ibycus

Did you find his people?

try http://www.ibycus.com/ibycustopo/IbycusTopo21.tgz

Can you tell us how you're defining centre? (and why you're spelling centre the american way in a canadian forum ) Are we talking centre of mass, or centroid, or (max lat+min lat)/2, (max lon+min lon)/2. Dale and does it have to be a physical cache?

Can you tell us how you're defining centre? (and why you're spelling centre the american way in a canadian forum ) Are we talking centre of mass, or centroid, or (max lat+min lat)/2, (max lon+min lon)/2. Dale

Street names are only available in the provinces/territories where the data has been released by the government. (Alberta, BC, Nova Scotia, Yukon), and will be added for the rest of the country as the data becomes available (technically the Ontario data is available, but there is a $100 access fee for the data, and a little birdy told me that it might be released publically soon anyways). Dale

There is no specific per province download. The whole country is downloaded in one big file (3GB). You can download from my website at http://www.ibycus.com/ibycustopo/, or you can follow the instructions in the last couple of posts to use BitTorrent to download the file (probably more reliable on a shakey connection). Dale

Good point! Yep, you need a Bit Torrent client to make use of a torrent file. One possible client can be found at http://www.utorrent.com . Oh, and don't worry about contributing bandwidth, the main thing I'm hoping to get out of these is a more reliable download. I've set it up so that the website is a "Web seed" for the file, so there should never be problems with inaccessible file portions, and it should be at least as fast as downloading from the website. The extra bandwidth is just gravy.

Just uploaded the torrent for the ZIP file version (rather than the ISO version) http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4492135/I...135.TPB.torrent

Glad it seems to be working. I've set it up so that it should look to the website if any parts are missing, so hopefully the torrent will be as fast, or faster than a straight website download (and it should be more reliable too). Dale

Had a little bit of free time today, so I thought I'd take a shot at setting up a Bit Torrent for the file. Can someone let me know if this at least starts to download? http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4490137/I...137.TPB.torrent

Mac Version now available from http://www.ibycus.com/ibycustopo/IbycusTopo21.tgz

I've almost finished uploading the Mac version to the website. Turns out my upload bandwidth to the server is just really crummy, and it has very little to do with my home computer connection (uploading at the university was just as slow). Dale

That's pretty much exactly the way I see it. For my own part, (if I were the friend), I'd find the cache with you, sign the log, and then go back and find the other caches when I could. As long as you're honest and upfront about all of the circumstances surrounding the find, as a cache owner, I wouldn't have a problem with a find log from the friend. Dale

One other option, if you keep having trouble downloading, I could provide an unzipped http directory, and a file list for you to download the files one at a time (assuming you are somewhat tech savvy). Dale Just made some updates to the layout of the website. MapUpdate is now officially useless (I scrapped reorganized the /download/ directory). I added a number of 'version' directories which are laid out the same as they should be on the hard drive http://www.ibycus.com/ibycustopo/2.1 is the latest version. I also have a directory for 1.22, 1.31, 1.5 and 2.0. ibycustopo/download is now a symbolic link to the latest version. Hope this makes things easier for some.

How many bytes? It should be 3,257,929,318 bytes. Can you calculate an MD5? No I can't; but I used a web app to find it. Don't know if it's good or not. The MD5 I got is: 1264e2c381e68cd27cd5fe87d706ab41. I checked the file size through 'properites' and it reads : 3,257,867,713 bytes Does that help? Hmmm, that MD5 and size doesn't match either of the files I have (close, but not quite), so it seems like the file is in fact corrupted somehow in the download process.

How many bytes? It should be 3,257,929,318 bytes. Can you calculate an MD5?

Can you tell me the (exact) size of the file? I'm guessing it didn't download properly. What are you using to download? Internet explorer will often fail on large downloads, so I don't recommend it for things like this (I use it for everything else though...). Da;e

Yeah, 2.1 is much better (these keys look like 1.22 keys). Not sure why they wouldn't work... I imagine its something silly though. (Although you will have problems if you upgrade to 6.14 when using the IMG files from pre 2.0). The installer for 2.1 gives you the option for where to store the files. Dale

They are different. In general 2.1 is better than 2.0. The one doesn't wipe the other out because I wanted to 'start fresh' with this version to make sure there were no interactions with previous versions (which I'd been seeing). If you download "MapsetToolkit" from cypherman's website, you can remove the references in Mapsource to the old version. You can then safely delete the program folder. Dale

Which part are you refering to? I've updated the links to point to the new files (the coverage map is *way* out of date though... just noticed that...) Dale

I have not heard of anything. I'll e-mail him and see what he's working on... Basically what a DEM (digital elevation model) is, is a 'pixelated' representation of the terrain elevations (kind of like a bit map). This means that a person (or a program) can easily ask the question "What is the elevation at point x,y"? As opposed to a contour map, where the elevation information is stored as a series of lines of constant elevation. These lines can be in any order, in any dimension (x, y and z), which can make it very difficult (although not impossible) for a program to figure out the elevation at a given point, but it does make it easier to render some information. Dale

Any idea if Stan is trying to incorporate DEM data in to cgpsmapper? If he does, I can certainly include it in the Ibycus Topo. Dale

If it follows the pattern of previous MetroGuide products, its not locked to a particular GPS. Also it will have more detail in rural areas as well as more details in the rivers/lakes/streams etc. Dale

Have you noticed all the actual screenshots (at least that I can see) clearly state Version 4? I wonder if its really in the wild, or if they are just pretending they have it?

You'd probably fit in better in the Canadian thread, but no worries. As of right now, the latest version of the maps is only available on the PC. This will change as soon as I (or some other interested party) gets around to converting the maps to a Mac Format. This isn't hard to do, but my upload bandwidth is really crummy, so it would take me a lot of time. That being said, at the moment, it is possible to run the maps on Parallels. Other than that, I have little to no experience with Macs (ok, not entirely true, I used to be a wiz at System 6). There is some stuff a couple of pages back in this thread re. loading the maps up on a Mac. Hopefully that might be helpful. Dale