MANUAL TOC
2.2. RESTORE
2.2.1 RESTORE POINTS
2.2.2 STEP BACK
2.4 DATA
2.4.1 LABELS
2.4.2 ICONS
2.4.3. LINES
2.4.4. AREAS
2.4.5. POINTS
2.6 TOOLS
2.6.1. RUN AND CLOSE MAPSEND
2.6.2 POLISH TEXT TO ESRI SHAPE FILE CONVERTER
2.8 KNOWN PROBLEMS
2.8.1 DIRECT ROUTE
2.8.2 S&D AUSTRALIA
2.5 Jobs
Job is a set of data imported to the AddMagMap with all the settings applied to the moment (including Map definition). Save job can be useful when several data files are imported to the AddMagMap and their properties are set to some values. Jobs save time when some properties should be changed but all the other properties are the same as before. For example you are creating some complex map with many setting for each of the objects, Before “Create map” save the job. If after creation of the map you see that some properties should be changed, perform step back operation to restore the previous state; open the saved job, change one or several properties and try again. |
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2.6.1. Launch and close MapSend
button to run the selected mapsend and press
button to close the MapSend before you start processing the map with AddMagMap.
2.6.2 Polish text to ESRI shape file converter
AddMagMap program has a tool to convert polish text format (Garmin map source) to ESRI shape files, the *.shp files can be then imported to MapSend. Conveter can be called any time from the “Tools” menu: Tools-Garmin source (polish text) converter. Browse to the polish text file (*.mp or *.txt) (upper button), select prefix name with the second button (or just click “=”) to use the same name (in this case the original file will NOT BE OWERRITEN; just file name will be used as a prefix). Select what object type you would like to export (line, area or point) and select Name conversion (if needed, take into account that normally all labels in Garmin source are in capitals). Push “Convert”. As a result you will get files in ESRI shape format. By default files with polylines (lines) object will have _L suffix, (polygons) area files will have _A suffix and point files _P suffix. Please next chapter for more information on importing the Garmin maps.
Another useful stuff about polish_text_to_shp converter is that you can define custom objects using any text editor; especially this is useful for areas with “islands” (multiple block areas). Lines are defined under [POLYLINE] block, areas under [POLYGON] block and [POI] for points. Then there must be Type= which follows by some word, Label= which define your object name and Data0=(Y,X),(Y,X)…. with coordinates of the object, at the very end of the object there is [END]. For areas several blocks can be defined, that results in drawing of “islands”. After conversion to the shape files the data can be imported to MagSend with AddMagMap program. Below are some examples.
[POLYGON]
Type=sometype
Label=Area1
Data0=(-0.02000,26.20500),(-0.01412,26.20023),(-0.01049,26.18773)
Data0=(-0.05000,26.19200),(-0.04706,26.19105),(-0.04524,26.18855),(-0.04524,26.18545)
[END][POLYLINE]
Type=type
Label=Line1
Data0=(-0.02000,26.20500),(-0.01412,26.20023),(-0.01049,26.18773)
[END]
