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I'll be away and without internet until 17 Mar so no installers until then

To new users: don't worry, questions will be answered by other users.

Hey, found 1+ errors, look near: N36 01 36.0 W78 41 29.0

The contours are in the water...

[Development of this software has ceased. Feel free to follow the create a map tutorial.]

Development of this software has ceased. Feel free to follow the create a map tutorial.

I have been working on a tool that helps me create maps faster than the tutorial I wrote.  This tool is definitely not ready for full prime-time use but can be used by many people.

Features:

• Transportation - Download and process the 2009 Census data automatically (2009 data downloaded added in v1.0.21)
• Contours - uses fw-tools to process the contours; also uses postgis; this is free and easy (GeoTiff Files Required)
• GNIS - points of interest; just like the program gnis_process; works until the usgs changes the file names
• water data - automatic parsing of the water data, read the directions in gray for how the folder needs to be organized
• Forest Service - VERY VERY BETA; I wouldn't use it (i do but in debug mode)
• to .img - just point it to the folder with the .mp files and it'll convert them all to .img

Requires:
- VB6 runtime files (if you have an error download these files and run vb6-support-Install.bat (need to run as an administrator in vista)
- Windows XP/Vista
- PostGIS (and make sure it works on vista, on my two vista computers postgis is failing)
- FWTools
- cgpsmapper

Known bugs:
- Inability to handle some encoding of GNIS files
- PostGIS failures in Vista (fix available in this forum)
- Forest Service processing very confusing

Possible bug:
- May not work with password protected postgresql databases

With all that said: feel free to try it out.  I'd highly recommend using it in place of dem2topo since the runtime files are hard to come by.

With that said, the current version is attached.
BETA: 1.0.21
Released: 8 Feb 09, 20:02 Alaska Time
Download: http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tools/topo_process.zip

Installation:
Just put all the files in the zip file in one directory; don't edit them; run topo_process.exe

I've implemented a new anti-spam measure.

If you're unable to register or have an error please use the contact form and email me so I can fix it.

I've increased the attachment size allows from 128kb to ~5mb.  If anyone thinks they need a larger attachment size for logs, images, map files, etc; just let me know and I'll bump it up again.

I will be away from the internet as I travel to Alaska for the next 4 days.

Any support requests and so on will have to wait until Sep 3rd to get handled.

THIS SYSTEM NO LONGER FUNCTIONS. Check out this tutorial here.

Discuss any issues you have regarding the GNIS to GPX converter program in this thread.

Use this thread to discuss any issues, desires, wants, comments, criticisms of GPS Sway Coordinate Converter.

This is the official support thread for the Arizona topo map.

In addition, support requests can be posted at the Geocaching.com forums if you don't have a username here.