How do I selectively turn on/off custom maps and birdseye in Basecamp
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Sometimes I just want to see the Topo map and other times I want to "layer" a custom map or Birdseye image over it. It doesn't seem that Basecamp has this functionality though. Am I missing something?
Your screenshot looks like to be near Rainhill (Merseyside, UK), and I guess it is a Discoverer 1:25K map? As far as I know you should only see the labels that are part of the scanned map, not these ones...
These labels aren't part of the basemap (because it's a rudimentary map the labels would be way off), and neither from the City Navigator map (the A57 and A570 aren't labeled there).
Maybe it is a cache-problem; clearing the cache could solve that.
You can clear the cache with JaVaWa Device Manager
It cannot be solved by deleting or modifying a file or the registry.
Yes, it's the M62 / A57 / A570 junction - I live near there and I just picked that bit of map to illustrate what I get. The map is purchased/downloaded Birdseye OS 1:25k (the OS paper versions are the Explorer series). In this case the blue rectangles with the road numbers on and red lines above and below are on the roads, but often they are off the roads on any of my maps. They do follow the routes of the Global Map which also does not always follow the routes of a more detailed map.
I installed BaseCamp to a second PC which installed the same Global Map and it has the same road labels – so that would suggest they are part of the Global Map as the same road labels appear all over the Global Map. I installed the free downloadable Garmin OS 25k background map (which goes into “My Collection”) and a British Isles map from GPSFileDepot.com (which installs as a “Map Product”) as a reference for selecting additional Birdseye maps. I still get the road labels no matter what map I view.
To stop any of the Global Map (or other maps in the “Map Product” dropdown box) from showing on top of Birdseye / custom maps I have to set the “Draw Order” higher than 50. So do the “Map Product” maps have a “Draw Order” of 50?
What cache are you suggesting I clear - a Windows cache or a BaseCamp cache?
So why are Base Maps set to a draw order of 50? And are you saying that these road labels are part of the base or “normal” maps?
The screenshot in my previous post was using the GPSFileDepot base map and I’ve just noticed that the road labels I want to get rid of are generally positioned acurately over the roads. If I use the Garmin Global Map the road labels move to over the inacurate roads of the low scale map. I’ve uploaded a new screenshot “Sample Map 2” of almost the same area using the Global base map.
The same screen shot shows what happens when plotting a route – the popup balloon obscures the map to the North. So if I wanted to plot a route along the footpath(the green broken line) heading NNW, I can’t see where the path is going. This gets really awkward out in the country where serveral footpaths twist around in the same area – see screenshot “Sample Map 3” where ther are several footpaths in the same area.
BaseCamp can show only one regular map at the same time; regular maps are those that you select with the drop down box.
BirdsEye imagery/maps are overlays, and are drawn on top of the selected regular map. The BirdsEye draw order controls which BirdsEye layer is shown on top (when you've got several of them) and which elements of the active, regular map are visible (labels are on top, then symbols(?), roads, buildings, larger areas). This can be practical when you've got BirdsEye Sattelite Imagery; you can get a similar view as what Google uses for their hybrid maps.
Setting the draw order at 50 or higher, the underlying regular map should be obscured completely.
The labels you see are part of the currenty selected map; that's why they change position when you select another one. BirdsEye doesn't contain separate items like labels, only images.
Discoverer maps include vector maps, quite similar to City Navigator. What you need is empty vector map, that can be used as a background to your BirdsEye raster.
