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#1
General Discussion / Re: where do i get canadian topos?
February 07, 2010, 11:45:59 AM
If you have an Oregon/Colorado/Dakota unit, you can also utilize the custom map ability to load the raster images of the Canadian Government paper topos (1:50K).   

The geoTiffs are available at
http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/product/search.do?id=10119

You can read about making custom maps at http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/us/onthetrail/custommaps#fragment-2

You will want a utility like G-Raster to break the GeoTiffs into usable JPEG tiles.  See http://moagu.com/?page_id=155

You'll probably also want Google Earth (which is pretty cool in and of itself), although it isn't strictly necessary.

Sadly, you can only load a very limited number of Topos this way.  I get about 20 tiles per Topo.  Since the units are limited to 100 tiles, that's just 5 topos.  They are very nice maps, though the resolution isn't quite as good as on most detailed US Topos.  They are generally more up-to-date than US topos (the raster maps anyway).

With any luck, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources will make it's Ontario Base Maps available digitally someday.  They are 1:10K, which beats anything I'm aware of in the U.S.  See http://themnrstore.mnr.gov.on.ca/english/map.asp?tid=0&cat=3&subcat=4 for previews.

Of course, in many ways vector maps are better, but I grew up on the paper maps, and I still love the way they look, especially now that I don't actually have to carry them around.
#2
GPSr Units / Re: Odd (?) Oregon Behavior
February 03, 2010, 10:44:15 AM
Yes.  Thank you.  That was the problem.
#3
GPSr Units / Odd (?) Oregon Behavior
February 01, 2010, 11:06:55 AM
I have an Oregon 550.  I'm using the Northeast Topo United States.  In some of my profiles, the water shows up on the map as blue and in the rest of the profiles the water shows up as white.  I've tried disabling and enabling different combinations of maps without being able to figure out why.  If there is some setting that sets the color of the water, I can't find it.  Any thoughts?
#4
I have created a KMZ file in Google Earth.  When I try to run G-Raster on it on the file, the program just hangs.  The underlying map was a PDF that I converted to a JPG using Photoshop Elements.  I think I read somewhere that this can cause problems.  Anyone else experience this or know a solution?

Thanks