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TopoFusion Pro / Map disappears after Photofusion Analysis

« on: August 27, 2013, 07:42:11 PM »

I load my tracks and get a topo map. Looks great.

I then apply PhotoFusion and the photos are added perfectly but the map details disappear.

It has been a long time since I have used PF and I'm sure I once knew how to do this. And I searched for an answer. Help me out here.

Thanks... Bob

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TopoFusion Pro / Error 76 in frmMain in Procedure Load

« on: November 29, 2010, 05:19:57 PM »

I just installed 4.05 on a Windows 7 64 bit machine. Clean install TF never on this machine before.

When starting TF I get a dialog box with this error after filling in the Registration Info:
Module: frmMain
Procedure: Load
Line Number: 0
Error Number: 76
Description: Path not found

If I exit the program and restart TF I get the registration box again and the error again.

What do I need to do?

Thanks... Bob

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TopoFusion Pro / User Maps and Calibration

« on: November 06, 2009, 08:59:28 AM »

I'm confused. I guess I thought that I could take a map, like a .jpg, and peg it ("calibrate") to note its position and then use it like other maps. I did read the help on this and did search for topics but I'm still a bit confused.

I have a .jpg map of an area that is not covered by the Garmin mapset. I have some waypoints that were taken in that area. What I would like to do is marry the two and end up with a map and embedded waypoints. Ideally, I'd like to be able to upload that final product into my Garmin and "see" it there. Is this possible?

While I think I know more about this stuff than the average bozo, certainly more than my wife, I confess that there is still a bunch that I don't understand. But I'm trying.

tia... Bob

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TopoFusion Pro / Elevation Smoothing

« on: May 10, 2009, 07:42:32 PM »

I have poked around in the archives and searched but found nothing that directly addresses this for me. This thread talks about smoothing but is not exactly helpful to me:
http://www.topofusion.com/forum/index.php?topic=3177.0
Perhaps I am missing something?

Please consider this vertical profile:
http://ebizmax.com/Boating/MiddleMiddleTygart/profileFusionGarmin.png
exported from TopoFusion.

This is a river track and we are going downstream. I have a Garmin 60csx which has the barometric altimeter. The unit lives inside a drybag in my boat, this should dampen any barometric spikes. Although I have been known to go upstream I can assure you that I did not do so on this trip, at most I would have been at the same elevation for a few minutes like in an eddy. I have no idea why the Garmin data jumps up and down (btw, you can see the other pages and download the raw gdb and gpx files here:
http://ebizmax.com/Boating/MiddleMiddleTygart/Index.html)

I would like to find some sort of very simple smoothing tool that assumes one direction of vertical travel. For example, on this track if some number of vertical observations are moving downward and suddenly one is up throw it out and substitute some midpoint between adjacent observations. I am very interested in the %grade but expressed as feet per mile (standard boater talk).

I have a similar problem when biking. I'll clearly be going steadily uphill, on a rail-trail for example, but the elevation data will jump up and down. More frequent logging just exacerbates the problem.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

tia... Bob

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TopoFusion Pro / PhotoFusion and Photo Timestamps (aka lazy friends)

« on: April 08, 2009, 06:38:29 AM »

I am faced with the prospect of using photos from friends where the timestamp may be as much as two years or more off. Having read the archived posts on this topic my understanding is that the only way to fix this is with the GMT offset and calculating the number of hours/minutes involved. Is this true? Got any suggestions for doing it besides a calculator or the exif editor?

Seems to me like a better way might be for PF to allow the input of the correct time for the first photo in the series and the actual timestamp on that photo. PF could then calculate the difference??? (I'm lazy too.)

tia... Bob

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TopoFusion Pro / Pre Downloading Maps

« on: February 23, 2009, 04:35:46 PM »

A little background about the work environment: Frequently when I work with tracks and photos I'm in a campground and do not have internet access. I can download tracks from my GPS and photos from the camera. I can use PhotoFusion to marry the two. But what I see is this "downloading" wallpaper for a map followed by an error message about no connection.

Is there a way to force a download of an area? Including the 2M level maps? I know where I am and where I'm gonna be for a while. I realize that I could pan and scan, etc, but...

I've also seen reference to a "Map Download Tool" on the forum but don't see it anywhere in the app or the TF directory. Is this something that I could use?

tia.... Bob

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TopoFusion Pro / Photo Symbol

« on: February 23, 2009, 12:17:02 PM »

Although the waypoint image on Photofusion looks like a camera and is not unpleasant:  <sym>Photo</sym> is rendered fairly ugly in MapSource:


<sym>Scenic Area</sym> is what Garmin uses for their camera and of course it looks just great on their map. TF also seems to handle it just fine.

Is there a way to resolve this ugliness? Short of manually changing everything?

tia... Bob

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TopoFusion Pro / Downloading Refresh?

