I have given up on WEBGIS. It looked promising, but as reported here it is too unstable for general use. I appreaciate the feedback. If anyone can recommend...
I know that several people were claiming that transparent maps are not working (when creating with cgpsmapper) as they should, so finally I decided to check it...
... were ... guys ... then ... Stan, Thanks for following this up. I would like to use the transparent map feature. Could you please give us some guidelines on...
... were ... guys ... then ... Stan, Thanks for looking into this issue. I too would like to overlay a custom map on a Garmin Metroguide or City Navigator map....
Hi map authors I am going climbing in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range, Peru in June. I would like to make a basic contour map for my Garmin Legend of the ...
... On 04 May 2004 17:55 in map_authors@yahoogroups.com ... Thank you Gilles, This looks like DEM data - could be useful when I start playing with Ozi3D. Is...
Hi all, I'm making topo maps of New Zealand for Garmin recievers/mapsource. The default colours and linewidths in Mapsource, and on the recievers, mean that...
... I assume you know that you can use Garmin's online viewer to look at their map products, although it doesn't necessarily show things exactly as MapSource...
... You may want to try: ftp://ftpflag.wr.usgs.gov/dist/pigpen/globalgis/ There are two files that might interest you: csamerica_contours_1km.zip and ...
On 05 May 2004 05:55 in map_authors@yahoogroups.com ... Thanks Bob I downloaded csamerica_contours_1km.zip a few days ago (35MB). It has very rough contours of...
Hi Gary For my topo maps I use "minor contour line" for all contours and "unpaved road" for all singletracks, fire roads and doubletracks. Those 2 types of...
Silly question, sorry but here it goes. Send map will not overwrite my base map correct? I would think it only overwrites any custom maps on the unit....
On 06 May 2004 16:25 in map_authors@yahoogroups.com ... Correct, only custom maps will be overwritten. You have to send all the custom maps you want on the GPS...
Can MapSource be used to load a custom map (.img) into multiple GPS units? I am not doing this to load the standard Garmin MapSource maps to multiple units,...
... They could if they didn't use USB and instead used the old serial cable. I do this for loading tracks/waypoints via GPilotS from my Palm m130. But to...
There is an unlock feature which allows a password to be entered in GPSSendMap. How is a password put on the map in the first place to allow GPSSendMap to know...
... Hi Korey, Garmin Has locked some of thier map products and require a Unlock code that is only good for One GPS unit, by including this "password" in...
When using MapEdit, I can draw a polyline and state what color I wish the contour to be. However, when I am importing all my .shp files from another...
I am thinking this is a Newbie question but I can't seem to find the answer. I want to pull a map out of MapSource or at least trace a few roads from the map...
Jeramey, I am very happy to say Stan sent me an email saying to download the software again as the transparent map feature was working. I did, and it does. The...
Does anyone know if you can reduce the sizes of the square sections of Mapsource when picking areas to download? Sometimes I only want a small portion of a...
... I didn't have any luck finding a list on the 'net, but think there should be one somewhere. Ended up using FileMon from <http://www.sysinternals.com> to...
If you select the file, then save it as a .mps file, the filename is in the mps file. Only trouble is- it's in binary format. It might be relatively trivial to...
I am about to go on a two month research trip to the western mountains of Honduras (Celaque National Park to be exact) and I am looking to purchase a GPS unit...
I like to download Garmin GPSMAP76S screen shot on to PC. G7TOWIN (ver A.00.175) does not support GPSMAP76S, thought it captures a partial screen shot with 90...
On 10 May 2004 00:16 in map_authors@yahoogroups.com ... Or you could open the .tdb file with GPSMapedit - the properties of each map tile definition area has...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
