# This is a comment line, your reader should simply ignore it (it begins with a '#') # If you edit that file, the comments may disappear or be replaced by your own ones # Each marking tag are placed at the very beginning of a line and end by a column (:) then you get the value that you have to read until the next marking tag # There is two parts that describe each map. The first part start from the 'Map:' tag and describe the Map in general # The second part start with the 'Points' tag and list the identifiable features of the map # White space at the beginning or end of a tag or a value are not significant and could be erased # Note that you don't need to use everything available information from that # Only the 'Description' field could stretch over more than one line # Beginning of the description of a map Map: # Name : the displayed name of the area Name: Canberra centre # Image field give the pathname to the map picture (it could be a local, absolute or relative pathname, and it should use Unix convention) Image:canberra.jpg # A description of the area Description: Canberra is the capital of Australia. Even So, you'll find hardly no direction sign to it in main other state capitals and if you explain to almost any Australian that you plan to leave Paris to settle down in Canberra, (s)he will look at you with a definitive sad face and gently ask : "Why ?"; # Real dimension of the map in meter (width then height) Dimension: 5864.5 8225.8 # coordinate of the left top of the map on the Earth. format : [lat degree] [lat min] [lat sec] [N or S] [long degree] [long min] [long sec] [E or W] Origin: 35 17 20 S 149 06 36 E # Beginning of the second part Points: # Beginning of the description od a landmark Point: # pixel coordinates : the origin is the top left of the picture, positive axis towards the right and the bottom. Coordinate:30.5;228.5 # Then we get a short name for the top, and eventually a description for that point Name:Telecom Tower Description:Black Mountain is West of the Civic, and if 812m isn't high enough for you, you can also climb the further 195m to the top of the Telstra Tower. # Beginning of the part that describe the set of Pictures associated to a given Point Images: # Path in Unix notation ('/' is the separator. '..' to get up a level), relative the map description file (this file). Image:telecomTower1.jpg Image:telecomTower2.jpg Point: Coordinate:324;313 Name:City Hill Description: There are some benches to have rest on the top of the hill ... if you are ready to have a rest in the centre of a roundabout Point: Coordinate:283;619 Name:Parliament House Flag Description: On the top of Capital Hill. The idea behind the parliament house construction is that any Australian citizen should be able to walk above its government symbolically being more important that any of its representatives. It is just a pity that any Australian Citizen could not simply get a salary higher or equal to MP's one ... Images: Image:parliament.jpg Point: Coordinate:539;492 Name:Australian American War Memorial Description: When Autralian follow the US, they just get into trouble