Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Group Forum: GPS :: Garmin Custom Maps in BaseCamp... empty
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Here goes: I deleted all of the existing Custom Maps from My Collection and then dragged the individual .kmz files (one at a time, but probably wasn't necessary) directly from my iMac's Finder window into the My Collection suitcase. This created 40 individual New Lists, each named with the .kmz file's name (i.e. Rose Cliffs Loop.kmz), each containing a single Custom Map (i.e. Rose Cliffs Loop). I then deleted these New Lists and kept the Custom Maps when the window popped up warning me that I was about to delete this list's unique items from My Collection. ("You are about to delete a list which contains items not found in your other lists.") The current puzzler has to do with Draw Order. Almost all are Draw Order: 20. The only exception is my Apostle Islands Ice Caves Map, at Draw Order: 37. I can't figure out why this oddball value appears. My best guess has to do with corresponding to the opacity chosen in Google Earth when creating the map. But that was back in Feb 2014, and who knows what I was thinking then... (Now, I see that you can go back to Google Earth and modify your opacity and then export a new Custom Map with that revised value, but no need to mess with a good thing here...) Where a better understanding of Draw Order will help is with my set of 27 Superior Hiking Trail Section Custom Maps, taken from .jpg files on the STHA website back in Nov 2011. A series of overlapping rectangles that travel up the North Shore, one map will sometimes hide crucial details on another due to all being set at Draw Order: 20. Within BaseCamp, you can change the order, which helps, but one can only modify the setting in increments of 10, and then once you get to 50, details in the base map disappear, such as elevation lines in my mntopo11 map. I hate to think that I need to go back to Google Earth and fiddle with opacity and then export new .klm files, just to get the finer degree of separation needed... Back to the drawing board. So to speak. |
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schweady |
A few years back, I made a set of 27 Custom Maps from the jpg files on the Superior Hiking Trail Association's website. Incredibly helpful to have on the 62st, but it seems that there are always 8-10 of them that are "invisible" when using BaseCamp for planning. Re-importing the offending maps provides a (temporary) fix, but then after a while a different set of maps decide to disappear. So weird. Suggestions? |