Line type and Color

[hawk]

In the properties dialog I changed the line color but it dosn't change on the map.What am I missing or not doing.?

[ScottMorris]

Make sure that track shading is not on -- it will override all track colors.  There's a toggle on the tool bar, or find it in the "Map" menu.

[hawk]

Found it,thank you for your response. Another ? reguarding the map selection tool. When you use that tool and draw the black rectangle around an area,only the limits w/in the rectangle will be down loaded ? What is the batch download? Seems like this would be good if I wanted a specific area only.

[ScottMorris]

Correct, when you do a batch download it will only download tiles inside the box.  If you tried to download every tile your internet connection would be busy for a century or so. 

Batch and the rectangle are the same tool.  If you open up Batch Download and start it, it will ask you to define the area you want.

Note that you can zoom WAAY out and define a larger area... but if you are downloading high res files, see above about centuries of internet time. 

[hawk]

Yesterday I downloaded an area (the whole main screen) to my gpsr just to see what it looked like on the screen. It was reg. topo @ 4, the export box said 6 tiles 6 somthing.Anyway it looked great at all zooms and it took about 10 min. Seems like it should be less time if you did a smaller area. I'm very confused now over the main screen vs whats w/in the box.

[ScottMorris]

OK, I must have misunderstood what you were asking about.  The batch download tool allows you to draw a box around an area and have TopoFusion download maps from internet servers to your computer.  It doesn't have anything to do with exporting maps to your GPS unit.  That is only done within the "Export View" function, and functions as you've seen -- by exporting the current map view.  It will download any missing tiles from internet servers to your computer as it goes.

Hope that helps!