AddMagMap examples: ESRI shape

1. Run AddMagMap, select the MagSend to where we are going to insert this data (e.g. US topo 3d from the previous example).

2. Define new, or select from the drop-down list custom map name (e.g. “US-trails” from the previous example).

3. From the menu “File”-“Import File”-“Line” (“ESRI shape files (*.shp)” file type) browse to the at_centerline.shp file.

4. At the AddMagMap grid you will see 1st raw with the file name, type, object properties etc. The 3rd column (“Object properties”) shows “Name=No” (compare to “Nothing to select” for simple type of data, this means we can tune the input parameters (see next)). Also the SHP type of data allows seeing the bounding box coordinates. Double click to the cell “at_centerline.shp” (1st column) to see.

5. Double click the cell (“Name=No”) in the 3rd column (“Object properties”). The SHP filter dialog will be shown:

Click “Object Name” drop-down list to see all fields available for this file. For example, filed “ID” contains some id number of the trail parts, “LENGTH” (“LENGTH_M”,”LENGTH_MI”) contains length of each leg, etc. Note: only first 20 unique names sorted alphabetically are shown by default (the default number of lines shown and sort properties can be changed from the dialog called by the click on the “green arrow” button at the left). For example in the SUPPLIER filed we see 3 different sources of data (“Appalachian trail conference”, “Green Mountain National Forest”, “White Mountain National Forest”), many parts can have the same names, but only unique are shown.

Most likely, you don’t want to have any label displayed (in this case just select “Nothing selected”; as an example you may select one of the fields in the “Object Name” to display labels from this field); we are going to have all the data imported (alternatively, for example, you can set filter(s) drop-down list(s) to one of the fields and check the desired value (for example (select SOURCE from the “Filter1” drop-down list and check “3D GPS data” to import only those parts that are marked as a “3D GPS data”).

To check how many objects are in the file with the selected filter settings click

button, the statistics dialog will be shown:

In this example there are 3222 labeled objects (LABEL is taken from the “LENGTH” field) with the SOURCE=3D GPS Data; there are 4549 objects total (parts of the trail) in the file.

Let us set “Object Name”,”Filter1” and “Filter 2” to “Nothing selected” to import all objects without any labels. If we do so we will see the same “Name=No” indicating that there will be no labels shown and there are no filters applied.

6. Select “Trails” layer and “line type 5” the same way we did in the previous example at steps 5) and 6). Click “Create Map”. In several second the job will be done. Run MapSend (

). We will see the same custom map “US-trails” in the search window (since we did not created new map, but used the map created in the previous example) and the same “my_trail” object name in the search output of the group “Roads” (from previous example, because we imported Appalachian trail with the settings to show no labels).

If we browse and zoom to the “my_trail” (previous example) we see now 2 objects “my_trail” and part of the Appalachian trail that is in this area (Hurriman State park, NY)

Click menu “Restore” - “original” to return to the original MapSend installation, this will erase all custom maps created in the examples (unless you want to keep them).