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Thanks for the additional info, I didn't know the data was processed by county.  I chose the "Northeast Topo United States Part 1 of 3" because it covered the area of interest and was an editors choice.  But roads aren't included for Addison and Caledonia counties in Vermont.

I don't have any prior experience with topo maps but "Northeast Topo United States Part 1 of 3" is very nice in that it shows rivers with some width rather than just a blue line plus it has more extensive POIs than the others I looked at.  What I attempted was to select mostly from this map and then substitute Caledonia county from the Savage topo.  This seemed to work, at least it generated appropriate files on a thumb drive.  I haven't figured out how to look at the result with the PC so when the GPSr arrives I'll copy these files to the microsd card and see whether it works.

Thanks for helping this newbie get started.

Thanks for the response, it was very helpful.  I recently ordered a 60CSx via eBay so I'm trying to understand the tools prior to its arrival.

MapSource doesn't show a drop down menu on the left for me but the  View/Switch to Product seemed to make the map recognizable by MapSource.   It isn't clear whether Mapsource thinks this map is "installed" but it lets me work with it. Per your suggestion, I now see a list of files in the left pane after selecting an area.

Which leaves the question of whether the NE Topo installed incorrectly or there is an issue with the map itself.   In the St. Johnsbury/Lyndonville Vermont area of the map the roads are missing although the topography and some POIs are displayed.

Are the roads part of the Topo map or are they separate files that overlay the Topo map?

I expect to hike in the Lyndonville area this summer so this particular set of road details is of real interest to me.

I'm new at this and unfortunately have botched something as I try to come up to speed.

I'm running XP SP3. I installed the latest Mapsource and it seems to run.  

I downloaded the NE USA Topo Part 1 and ran its installer.  I had the installer use a folder on D: rather than the default since C: doesn't have much room.  The installer completed normally.  But Mapsource doesn't show a map in the left pane.  So I tried to use MapSetToolkit to install the map but after filling out the form its Install said: "Family ID exist".

I didn't install cgpsmapper because it isn't needed when using a map from GPSFileDepot.  Or at least it isn't used explicitly.  The tutorial says to load both MapsetToolkit and cgpsmapper before the flow splits and the path I took didn't need cgpsmapper.  But MapSetToolkit mentions cgpsmapper so now I'm not sure.  I prefer to install as few programs as possible but maybe I went too far here?

I expected the installer to make NE Topo show in Mapsource and wonder if this didn't happen because I installed in a non-standard place?


EDIT:  View/Switch to Product  showed NE Topo and selecting it made the map visible.
        View/Map Detail/Highest shows a nice Topo map

EDIT2:  Some areas of the map don't show roads.  The area around Lyndonville, VT has no roads, at 2mi scale there is a gray line around the area and roads end at that line -- Rt 91 is missing a section there.  Similarly for the area east of Lake Champlain & south of Rt 89.  Not sure if it was an install problem or the map is missing these details.

But Mapsource's left pane doesn't show it and it says 0 maps

How do I get Mapsource to recognize this map?

Thanks,  John