EXAMPLES TOC
1. HOW TO GET STARTED, THE VERY FIRST TRY
2 . IMPORT MAPSEND ROUTES AND TRAILS
3. IMPORT ESRI SHAPE FILES (APPALACHIAN TRAIL)
4. IMPORT OZI EXPLORER ROUTES (CREATE OBJECTS FROM PHOTO IMAGE)
5. IMPORT GARMIN MAPS (MEXICO CITY MAP, SIMPLE EXAMPLE)
6. IMPORT GARMIN MAPS (SAINT_PETERSBURG MAP, MORE COMPLEX EXAMPLE)
4. Import OZI Explorer routes (Create objects from photo image)
OZI Explorer is a popular program to work with many different types of GPS receivers and raster maps (the pictures (*.bmp. *.tif, *.gif etc) in contrast to vector data in Magellan and Garmin maps). Many other similar programs are available for similar purposes. The OZI route format was chosen because of popularity of the program, most of the converters support this format.
Here is a basic description how to draw map of trails and lifts at Killington Ski resort (VT, USA).
1. The aerial image of Killington ski resort was downloaded with USAphotoMaps program; the image was converted to WGS84
Lat/Long. For details please see http://www.msh-tools.com/general.htmll
2. The image was imported to the OZI Explorer and calibrated.
3. The routes (trail and lifts) were drawn with the mouse over all trails and lifts. 5 files with the trail and 2 files with the lifts were created (because the OZI explorer has a limit on number of routes and number of waypoints)
4. The corresponding trail and lift files were imported to AddMagMap; for trails Name conversion was set to display names with lower case (OZI routes are only in CAP); for lifts no name conversion was selected. Trails were imported to the “Trails” layer (will be shown in thin black dash lines (this is a setting of Topo 3d US for the “Trails” layer). Drawing type was selected to be “line type 5” (dashed line). Lifts were imported to “Highways” layer (to be shown by thick red solid line in the receiver) with the drawing type “line type 48” (Note: this line type does not exist in any map of the Topo 3d US and was selected with “any drawing type” dialog; this line type shows red thick line with the labels in red squares).
5. Note the labels: as described in the manual, specific MapSends have special rules for labels with digits. In this example, Topo 3d US has a rule to display label with digits as just a digit; the following figure shows this in more details, the lift has a label “SNOWDON-4” but only “4” is displayed in the red square.
6. When exported to the receiver the labels will be shown in full if name before digits has more than 3 characters (e.g. SNOWDON-4 will be displayed as SNOWDON-4); if there are 3 or less characters, the label will be displayed in red square (e.g. K1-8 will be displayed as K1-8 in red square). Please see the manual for more description. Please note also that different MapSend and receivers have different rules for the display of the labels.
Click menu item “Restore” - “original” to return to the original MapSend installation.
