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Topo contour lines not showing up on Oregon 450

Started by dwickers, March 19, 2011, 01:34:44 PM

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dwickers

I have successfully transferred the Arizona Topo map to my Oregon 450 SD micro chip (8 gig) using Basecamp.  It is enabled in the SETUP but I'm not getting any 1:24000 contour lines to show up on the unit.  My Oregon 450 is brand new and it's 100% up to date.  Any suggestions on why I'm not getting the contour lines?  :'(

maps4gps

Did you zoom-in (800' display level) to the area of AZ you uploaded to the GPSr?

People tend to try various options with a new unit; do you have a profile active which is told not to display AZ topo?

Are other features in the AZ topo displaying?


dwickers

Yes, I've zoomed all the way down to 10 yd.  I've also tried to pull only 4 quadrants from the Arizona Topo via Basecamp just trying a smaller subset of area.  It does appear that those 4 quadrants (contiguous) are pulling in some of "other features" of the topo area overlay because the 8 mile zoom level I'm seeing that everything surrounding the "4 quadrants" has an "overlay" of crisscrossed blue X's. 

I did see the whole Arizona state topo stuff all working perfectly at one point (briefly) yesterday after spending hours trying to debug my problem.  I was creating "Arizona" folders etc...  and "copying" the send gmapsupp over to it etc..  I wasn't quite sure of what I did to make it work and moved on to start the whole process on California which introduced the "2 files" and Arizona stopped working while California also had no contour lines.   I then spent hours on the web and now understand the gmapsupp issue and that California has a double file which I'll need to deal with later??.  I've spent a couple of days on this but I'm learning.   Any pointers was really be appreciated!

maps4gps

That CA topo is unusually as it is two (contour and non-countour) in one mapset.  One uses quad/tile/segment names with letters, the other uses numbers.  Best to use the marque tool so both get selected. 

In AZ topo, if the non-contour data is showing, so should the contour lines.  The blue crosshatches indicate the area outside the area you sent to the GPSr (when the display is centered within the area sent).  When you move outside the area, the built-in base map will display - if it is enabled.

You can rename the gmapsupp.img file sent by BaseCamp to aztopo.img (etc); however it has to be in the 'Garmin' folder -  Garmin may have recently changed this to a 'Map' folder.  Not sure about the initial cap letter.

Boyd

AFAIK, the "map folder" is a feature of the Nuvi series and not the Oregon.

Do other topo maps display correctly on your Oregon? I believe there's a bug (or "feature") related to profiles and contour lines on the Oregon. What profile is your Oregon set for? Try pressing Profile Change from the main menu. What is currently active, and what else is on the list? I have changed my default profiles long ago on my Oregon so I don't remember what the original ones were. But I think there is one called "recreational" and that is what you should use.

dwickers

 Success!  Your clues about the "profile" put me on the right track.  I believe what happened was  originally being successful with the Arizona topo, my spouse needed the computer so I then started setting up my custom preferences etc...  Well, the first thing I did, of course since I plan to use it while hunting, was the rename the "recreational" profile to "hunting".  The next day, I carefully started doing the transfer steps for "California" and discovered that it had no contour lines.  I had at first just assumed that it was because this state had 2 .img files and simply went back to look at Arizona.  But of course, Arizona was also missing the contour lines.

Thanks so much for the help!  I've literally spent days looking everywhere, not knowing that Garmin profile setups worked in such a manner.  Like you guys said, it's a "feature", not a bug.

;D

Boyd

Glad that helped. I don't really understand what it is about the profiles that can cause this however, since there is no preference for hiding contour lines, and I thought that profiles were just a way to capture all your preference settings.

jbensman

By any chance do you also have City Navigator loaded?  If you do, you are seeing it not the topo map.  To see the topo if you have City Navigator, you have to disable CN in the map set up.  While this could not be the problem, it would explain all your symptoms. 

dwickers

Boyd, I concur with your take on "profiles".  That's exactly why it never crossed by mind to look under that "rock".  I tried just about every other remote possibility I could think of but not profiles.  I literally spent the better part of 3 days trying to solve this problem.  I'm just getting started with this new Oregon 450 so this website, Garmin and the topo options available to this unit.  Agains, thanks a bunch!

Jbensman, I don't have City Navigator loaded.  My wife did just buy a Garmin nuvi 1450 LMT which is sitting behind me in a box which I plan to dedicate to use in the car.