« on: February 19, 2009, 10:52:37 AM »

I have a .gpx file that is open and the background says "Downloading" for a long time and then I get a msg about connections and firewalls. The file in question was first opened in TF when there was no internet connection. I toggled the download button to on.

The firewall is completely disconnected.

I have successfully used TF recently and had no problems. I upgraded to 3.71 in an attempt to fix this. No luck.

Any suggestions? Any way to get more status info?

tia... Bob

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Feature Requests / Suppress Vertical Info on Track/Property/Pictures html export

« on: January 30, 2009, 01:12:48 PM »

This is an amazing feature, really slick.

Sometimes, about half, my tracks are for river paddling, half of that for flatwater. Even tho my Garmin 60csx generates elevations it's mostly bogus. It would be really great to be able to suppress the generation of the three table rows that relate to vertical: Total Climbing, Total Descending, and the bmp graphic.

This page is a good example of what I mean, there being no discernable gradient, maybe 5 feet per mile?
http://ebizmax.com/2009Florida/WekivaRiver/Photos/index.html

I know that I can edit the rows out and I do. But if I have to do it over, yes, I make boo boos, then I have to remember to re-edit the page.

Thanks... Bob

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Archived - Feedback and Comments / Forum Difference

« on: November 26, 2007, 06:13:11 PM »

What's the difference between this forum and the General Support forum?

tia... Bob

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Feature Requests / Export Profile to Clipboard

« on: November 25, 2007, 04:14:30 PM »

Sometimes I just want an image to paste into an email or something. It would be nice to avoid saving a file if I don't need one. (I'll forget about it and then it becomes digital junk.)

tia... Bob

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Feature Requests / Export Profile

« on: November 25, 2007, 04:12:34 PM »

I'd like to see the ability to specify size in pixels when exporting a profile image. I can eyeball it and figure it out but I'd like to be able to just specify 640w for example.

tia... Bob

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Archived Support / Great product and support

« on: November 20, 2007, 08:52:24 AM »

I just wanted to tell you that I'm incredibly impressed with the quality of the posts and support on this forum. It was one of the things that moved me to pay for the product, actually more of that than the limitations since the limits did not seem to affect me very much.

When I saw that the posts were censored, sorry, moderated, I had some reservations. You've gone way beyond erasing my skepticism. I love the product and look fwd to learning more about it.

Finally, I worked for a commercial software house for ten years as developer, development manager including support, and sundry QA and marketing and sales jobs. I understand how difficult product support can be. You are doing a great job.

...Bob

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Archived Support / Trackpoint date changes in network

« on: November 19, 2007, 01:33:51 PM »

I went for a ride on Sunday. (Yeah, I know, congratulations.) Same route up and back down. Created some trackpoints on eTrex Legend and imported to PC.

I modified the elevations with DEM data and saved the file:
http://ebizmax.com/biking....ion.gpx
The trackpoints still have valid, accurate dates at this point.

I used the above file and created a network:
http://ebizmax.com/biking/gambrill/sourcenotes/GambrillNetwork.gpx
Dates on the trackpoints are now mixed some seem ok and others are clearly bogus, like 1977. I have seen this before but don't recall specifics, seems like the dates were 1900 which makes some sense given the history of date coding by MS.

Is this expected? Why?

tia... Bob

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Archived Support / DEM Accuracy

« on: November 12, 2007, 02:44:20 PM »

I did some reading on DEM to try to understand the data a little better. (Or, I tried to, I have a headache now.)

I saw accuracy numbers ranging from 4M to 50M. How accurate are the TF numbers? Do the numbers refer to the elevation or the linear spacing or both?

How granular is the DEM information? For example, I'm looking at a topo with 66ft contour lines (which I assume is converted from 20M), what is the DEM grid for this map? Am I even asking the right question?

Can somebody give the the 25-word version of DEM as applied to tracks?

tia... Bob

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Archived Support / Track Profile Smoothing

« on: November 12, 2007, 02:35:42 PM »

I know that I can add DEM information to a track to improve (?) the profile. I thought I saw someplace that I could "smooth" the profile. Did I make that up? Or, am I thinking of ExpertGPS?

tia... Bob

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Archived Support / Understanding TF File Management

« on: November 06, 2007, 05:01:02 PM »

I'm new to TopoFusion but not to the windows file system and not to GPS data. I've used MapSource and ExpertGPS a bit. I'm not an expert on either.

I'm baffled by the TF file management. I can't tell what I'm looking at. I finally found the file path info on the far right of the log entry. Sometimes when I "Save As" nothing happens. I have found files in the TF directory: C:\Program Files\TopoFusion

Is there a help topic somewhere that explains this? I've read quite a bit of the help and quite a few topics on this forum but I'm feeling stupid.

Finally, this is a great program. I only have the demo at the moment but will probably buy eventually. It does a LOT of stuff that I want to do when I can figure out how to do it.

Thanks... Bob