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Manual Georeferencing issue

I was struggling to get manual georeferencing to work because I simply could not find a way to get GCPs loaded without error. Turns out that Edge on MacOS mangles the GCPs while loading them. Edge on Windows loads them just fine. Edge on Windows running as a virtual machine on Parallels Desktop on MacOS works just fine as well. I haven't tried Safari on MacOS. 

James Hosmer

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Please email the CSV file to us so we can take a look. It is more likely an issue with the file than it is with the browser. 

Also, who uses Edge on MacOS?!?

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Hah! This old coot has been in the business since Jobs and Woz were still working out of Steve's garage. My Macbook Pro M3 runs the latest public beta of MacOS Sequoia 15.2, Parallels Desktop and Windows 11-ARM insider release. I run Edge (Chrome in drag) and Safari on both platforms to test consistency of behavior. I also have an HP Pavillion x360 Convertible with Windows 11 Pro insider release. Based on my experience thus far, I'll only use Maps Made Easy on Windows, regardless of hardware. Mapping is not a "for fun" exercise. We really are trying to understand better the effectiveness of our conservation efforts on our various fields. Everything just works more smoothly on Windows and I believe that Maps Made Easy is going to become very important to us. 

My GCPs are working correctly with manual re-referencing. I'm just trying to understand why I can't insert the GCPs during the initial DJI process so that I don't need the extra post-processing step. We're going to be doing the same maps in the same location on a periodic basis and using one GCP file for each of those locations so that the vagaries of DJI GPS tags are accounted for and corrected. Since we're going to leverage your hosting (please stay in business), as long as your base map and our periodic mapping layers all align on the locations page, we're good to go. I believe that other Wildlife organizations in the UK will be interested in what we're doing. Drone mapping has just proven to be too expensive or complex for most of them. Your great product can make that much easier.

But just to be complete, I'll try the next re-referencing in Safari on MacOS to see if that works. If not, I'll email the GCP file for you to look at.

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The regular GPS tags get people close enough 99% of the time. For those that need more doing it as a second quick step makes it much easier for people to to understand the offsets and easily enter and adjust the GCPs. 

Zane 0 votes
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Thanks, I get it.

I'll leave you alone now. I have many more maps to make.

James Hosmer 0 votes
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