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Shaded map areas

Why is Wisconsin shaded on this view of my map (CNNA 2021.1)? There are other states that appear this way (like PA, but only portions of others, e.g. ME)

Thanks all.

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Garmin-Andrew over 5 years ago +1 verified

D._Pendleton, SUSSAMB, I got confirmation from the Cartography team that this is by-design and is what I suspected. The gray color indicates township, and since some states like Wisconsin govern themselves…

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0 Garmin-Andrew over 5 years ago

The gray-shaded area represents city limits and townships

0 D._Pendleton over 5 years ago in reply to Garmin-Andrew

Why is it only Wisconsin and none of the surrounding states?

0 SUSSAMB over 5 years ago in reply to D._Pendleton

And why are some complete states shaded? Presumably a map error?

P.S. Great to see some Garmin staff here at last

0 Garmin-Andrew over 5 years ago in reply to SUSSAMB

I'm double checking on this, but I believe it's based on the land designations of each state -- for me, anywhere I click in a shaded area in Wisconsin or some of the other all-gray states in New England shows a "twn" indicating a township. In my state where we don't have townships, the same gray color represents incorporated cities.

0 Garmin-Andrew over 5 years ago

D._Pendleton, SUSSAMB, I got confirmation from the Cartography team that this is by-design and is what I suspected. The gray color indicates township, and since some states like Wisconsin govern themselves heavily with townships, it shows up as all-gray. Also, for me in BaseCamp, Wisconsin shows all-gray when zoomed far in at any detail level, however, only when it's on Highest or Higher detail level does it appear as the screenshot does when Zoomed out. Changing the detail level to High or lower will show Wisconsin as the same color as the other states when zoomed out.

0 SUSSAMB over 5 years ago in reply to Garmin-Andrew

Thanks, that explains it.

0 D._Pendleton over 5 years ago in reply to Garmin-Andrew

Thank you, Andrew.