Gooflicker Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I have the "Backroad GPS Maps for Ontario" 2 MB SD Card, and I have a Garmin Montana 650 GPS, when I install the "Backroad GPS Maps SD card" into the GPS I can barely see the ATV/Hiking trails etc. (white trail on a white background, the name of the trail is shown), not my "Tracks" but the trails that came with the data card from Backroad GPS Maps) yet when I open up "Garmin Base Camp" software and view the map in there, ATV/Hiking trails stand out. I have played around with changing the "Track" colours and it changes my "Track" colours no problem but it dosent change the colour of the "Trails" that are pre-installed on the "Backroad GPS Maps" SD card. Has anybody else experienced this? Is there a way of changing the colours of the trails so I can see them? Quote Link to comment
snowfleurys Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 You should bring that to the attention of the creator of that mapset. Quote Link to comment
Forkeye Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I have BC backroads and a Garmin 76csx...you can only change track colors.Snowmobile trails are a blue and white dashed ,outlined in black ,ATV trails are blue and green outlined in black,they are both easily viewable on white terrain,trails are a yellow and white dashed line outlined in black.I am using ver.1 BC,I have ver.2,but not on my gps,so I would have to check to see if it is different.Is there more than one ver. of Ontario.I like my ver 1 better. Quote Link to comment
Gooflicker Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 I have brought this to the attention of Backroad Gps Maps and this is their response: Hello Travis, Thank you for purchasing our Backroad GPS Maps. In general you should see the same information on your GPS unit as you do on the computer version in BaseCamp. Unfortunately you are not able to change the colour of line styles or any other feature that comes with our GPS Maps. In some cases the GPS unit might show different details and information due to the settings of the GPS. Another rather possible reason could be that the colour match table is corrupted. This table will assign the correct colour to individual features. A way to rectify the issue is to transfer the maps from BaseCamp to your SD card. Please see the attached document for further instruction on transfering maps to your SD card. Also, it would be interesting for us to see how the GPS unit is showing the line feature and the background. If you could make a screen shot from your GPS unit and email those images to us it would be a great help to assess the problem. To capture a screen shot from your GPS Unit go to "Setup" -> "Display" -> "Screen Capture". Then you will be able to take screen shots which will be saved in a folder within the internal memory of your GPS unit. To access the folder connect your GPS unit via USB cable to your computer, in File Explorer go to your GPS unit -> Garmin -> scrn -> the screen shot files should be listed there. I hope this helps. Please feel free to contact us if you have any further question. Of course we will try to solve the issue with the lines style for you. Regards, --------- Oliver Herz Cartographer GPS Maps Tech Support Toll Free: 1-877-520-5670 P: 604-521-6277 F: 604-521-6260 Quote Link to comment
Gooflicker Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 Just a follow up, on how my issue was resolved. Hi Oliver It worked!........Thanks for your help! I can see the trails on my GPS clear as day! Thanks again, Travis On 07/03/2012 4:00 PM, Backroad GPS Support wrote: > Hello Travis, > > I suggest to format the SD card and basically start with a clean storage device. Please follow the instructions on how to do this. > > 1) Insert your SD card into a SD card reader on your computer. Format the SD card. > 2) Create a folder called GARMIN on the SD card. > 3) Copy the attached file "gmapsupp.unl" (file size 1 KB) into the GARMIN folder on your SD card. > 4) Log into your account on our website. Go to "Check My Registered Products" -> "Download Now Available Updates" -> "Download Now Backroad POI". Save that file on your computer. > 5) Create a folder called POI within the GARMIN folder on the SD card. > 6) Copy the downloaded file "BRMBC_v2_2.gpi" (file size 9,219 KB) into the POI folder on your SD card. > 7) Then follow the instructions how to transfer map data to your SD card. > > Alternatively to Step 7) you can also access "Download Now Update for SD-Card". Save that file ("gmapsupp.img" -> 827,456 KB) to your computer. Then copy it into the GARMIN folder on your SD card. > > I hope this will help. Please let us know if this solves your problem. > > Regards, Quote Link to comment
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