[Mapsource Mac Download
Tilo Chopin
Hi there,Checking as an alternative to OSM (where I cannot find any page for downloading a map, even after an extensive search.)On bbbike.org is supposed to be pretty easy to download a map. However, I see some hickups. I don't know if anyone is conversant with this site.
'Format' gives a lot of options, but no gpx o gdp. Which format to choose?You have to create a 'bounding box'. This gives the boundaries of the map to download. It is supposedly adjustable. But whatever I try, it won't change the boundary.
In case you cannot get bbbike.org to work for you, choose one of the alternatives (which are all based on OSM data, like bbbike): _Map_On_Garmin/Download (scroll down to the tables; in the tables you can find a column if a provider has an installer for mapsource available).
I recently upgraded my copy of Garmin MapSource to 6.15.6. Since then, I can almost never save data that I download from my GPSr as a GPX. MapSource crashes when I try. My GPSr is an etrex Venture HC.
I have contacted Garmin. They had me send them a GDB that I couldn't convert and save. They don't have any trouble with it. At their request, I upgraded my other PC - no good - now I don't have any "working" copy of MapSource at all.
I just tried on a large tracklog that I'd previously saved as a GDB and sure enough it crashed Mapsource 6.15.6. So I'll next try reopening the RAW gpx from my CO 300 and see if it crashes w/o the intermediate GDB save.
The entire TransCanada Trail Database. Over 6000 separate track logs and God knows how many points. It took 3 minutes to save the GPX file. No crash. You guys have some other influence. I'm on XP Pro. What about you guys?
Thanks for taking time to look into this. I'm glad that Garmin is admitting there is a problem, at least to someone. Unfortunately, even skipping the "save as gdb" step doesn't help me. It still crashes.
I would be happy to share a a gdb that causes a problem on my system, but I have nowhere to upload it to. My ISP recently changed their personal web page policies and they no longer provide ftp access. Web pages must be created/modified online using their tools. I can upload videos and music but nothing else.
I have the exact same problem with 6.15.6 which is loaded on two different computers. Neither will save as a gpx file, either from a virgin download from my 76CSx or by calling up a gdb and trying to resave as a gpx file. I also contacted Garmin and sent them a gdb which they had no problem saving as a gpx. I reported this problem on this forum several months ago via a friend because I was having problems accessing this forum.
I have this problem with 6.15.6 too. I can't get it to save tracks from my Garmin etrex summit in gpx format, everything else seems to work okay. Is there any work around (e.g. using Google Earth or something like that)?
I am also unable to convert GDB files to GPX once they have been saved. If I save the file as GPX initially then I am ok. It is frustrating because I had planned out several routes for a recent bike trip and I could not load them as GDB files to my Edge 705, I had to redo all the routes and save them as GPX in order to load them.
Glad I found this thread as I am having the same problem, on a PC with vista -home installed I can not save to GPX files or convert a GBD file to GPS as in both cases mapsource crashes. Version 6.15.6 of mapsource.
Do you need to buy Mapsource as I have a Oregon 400t, all I have is map update 2008 for my Nuvi 350 and no mapsource software on CD. I would like to add some of the maps of the southeast on my Oregon 400t.
I installed new version of Mapsource on my laptop and consistantly crashed when trying to save as GPX, but not opening a gpx file. Generally I was trying to save tracks from my GPS as gpx files. It would crash. So I tried creating a waypoint with mapsource and trying to save that as a GPX and it would crash. I went back to an older version and it now works fine.
When I debug with Visual Studio 2008 it says "Unhandled exception, access violation reading location 0x00000000" so there's an uninitialized NULL pointer. I speculate that some action or option before saving GPX is the reason it works for some and not others.
I'm of course having the exact same problem. ever since April I have been unable to save a .gpx without mapsource crashing. I can save when I need using EasyGPS, but I liked using Mapsource so I could more easily edit the tracks when I could see it overlaid on a map (to make it easy to post to Google Earth for example). It is frustrating that this seems to be a major issue, yet it hasn't been addresses, fixed, and the buggy version is still available for everyone. I tried uninstalling and then running the install for an older version, yet when Mapsource opens it is still 6.15.6
I should have tried it before opening my big mouth. I forgot that MapSource closes the open file when you open a second file. Anyhow, YOUR TIP WORKED!!! You are correct in that loading a gpx initializes something in the program that is missing when it opens on certain computer. Thanks so much for this tip.
Whenever I create new track (or import from GPS) tracks are displayed as black line on white background with black circles for track points. Active track has yellow background. I would like all inactive tracks to have transparent background.
Yes. Open up mapsource. Load your track file. Double click on the track file and it will display the track properties box (you know, coordinates, track time, all the data for all the track points and all that good stuff), at the top of the track properties box you will see a dropdown menu for color. It includes transparent and other colors. Select what you wish and this will now be the default color for the tracks that you have not selected. Getting that color to stick for the next time you use mapsource is the trick. I did it I guess by selecting save at the end of the session.
EraSeek, not bad. As Red90 suggests, and I tried it too, it doesn't stick over multiple MapSource runs. So I have to remember creating one track with colors that I want and then start importing. I may be able to live with that.
What the OP wants is the DEFAULT colour to stay the same. He know how to manually change a tracks colour..... What he want is that when a NEW track is uploaded or created it automatically gets a specific colour.
Now if MapSource didn't preserve saved track color between sessions that would be serious bug. This way, we can agree that you can't set default track color and preserve that setting between sessions.
What Garmin could easily do is allow a user to select multiple tracks, right click to change "Track Properties", and then select a color that is applied to all the selected tracks. They offer that functionality for waypoints.
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