I'm sorry I've written so much, because what I was wanting to ask is really fairly simple. I'm not familiar with the language of Garmin mapping yet, and I think both applications were written by people for whom English isn't a first language, so I'm a little in the dark about what it is I need to know to create maps. In MapTK it is something about levels not being in descending order (though I think I have them in the order GPSMapEdit wants them, higher level numbers for smaller scales), while in cGPSmapper it is something about some region needing split, and it was compiling for 2 hours before it finally belched out an error and failed to create an IMG file. Either with cGPSmapper or MapTK, I get error messages. mp file in GPSMapEdit that seems to do the trick on the computer screen at least, however the problem comes when I try to compile it. I've been busily creating a map of Cumbria, my home county, from the data I mentioned above. mp files directly into cgpsmapper so that I don't have to get my hands dirty with the command-line interface.
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The free version of cGPSmapper which compiles. MapTK which allows me to create TYP files for my own symbology, which I can then embed into the.
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The free version of GPSMapEdit which allows me to import shapefiles, assign a TYP code to each shapefile as I import it and save the results as an. So far I've gotten hold of three pieces of software: I hoped I could pick up a few pointers here. It seems that either I find something that's tough to get into without knowing a few basics, or I find step by step instructions to achieve a particular thing (usually creating an IMG from OSM data) that are tricky to reverse-engineer into instructions to create maps in general. I've been looking to find out what I can about creating IMG maps, but the information is a bit piecemeal.
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I'm using ArcGIS for handling and editing shapefiles, a piece of software I was trained to use at university and have enjoyed using ever since. I will probably look to OSM for footpath data, while I also have some data I have created myself, such as possible locations to photograph. Most of the data I plan on using is from OS Opendata … ducts.html. I may use some OSM data but if I do then I'll be acquiring shapefiles from somewhere like and then extract the data I want from it, and make any necessary adjustments to the projection before saving my own shapefile. Now I know this forum is about OSM, and I don't intend to use OSM exclusively, but there didn't seem to be too many suitable forums around for discussing the creation of Garmin Vector-maps and this was the most-active.
It didn't come with topo installed but then I didn't get it just to use topo, I installed a map from TalkyToaster onto it as soon as it arrived and then set about looking into how I could create my own maps. Also, I'm a bit of a map nerd so the idea of having a device I could load maps onto, and generally do more than just create a tracklog appealed to me, and after initially looking at things that record tracklogs and then the Etrex 10 and 20, I ended up stumping up the extra for a new-over-hauled Extrex 30 since it didn't seem like a huge amount more over a new Etrex 20 and still comes from Garmin as-new and with a warranty. I'm not a massive fan of condensing everything into my phone, I prefer to have dedicated gadgets for specialist functions, I know these days people cream themselves over the idea that their phone is the only technology they need in their lives, but that's just not me also I didn't fancy buying an app for a phone which I might only have for a couple of years. It saves me from forgetting where places are when I go on a longer trip, and even just shooting in places that are familiar to me, it saves a lot of time in placing photographs on the map. I'm a photographer who does a lot of travelling, so it started out I just wanted something I could use to create GPX tracklogs which Adobe Lightroom can use to automatically assign co-ordinates to photographs based on the time-stamp compared to the time in the GPX. I'm new here, and a new owner of a Garmin Etrex 30.
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