate them, but I don't always get the rotation exactly right, so they're still off a bit in TF.  If there was a way to rotate them as they're displayed, it would be a piece of cake to get them aligned properly.

Also, may maps have extra "white space" that really can't be removed.  Since the land areas are almost never a perfect rectangle, the image files have margins that really add nothing to the display and in fact get in the way.  If there were some color value we could use in the image files that would appear transparent in the TF display, that would really be beneficial.  It would allow us to hide the white space in maps. 

So, in short, a transparent user map color and the ability to arbitrarily rotate user maps are what I'm suggesting.

[ScottMorris]

Thanks for the comment.  You can in effect rotate a user map in any direction, you just need to use three calibration points rather than two.  If you point click the third point just about any kind of transformation including all angles of rotation are possible.  However, it might be nice to just have a rotate tool for a map, to ease the calibration process.

Regarding a white space... I like that idea.  With jpeg artifacts it won't work quite so well in practice, but it is worth a shot.  Thanks.