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The map has been uploaded. Enjoy people!

Oz,

800MB file was not even the biggest one I had, that one was 1.1GB. That is not the one took most time, the 800MB file did. It took almost 20 hours to process. And yes CGPSMapper was stuck  at 25% CPU for some reason. I attributed it to the fact that I have a Quad Core system and that probably CGPSMapper is not multi-processor aware.

Anyways, as I said, I think I finished the map. I created the installer, checked it on mapsource and am currently uploading the file to GPSDepot. As of this writing it is 45% done and says it will be done 100% in next 30 minutes.

I hope it helps and Thanks for writing the tutorial. It is pretty thorough and fabulous. Now on to the Oregon map...

WOOHOO! Finally, after a lot of sweat, blood and a sprinkle of pixie dust, the WA map is finished. I will start uploading it immediately. Hopefully other people can use it. If there is a problem, let me know and I will see if I can do something about it.

Krellor, earlier, when I was trying to load just all the contours gmp files in GM it would cop out with "Unknow error" = Out of Memory errors. But when I started creating the final catalog to export everything to mp files, it surprisingly did load everything. I kid  you not, my heart was literally in my mouth all the time as the dem files were huge and even the processes nhd files were a few gigs. It did however load everything and did export them properly as well. Right now cgpsmapper has been running since almost midnight last. I divided the task between two parallel cgpsmapper runs and except for 3 files, everything else has been processed. One of the cgpsmappers has been stuck at 18% for its last 800MB mp file for a while now while the other is I think on the last file in its batch as well. So, maybe if gods are happy, I can have this ready by EOD friday?

Thanks Krellor, got your mail. So I will start on the NHD and the transport data for Oregon. And yeah, WOOHOO!! Last night, GM exported all the cgpsmapper files and I started cgpsmapper on converting the mp files to the img files. chug, chug, chug it goes and it has advanced to a large degree, meaning a lot of files are done. I tested one of the IMG files and it works beautifully in map source. At this rate, seems like the WA map will be ready before the week is over

So, here is what I am thinking. I will start downloading and processing the NHD and transportation data for Oregon. Someone else can take up DEM data. After I am done processing the data, I can upload the data to Krellor or deepspace's hosting sites. There is not much point uploading the raw data as that would be a bandwidth killer for not much benefit. Does that sound reasonable?

I meant the excel file not XML. Guess I am feeling sleepy

I would be interested in oregon as well. We could coordinate. We could divide the work between dem, nhd and transportation data. I cannot however host the data. Would that work for you Krellor? or anybody else? By the way, for the site moderator, the washington state xml file is incorrect in that the URLs for the NED data are all the exact same except for the first one. I had to recreate the URLs by hand to get the right data from the seamless server.

Well, if the 40ft map is already done, then there is not much point me doing it as well, but unless I see it out in the wild to be downloadable for free, I will continue. I have finished all the data preparation steps and currently GM is humming along generating the MP files. When that finishes, I will start cgpsmapper and see how that does. I could not find the National Park information and I skipped making the county boundaries, but other than that the rest of the data is there. As someone else pointed out, the Cascade Mountains generate huge contour file but lucky me but I have a good machine so it should be ok. Initially I started with 20ft contours but GM kept on crashing, so I finally switched over to 40ft.

If the MP file generation finishes today, I will start the cgpsmapper process tomorrow morning and hopefully by next week early, the maps will be ready.

Thanks. The data has mostly arrived. I will muck with this and get back to you folks with results.

Hello, I am a newbie. I downloaded the DEM data for the entire state of washington and have finally after a lot of work generated 40ft contours of the whole state in the Global Mapper gmp format. Since GlobalMapper would cop out when I would give it the whole state at once, I did it chunk by chunk. Today I selected all Washington state subbasins and provided the email address to download the files in the morning but have not received anything so far. Any ideas how long it usually takes?

Thanks
-Dhisum