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General Category => Map Making Support => Topic started by: shutle64 on December 28, 2008, 02:23:55 PM

Title: Transparent Topo
Post by: shutle64 on December 28, 2008, 02:23:55 PM
I thinking of trying Transparent Topo while I wait for the water files to show up.  Topo that shows up on City Navigator, it would be cool to the see it in action.

John
Title: Re: Transparent Topo
Post by: shutle64 on December 28, 2008, 10:04:31 PM
I'm getting vitural memory errors at 1/3 of the way of loading the shapefiles in mapedit.  I have 2 Gigs physical.  6 Gigs vitural.  Error out at 2.5 G paged.  I have it at 40ft contours.

The directions for Combining say something about loading mp dem files?

John
Title: Re: Transparent Topo
Post by: -Oz- on December 29, 2008, 12:57:13 PM
My water files I request on christmas showed up today so hopefully yours did as well.

GPSMapEdit does a poor job of handling large files.  I would suggest converting each .shp file to an individual .mp file (or just 1gb at a time) then you can treat each .mp file as a separate  .img file; just change the header from Transparent=N to Y.
Title: Re: Transparent Topo
Post by: shutle64 on December 29, 2008, 04:52:47 PM
I convert the shp to mp files with GPSmapedit?

The water files showed up.  I requested a few this morning, I had them before noon.

John
Title: Re: Transparent Topo
Post by: -Oz- on December 29, 2008, 09:55:48 PM
yes gpsmapedit can convert them from shp to mp.
Title: Re: Transparent Topo
Post by: shutle64 on December 30, 2008, 10:39:16 AM
I'm going to try using MemTurbo and see if I can free up the physical memory for GPSmapedit.  It's good at pushing physical memory off to virtual cache way before it runs out of physical memory.

John
Title: Re: Transparent Topo
Post by: -Oz- on December 30, 2008, 01:31:50 PM
let me know how that works