I was a little bored last night so I started playing around with cGpsMapper, MapEdit, and MapSetToolKit..

I managed convert/create and load a map from my gpx tracks.. But the trail lines don't stand out enough on my GPS.. Do you know how to change the trail line colors, and make them dashed vs solid? What settings do you use?

From what I read you have to modify the TYP file??

Also, what Tools do you use to make the NW Trails? Maybe I should have asked that first..

Yes, the .typ file is what is used to customize the look of any line, area or point type. There are reasonably good instructions and tutorials on the cGPSmapper web site and in the download. They include example .typ files that you can modify. One things I learned only through trial and error is that you *must* specify day and night colors for any type, even if you want the type to look the same in both situations. Otherwise, you get strange effects or it doesn't work at all. The instructions are not clear on this and I think even have some examples lacking both sets of colors.

I use cGPSmapper, GPSMapEdit, ArcMap and Global Mapper as my primary tools for data maintenance and map creation.

Yes, the .typ file is what is used to customize the look of any line, area or point type. There are reasonably good instructions and tutorials on the cGPSmapper web site and in the download. They include example .typ files that you can modify. One things I learned only through trial and error is that you *must* specify day and night colors for any type, even if you want the type to look the same in both situations. Otherwise, you get strange effects or it doesn't work at all. The instructions are not clear on this and I think even have some examples lacking both sets of colors.

I use cGPSmapper, GPSMapEdit, ArcMap and Global Mapper as my primary tools for data maintenance and map creation.

Ok.. Cool thanks.. I will play around with it next time I'm bored.. I got the basics working, which is good enough for right now..

Type files use hex color codes (for example, #ffffff for white), not HTML color codes. However, some units (older ones generally) only accept a 246-color palette. I don't believe that this is the case for newer units like the 62s, though.

Are you saying that you are using one of my provided type files and failing to get the expected red color, or are trying to create your own type file? If the latter, are you encoding the proper map ID into the file so that the GPS knows to use it with the mapset?

Thank you Jon, I was just not clicking yes in MapsetToolKit editor to change the FID in my .typ files and happened to click yes to that when I loaded one of your .typ files into my mapset and everything showed up fine in my 62s. I thoughtsince I could see my changes in Mapsourse that it should have also transferred to my 62s but never did so I was going crazy.

Only problem now is your trail polyline still looks smaller in my 62s than my exact same polyline, mine look just slightly largerin my 62s so now I have been trying to figure that out, heheh. Both mine and your polylines are 3 pixels high and I am using thesame border color, just trying different colors for the inside pixels and my trail polylines always still look wider on my GPS unit.Also, I am using 0x16, Pathway/Trail as my polyline type.

This whole thing is proving to be quite the adventure, you must have spent a lot of time on your gigantic NW Topo's mapset!!