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BIG, When you select the point, move the cursor just a tiny bit and click again. Then right-click and select "End". You'll now have a tiny line. But be careful! Make sure you draw this tiny line in the area where your contours are going to be. If you draw it outside this area by mistake (like I did on a couple of maps) it'll be deleted when you get to the "Trim" part after you dump in your hydrography. You follow? I just noticed that you can select the down arrow by the "wand" and select "point" to create a point instead of a line. More better me thinks.

Also, I've already downloaded 9 TIF files from the USGS Seamless Data Distribution site totalling 300 mb in space. I specified at the time of download the Lat and Lon limits of the requested TIF. I've since changed my mind as to the configuration of my map panels. Is there a way for me to combine 3 or 4 of these TIF files so I can "recut" my map panels? Also, is there a way for me to combine the data from all of the hydrography data into 1 big map (SHX?) and then use this when adding it to my final maps?

It seems that the contours, Major, Intermediate, and Minor, are set to show up at certain predetermined levels, right? If so, what are they and is there a way to change the levels thay show up on? See, the maps I've made so far have turned out pretty good, thanks to the great advice here. I've used 10, 50 and 250 foot contours. But the 250' contours are pretty worthless and I'd like the 10' contours to show up a bit later if possible. They show up at 800 ft. What I'd like to do is this: 10 foot contours that show up at 500 ft. 20 foot contours that show up at .2 mi. 100 foot contours that show up at .5 mi. Is there a straight forward way of accomplishing this?

BIG, When you select the point, move the cursor just a tiny bit and click again. Then right-click and select "End". You'll now have a tiny line. But be careful! Make sure you draw this tiny line in the area where your contours are going to be. If you draw it outside this area by mistake (like I did on a couple of maps) it'll be deleted when you get to the "Trim" part after you dump in your hydrography. You follow?

Cool. Thanx for the help.

Save a rayos.

Way to go!

Anyone?

Way to go! When I grow up, I want to be just like Brian.

60CS????

I think the problem was there due to my not having the level at the bottom of the list selected when I inserted more levels. It just that when I'm zoomed out looking at the map set in Mapsource, I see nothing but the rectangles representing the map panels. I'd like something to get an idea of what map panels represent what area. What do you think about this?: Maybe placing this other map info on a higher level that's set to something like 15mi, which level 4 at 18 bits is. No one views their GPSr at that level anyway so it wouldn't matter if it showed up there.

Double post.

I just tried and it's working for me. How long have you been trying? The "js" makes me think it's a Javascript error of some kind. Is your javascript enabled?

I just noticed these values are different than the ones posted on the web page. What difference will I see? Well, I'm using 10', 50' and 250' for my contour intervals. With the above level settings, they are just a little too dense for my taste. If the lowest you go is 20' contours, these settings may be fine. I may try the website's level settings and compare. Or should I go with 10', 20' and 100' AND the website's level settings? Hmmm...

Thanx Klatch. Anyone... How can I get some basic bounderies to show up on my preview map file in Mapsource? Are state, county and town bounderies available in the stuff we've downloaded? If it can be included in the preview map, can it somehow NOT be visible in the maps uploaded in to the GPSr?

OK, I'm almost there. A couple of questions though: What exactly determines the name of the "Product" in the pulldown list in Mapsource"? i.e. Metroguide, US Topo, etc. What exactly determines the name of the maps in the map list? Is it something in the registry, the "test_pv.txt" file, the IMG or TDB files? I'd like to nail this down so when I distribute these maps, they have a professional look. Also, When doing the following: 4. click on the levels tab and hit the insert before tab do this until you have level0= through level5= 5. Change the settings to look like this Level0=24 bits mapsource zoom=under1.2km Level1=23 bits mapsource zoom=1.2-3km Level2=22 bits mapsource zoom=3-8km Level3=20 bits mapsource zoom=8-12km Level4=19 bits mapsource zoom=12-30km Level5=18 bits mapsource zoom=50-120km 6. Click on the cGPSMapper Tab and check the Map is transparent box 7. Click apply 8. Next click on view, then levels and select level 4. This will be a white page 9. Click on the wand tab(create object) and select point, Click on your map and create a settlement(less 100) and click ok Make sure you have the level at the bottom of the list selected when you click the "Insert Before" tab. I must have had a different one selected and ended up with my major contours showing up on level 4. I ignored it the first time around but then figured it out and tried the way I describe and it didn't repeat. And... On the following instruction: C. Click on file, import and select ESRIshape(*.shp) D. Go to your download water ways folder and open the subfolder hydrography and click on NHDFlowline 1. Select type of objects, click on from list tab and select 0X0001River ,hit next I didn't see 0X0001River, but a 0X001f-River. Is this correct? Isn't this fun?

I want to post a couple of screen shots in a forum topic. Is there a way for me to upload a few pics to my gallery and then refer to them in the forum topic?

Yeah, that's all. The maps should be much better looking than Garmin's.

I wish I'd known that before I did it. OK, I'm able to see the topo map I've created on my GPSr. But it looks like the preview map, not the pretty detailed one. How does the program know to upload the main IMG and not the preview IMG? Where is the preview IMG supposed to be and where is the big IMG supposed to be? I'm also seeing the contours, all of them, from 3 miles on in. It doesn't seem to be getting more detailed as I zoom in and I also don't see the 10 ft. contours. I set up the map to be 10,50,250 contours. It's also not transparent. Should I go back to the MP file and work forward from there? Thanx for your patience! I plan on doing all of the maps for Northern NJ and sharing them with all of my brothers and sisters in the NNJC.

Seems you've done it all. I'd call Garmin tech support. They are supposed to be very attentive.

I am not quit sure what you mean. I think you are there just don't realize it yet. So when you open up mapsource and the tab that lets you switch between lets say garmin topos and garmin navigator is your maps there. Can you select your newly created map? If so then go to the map selecting tool and click in that area on the map and that should add your map to the map tab. Then you can load it with others to the gps. Also if you want to see your map in mapsource change your detail setting to high or highest and zoom in as far as you can and you will see it. Let me know if this works. Also you can add the second img to the mapset too. Move the all the imgs you want to, to the custom folder and then add the img name to the test_pv file. Then all you have to do is rerun the test_pv. Once you do the registry you never have to do it again. OK, I got to upload it from Mapsource. But, 2 things. 1. I think it erased the maps I already had loaded. 2. I'm not seeing the uploaded map on my 60CS either. Any ideas? I hope I can locate my CDs!

I downloaded 300 megs of maps this morning with Firefox. Anywho... I've followed these instructions and everything seems to have worked fine except for when I open Mapsource. All I see is the preview map when I "Switch to Product" 10000001, which is the name I gave the map. But under the MAPS tab, there is nothing listed. Where could I have screwed up? Also, I now have 2 10000001.img files, a 36kb file under "C:\Program Files\Garmin\Custom" and a 584kb one originally created by gpsmapedit, in another folder.

I hate double posts.

I'm thinking of getting this one.