Ok so I have had a chance to play around with the map set for a bit now and it really looks great Oz. You really put a lot of work into this and at the very least I really appreciate all of your hard work getting these maps and all of your others made and available to everybody. Garmin should be soliciting you to come on board with them after your service to our country is over.
The only thing that I have noticed that may be confusing to some users(and I know that it came up in the discussion about your New Mexico map) is the trails. I saw in your description that you used data from the NW Trails Project and data from forest service sources. In some areas this created multiple trail tracks as of corse no one agrees on the exact locations of the trails.
Here is a comparison screen shot of an area in the sawtooths as an example.
First from Idaho Topo
From Northwest Trails
And from National Geo ID
And finaly from the GPSr with both Idaho Topo and NW Tails Loaded
Comparing the National Geo and the NW Trails they look to be quite similar in overall location from TOPO Idaho in this particular area there appears to be 4 separate trail tracks. 2 of which seem to follow the same corse as the others products very closely through the switch backs on the hill side wile 2 others are very zig zagy approximations of the trail.
I know that in the discussion in the NM map listing on GC.Com your point was that many people are unable to comprehend using multiple maps in an export from Mapsource. To be fair Garmin dose not give a great deal of information out with any of there products as to all of the features, capabilities, etc. You have done a great job with your tutorials explaining how to do everything of this nature. Not sure what the best compromise would be. I believe you should continue to put trails into your maps rather than leaving any relevant data out. But four sets of a trail can be a bit overwhelming. In the northwest, with the NW Trails Project, the trails from them are hi-lighted in red making viewing and navigating very easy. I,m not asking you to change anything with ID just some food for though for Oregon. At 36 hours each (there is a lot of vertical here) making any adjustment would be a nightmare.
Sorry for such a long post. I hope Oregon goes smother for you than ID did (at least time wise). Thanks agin for this
Paul
The only thing that I have noticed that may be confusing to some users(and I know that it came up in the discussion about your New Mexico map) is the trails. I saw in your description that you used data from the NW Trails Project and data from forest service sources. In some areas this created multiple trail tracks as of corse no one agrees on the exact locations of the trails.
Here is a comparison screen shot of an area in the sawtooths as an example.
First from Idaho Topo
From Northwest Trails
And from National Geo ID
And finaly from the GPSr with both Idaho Topo and NW Tails Loaded
Comparing the National Geo and the NW Trails they look to be quite similar in overall location from TOPO Idaho in this particular area there appears to be 4 separate trail tracks. 2 of which seem to follow the same corse as the others products very closely through the switch backs on the hill side wile 2 others are very zig zagy approximations of the trail.
I know that in the discussion in the NM map listing on GC.Com your point was that many people are unable to comprehend using multiple maps in an export from Mapsource. To be fair Garmin dose not give a great deal of information out with any of there products as to all of the features, capabilities, etc. You have done a great job with your tutorials explaining how to do everything of this nature. Not sure what the best compromise would be. I believe you should continue to put trails into your maps rather than leaving any relevant data out. But four sets of a trail can be a bit overwhelming. In the northwest, with the NW Trails Project, the trails from them are hi-lighted in red making viewing and navigating very easy. I,m not asking you to change anything with ID just some food for though for Oregon. At 36 hours each (there is a lot of vertical here) making any adjustment would be a nightmare.
Sorry for such a long post. I hope Oregon goes smother for you than ID did (at least time wise). Thanks agin for this
Paul
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