Templot Info

Maps and aerial images are often useful as a background guide to track planning. Templot can fetch tiled maps from the internet for you, and scale them to match your current model scale. The map is comprised of several square tiles, each of which becomes a separate picture shape in your list of background picture shapes. There are functions to combine such tiles into a single map, and to position and twist the maps to suit your track planning. This video shows you how to get an historic background map from the NLS web site, and align tracks over it: