To centre the map on an object or location, enter:
* An object name.
* Latitude and longitude. This can be in decimal degrees (E.g: -23.666413, -46.573550) or degrees, minutes and seconds (E.g: 50°40'46.461"N 95°48'26.533"W or 33d51m54.5148sS 151d12m35.6400sE).
* An address (E.g: St Katharine's & Wapping, London EC3N 4AB)
<h3>2: Map Type</h3>
Allows you to select a map type. The available types will depend upon the Map provider
selected under Display Settings (7).
<h3>3: Maidenhead locator conversion</h3>
When checked, opens the Maidenhead locator converter dialog, which allows conversion between addresses, latitude and longitude and Maidenhead locators.
<h3>4: Display Beacon dialog</h3>
When clicked, opens the Beacon dialog. Initially, no beacons will be listed. To download the IARU Region 1 beacon list, click the download button in the top right.
The beacons will then be displayed in the table and on the map.
* The "Home" antenna location is placed according to My Position set under the Preferences > My Position menu. The position is only updated when the Map plugin is first opened.
* Single clicking on an object in the map will display a text bubble with additional information about the object.
* Right clicking on a object will open a context menu, which allows:
* To set an object as the target. The target object with have its azimuth and elevation displayed in the text bubble and sent to the Rotator Controller feature.
* Setting the center frequency to the first frequency found in the text bubble for the object.
* Changing the order in which the objects are drawn, which can be help to cycle through multiple objects that are at the same position.
<h2>Attribution</h2>
IARU Region 1 beacon list used with permission from: https://iaru-r1-c5-beacons.org/ To add or update a beacon, see: https://iaru-r1-c5-beacons.org/index.php/beacon-update/
Mapping and geolocation services are by Open Street Map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/ esri: https://www.esri.com/ and Mapbox: https://www.mapbox.com/
Full details of the API can be found in the Swagger documentation. Here is a quick example of how to centre the map on an object from the command line:
