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MANUAL TOC

1. MAPSEND STRUCTURE

2.ADDMAGMAP PROGRAM

2.1.OVERVIEW

2.2. RESTORE
2.2.1 RESTORE POINTS
2.2.2 STEP BACK

2.3 MAPS

2.4 DATA
2.4.1 LABELS
2.4.2 ICONS
2.4.3. LINES
2.4.4. AREAS
2.4.5. POINTS

2.5 JOBS

2.6 TOOLS
2.6.1. RUN AND CLOSE MAPSEND
2.6.2 POLISH TEXT TO ESRI SHAPE FILE CONVERTER

2.7 IMPORT GARMIN MAPS

2.8 KNOWN PROBLEMS
2.8.1 DIRECT ROUTE
2.8.2 S&D AUSTRALIA

2.9 TROUBLESHOOTING

2.10 INSTALL AND UNINSTALL

2.3 Maps

All custom objects must be imported in one of the custom maps. The map definition includes coordinates of map rectangle and the map name. Maps are flexible; they may or may not overlap with the existing MapSend maps or with each other. Maps can be considered as a logical subdivision of custom data. For example you can create one map for all US trails, or create several maps for different areas. Map can be anywhere on the globe, e.g. if you have MapSend for US nothing wrong is to create maps for Australia, Africa, Europe etc. Custom maps will be included to the search screen of the MapSend application. In the example at the right there are custom maps (below blue line) added to MapSend Topo 3d US. The objects in these maps are searchable exactly the same way as for other MapSend maps. In the example some object names from the Group “Roads” of Mexico map are shown. For custom maps Point of Interest, Cities, Airports will be blank, because these groups are a part of the background map but not the detail maps.

When button is pressed (“Create new map”) the dialog shown at right appears. You must define Top-Left and Bottom-Right corners of the map rectangle and the map name (Negative X for Western hemisphere, negative Y for Southern hemisphere).

Please take into account the following:

a) Accuracy of the map objects defined with -180-+180, -90-+90 (all the globe) is about 15 meters at the equator (for X axis, Y is better), smaller maps give proportional enhancement of the accuracy, for example map covering the whole US (-120 - -66) will have ~5 meter accuracy in X direction (Y is better), further reducing the size will produce proportionally better accuracy.

b) Some Mapsends are sensitive to the density of objects, so area of map with very high density of objects (for example Mexico city, which has more than 50000 streets in relatively small area) must be small to have less density. When MapSend crashes at high zoom it is most probably indication of this problem. Simply reduce area of the map for maps with high density of objects. For example, Mexico map with the width and height of 4 degree is OK.

c) Map names must not contain “_” or spaces. You will see warning message if so.

Custom objects can be imported at any time to any of the existing custom maps (or to newly created map). Not necessary to build the whole map in one step. Simply add layer by layer or add more data to existing layers. To have an idea what is the rectangle of the map place the mouse cursor over the drop-down list with the map names. Example at left shows existing “Mexico” maps with the coordinates -102 - -98 (Longitude (or X)); 18 – 22 (Latitude (or Y)). This way you can easily check if your data fit the range of the map to import.