Viewing multiple products in Mapsource

[John Armstrong]

The 26xx has the option of turning on / off a number of maps. So you can choose to see which overlays eg speed camera locations you want. The maps and overlays are all on the CF card and are ready for use if required. On the PC the same mapsets / overlays are there and available, but, how do you "see" more than one at a time, eg EU CN v8 with the speed camera overlay, etc etc at the same time?

 

[PanEuropean]

Hi John:

Be careful not to confuse apples and oranges here.

Those semi-transparent overlay files that are used for speed camera identification on GPSRs that don't support custom POI uploads are not really 'maps'. The GPSR will only support display and use of one cartography product at any given time. Even if you have 6 products loaded, and all 6 turned on, only one will be active and visible.

MapSource behaves much the same way.

Michael

 

[John Armstrong]

The point I'm trying to make is that on the 2610 you can see CN EU and an overlay at the same time. I'd like to be able to do it on the PC as well.

 

[PanEuropean]

No can do.

 

[John Armstrong]

No can do.

I was hoping you'd not say that

That it'd be something really simple

Glad I'm not missing something

 

[PanEuropean]

I think the reason is this: Those semi-transparent overlay files were not invented by Garmin - they were invented and developed by end users of the GPSRs in the UK, before Garmin introduced the Custom POI feature for the speed cameras.

Because no-one within the Garmin organization developed the overlay files, there was no-one to suggest to the software engineers responsible for MapSource that they give MapSource the ability to display those files on top of an existing (conventional) map.

Perhaps write the MapSource software engineering team and suggest that to them. I'll send you there email address by private message.

Michael

 

[araspitfire]

But there is some distance you can go towards what you want to do...

Easiest.. open two mapsource sessions... Set them to full screen position and zoom them both to the same area... (drop a couple of corner POI's onto both maps and use them to make aligning the two sessions easier).and alt-tab quickly between them... not great...

You can also (whispers) use the same map making tools that created the camera transparent map, to open the garmin maps in the area you want... and merge the two... When you re-assemble them, you will have lost a ton of the original data, but it will still look like a garmin map with the new POI's on it... This option involves several evenings study to learn the tools...

And I've just thought of another... Go to the source that provides the camera database that is for GPSR's that have waypoint warning... ie they are just a big file of proper waypoints.... (as opposed to the transparent overlay one) and load that while looking at the map and area in question... You could even load those waypoints, while looking at your overlay map and see if any are missing in the areas you care about...

Hope this makes sense, it's getting late here...

Al...

 

[PanEuropean]

...Go to the source that provides the camera database that is for GPSR's that have waypoint warning... ie they are just a big file of proper waypoints...

Al - the Custom POI lists are not waypoints at all, they are just lat/long pairs listed in comma or tab delimited format. They look like this:


3.38389 50.73389
3.34972 50.72111
9.127 53.07039 km 90.3 in Rtg. Bremen, unter Geschwindigkeitsregelanlage
8.92972 53.02917 km 104.5 in Rtg. Hamburg, unter Geschwindigkeitsregelanlage
8.91306 53.03639 km 106 in Rtg. Osnabrück, unter Geschwindigkeitsregelanlage
9.17333 53.08694 km 86.5 in Rtg. Hamburg, Höhe Raststätte Grundbergsee
11.19789 49.39539 Schilderbrücke Höhe Kreuz Nürnberg Ost in Rtg. Heilbronn, auch Abstand
10.69089 50.64733 KM125 n. Hochwaldtunnel in Rtg. Meiningen, meist 80km/h
10.69083 50.65028 KM125 n. Tunnel 'Berg Bock' in Rtg. Erfurt, meist 80km/h
10.77694 50.71256 KM117 und KM120 in Rtg. Suhl (im Tunnel), meist 80km/h


I don't think MapSource could do anything with that, but I am no expert in that area.

Michael

 

[HMR]

9.17333 53.08694
11.19789 49.39539

I don't think MapSource could do anything with that, but I am no expert in that area.

What one can do is to convert the coordinates above to waypoints in gpx-format. This MapSource can read. Excel can be used to do the conversion.

Here are the two points above in gpx-format:

<wpt lat="9.17333"  lon="53.08694"> <name>PNT001</name> </wpt>
<wpt lat="11.19789" lon="49.39539"> <name>PNT002</name> </wpt>