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Title: map legend
Post by: bodhigj on July 21, 2009, 05:13:50 PM
 ??? I downloaded the AZ & NM topo maps and loaded them into RoadTrip. I was checking a route I had created using City Navigator on the AZ Topo. There are symbols consisting of a black H on a yellow circular background. If I mouse over them it says unknown. Unknown what? is there a legend for the maps someplace? Sorry if this question is duh!
Title: Re: map legend
Post by: Indrid Cold on July 21, 2009, 09:10:30 PM
Sounds like a Helipad, Helispot or Heliport.

Garmin has a map legend here: http://www8.garmin.com/cartography/mapSource/mapLegend.html

edit to add NM TOPO graphic...
Title: Re: map legend
Post by: -Oz- on July 22, 2009, 02:14:41 AM
I actually think they may be hospitals.  The most recent version of Mapsource (and possible Roadtrip) have a bug where a lot of POIs are "unknown"; it'll be fine on the GPS.
Title: Re: map legend
Post by: Indrid Cold on July 22, 2009, 09:37:26 AM
Quote from: -Oz- on July 22, 2009, 02:14:41 AM
I actually think they may be hospitals.  The most recent version of Mapsource (and possible Roadtrip) have a bug where a lot of POIs are "unknown"; it'll be fine on the GPS.
I would think they came from the Forest Service Misc. Points (e.g. windmill) file and were originally points coded as 61 or 62, shown as "unknown" because they are not labeled. Hospitals are showing on my maps as white squares outlined in black with a blue cross. Here's an examples showing air Services (of course some Hospitals do have Helipads...)

(http://imghst.gpsfiledepot.com/1226220102.jpg)
Title: Re: map legend
Post by: -Oz- on July 22, 2009, 12:09:44 PM
well, you are definitely right :)