[CQ-Contest] Census Bureau State County Maps

[Jeff Clarke]

Mike,

Chuck helped me quite a bit for the GQP.  It's not real hard to do after 
getting used to it. In the CQX program there is a tool the create the 
KML files You go to QP Tools > QSO Party Admin Tools >Prepare Activity 
Website Files.

You need to prepare an data activity input file that looks something 
like this format.

KN4Y/m(SAT-CW)=Thomas,Brooks,Lowndes,Echols,Charlton,Brantley,Wayne,Long,Liberty,Tattnall,Appling,Bacon,Coffee,Atkinson,Berrien,Tift,Colquitt
KN4Y/m(SUN-CW)=Decatur,Miller,Early,Clay,Randolph,Quitman,Stewart,Webster,Marion,Talbot,Taylor,Schley,Sumter,Lee,Dougherty,Mitchell,Grady,Thomas
N4I/m(SAT-MIX)=Baldwin,Burke,Emanuel,Glascock,Hancock,Jefferson,Jenkins,Johnson,Montgomery,Toombs,Treutlen,Warren,Washington,Wheeler
N4I/m(SUN-MIX)=Appling,Bacon,BenHill,Bleckley,Coffee,Irwin,JeffDavis,Jones,Laurens,Pulaski,Telfair,Twiggs,Wilcox
K3LB(SAT-MIX)=Berrien
K3LB(SUN-MIX)=Berrien
KD4QMY(SAT-SSB)=Bibb
KD4QMY(SUN-SSB)=Bibb

You then press the Prepare Files button. It will create a bunch of KML 
files. This is the KML file Chuck is talking about using as an overlay 
in Google Maps. You have to sign on to your Google account and choose 
Maps and create a new map to be able to do this.

Here is the map I'm working on for my FQP route 
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1C07bn7r7eWKV3KMJ0hIIn2saHLtLukdZ&usp=sharing

Jeff

On 4/16/2019 12:27 PM, Charles Sanders wrote:
> Hi Mike -- Saw your comment to K8MR's note and thought I would follow up
> with this note of my own
>
> County overlay maps showing an outline of each county for each state are
> also available in KML format from this page
> <http://www.no5w.com/CQxCountyOverlays-DL.php> of my website.
>
> Once you have extracted the two files you can import the KML file into
> Google Maps where the overlay will appear along with a menu listing the
> counties. If desired, as you work a county click on the menu item of the
> county and choose a color to fill in. Regarding real-time interface to
> N1MM+ that is doable but is not yet available (at least not from me:>)).
> Currently the coloring process would be easy but would be manual.
>
> If you are going mobile and have APRS another use of the overlays is to use
> them in conjunction with APRS.fi to show your location in relation to the
> county boundaries.
>
> Both of the above are relatively straight forward but if you have questions
> about the details feel free to contact me.
>
> Also note that the data in these files is also used to produce the County
> Activity Maps <https://www.no5w.com/FQP_AnnouncedPlans.html> for FQP and
> several other parties.
>
> 73/Chuck/NO5W
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