Map from tracks (drive around making tracks then edit into map)

Former Member over 13 years ago

I promise I've searched and randomly read posts looking for a start but obviously I've not found the answers I'm looking for. Be gentle please.

The goal is to create a map of Jeep trails and include data such as trail names and POI's. The output to be converted to a pdf and also saved in some form that can be uploaded to a GPS. Note that in my case it's a Jeep but the same situation could apply if the person was a hiker, ATV'er, or snowmobiler, etc.

What I've done is drive around on the trails creating tracks with my Oregon 200. When I could I would stop at intersections or where the trail ends saving that track and starting a new one. Inevitably, I drove some of the same trails twice or more so in places things are messy. Now I need to figure out how to edit these tracks which includes deleting track portions, adding labels, etc.

I've looked through the Garmin tutorials, this forum, and even some Google searches but I can't seem to get anywhere. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance ~ Jerry

0 JaVaWa over 13 years ago

Load your tracks and waypoints into Garmin BaseCamp for clean up and editing; export them to a GPX file an use IMGfromGPX to create a map from it.
http://www.javawa.nl/imgfromgpx_en.html

0 Former Member over 13 years ago

IMGfromGPX looks like it might be a good solution for the second part, thank you. Now, does anyone know of some detailed "how-to's" on manipulating tracks in Basecamp?

0 SUSSAMB over 13 years ago

Have you looked at the videos in the second sticky?

0 Former Member over 13 years ago

The goal is to create a map of Jeep trails and include data such as trail names and POI's.

That is very near to that, what Openstreetmap does. See

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide

0 Former Member over 13 years ago

Have you looked at the videos in the second sticky?

Yup. I dove back in again and something must have clicked as I think I'm finally making some headway. One of the big problems is that I have so many tracks and a number of them overlapping that it takes a while to sort things out. Breaking the area down into small chunks makes things not so overwhelming.

I'm thinking about writing a guide or how-to if you will in an effort to help the next guy.

The girlfriend manages what amounts to a commercial print shop for a hospital. They have all kinds of large format color printers so I'm going to con her into some printed maps when I'm done.

JLE