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General Category => Map Making Support => Topic started by: Freddo on March 29, 2009, 05:00:26 AM

Title: Road Colours
Post by: Freddo on March 29, 2009, 05:00:26 AM

Hi,

I have just fairly successfully created my first map in GPSMapEdit, loaded it to a GPS and it all seems to work.

But I would have liked to change the colour of the roads - is this possible? I could not see how to do it, so minor roads are black, the default colour.

Thanks for any help, Freddo

Title: Re: Road Colours
Post by: Boyd on March 29, 2009, 10:12:27 AM

See the section in this tutorial starting on page 33 for an explanation of custom types: http://www.cgpsmapper.com/download/GM8DocV2.pdf

If you get really involved with custom types (especially polygons), you may find that Mapwel offers a better workflow than GPSMapEdit/Cgpsmapper. It has a very nice editor for custom types built-in (they call them "user defined styles") and it can compile the map and upload it to your gps without leaving the program. See: http://www.mapwel.biz/