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TopoFusion Pro / Re: My Topo going dead?

« on: June 02, 2016, 08:51:37 AM »

Interesting, thanks for the links.  It appears that Terrain Navigator (what used to be called Maptech Terrain Navigator) itself is continuing on, and that it has a mobile app, still.  So the tile service may continue on, and there's nothing to suggest that myTopo's print based services are shutting down, either.

I'll keep looking, but it regardless if there is any way to get another source going, now is the time.

Thanks again.

152

TopoFusion Pro / Re: My Topo going dead?

« on: June 01, 2016, 07:15:23 PM »

Hi,

Thanks for the post.  I wasn't aware of this.  So they got bought by Trimble some years ago, but TF's agreement with them remained intact.  Is it possible they are only shutting down the paper map printing side of myTopo but keeping the tiles?  I think the Trimble phone apps still use them, so unless they have an alternate source, that would seem odd.

Any additional info on this, or that you could learn, would be appreciated.

Unfortunately the USGS servers don't seem to want to serve actual topos, though they certainly could.  I have one alternate topo server up my sleeve that I think TF can use, so there is still hope.  There's also a non-free option that I may be able to explore.

In short, I'll do everything I can do to make sure TF users still have a viable topo map source.

153

Feature Requests / Re: Differentiate between types of activity

« on: April 29, 2016, 08:56:27 AM »

If you select an entry in the logbook, then hit 'edit this entry' you can change the activity type.  It'll show an icon for it.

The default icon for new entries added is set in Options->Preferences->General->User Type. 

I believe you can do per-activity summaries for a date range, using the logbook, too.

154

Feature Requests / Re: Differentiate between types of activity

« on: April 27, 2016, 10:25:32 AM »

Hi there,

Take a look at the logbook function.  It has an 'activity type' selector with different icons.  There isn't a way to see that data in the main TF window, though.

The size of the lower 'active list' and directory explorer should save between runs of the software.  The height of it is saved, at least, so maybe you are repeatedly changing the width as well?

Thanks for the post.

155

Feature Requests / Re: "Combine" Function for Tracks

« on: April 22, 2016, 04:34:39 PM »

Hi Bill,

Great suggestion.  If I understand correctly, what you're asking for is already there, in fact!

If you select multiple *files* in the active file list, you can right click and then do "merge files and save as...".  It will keep all the tracks separate and let you write out a new GPX file.

Hope that does it for you!

156

TopoFusion Pro / Re: Refreshing Color Tiles

« on: April 22, 2016, 09:35:53 AM »

Hi Bill,

For certain tilesets you can force refresh for the whole thing -- particularly open streets, open aerial, etc.   Go to Options->Tilesets->Expire Maps.

Or, if you only need a few, use the refresh maps tool to click on tiles individually.

Best,

Scott
 

157

TopoFusion Pro / Re: DEM accuracy in Africa?

« on: April 05, 2016, 08:19:49 PM »

Hi Alistair,

Thanks for the post.  The source for TF is the same SRTM1 30m data available from the USGS.  It's the best free source I know of for outside the US.

I am not sure if google's elevation service is any better for SA or not.

Hope that helps.

158

TopoFusion Pro / Re: Live tracking w/Garmin Nuvi

« on: March 13, 2016, 03:39:09 PM »

Hi there,

Let's see.  There are so many Nuvi models that it is hard to know exactly, but the mode used for live tracking is important.  Your GPS may or may not support one or both.  The two are NMEA and Garmin's PVT protocol.  TopoFusion supports both, but it won't look for both.  You'll need to try them both.  It's a matter of getting the unit into live tracking mode sometimes, as well, but often that is automatic.

So if you tried Garmin mode, try NMEA, or the other way around, and let me know how it goes.

Thanks!

159

TopoFusion Anouncements / 5.20 out - details on the main site

« on: February 08, 2016, 07:42:44 PM »

Check the details here:

http://topofusion.com/news/2016/02/08/5-20-released-instantaneous-grade-juicy-trails/

MSRmaps continues to be flakey.  Use myTopo instead!

160

TopoFusion Pro / Re: Joining tracks that are in opposite directions.

« on: February 08, 2016, 06:54:40 PM »

Hi George,

Thanks for the post.  This is something a lot of folks run into.

You can do exactly what you want to do (reverse as you merge) using TopoFusion.  You just need to dig into the right click menu.  Once you add a segment to your merged track, right click anywhere on the map to get the menu to come up.  You can then reverse the last segment added to match up the way you want.  The key is to get the first segment you click on going the direction you want, then reverse any subsequent segments afterward, as you go.

Hope that helps, if it's not clear what I mean, don't hesitate to ask more questions!

161

TopoFusion Pro / Re: Trouble Exporting View

« on: January 31, 2016, 11:01:36 AM »

Unfortunately the server for both of those tilesets hasn't been working well lately.  You'll need to try myTopo instead.

Thanks for the patience.

162

TopoFusion Pro / Re: Trouble Exporting View

« on: January 31, 2016, 10:17:01 AM »

Hi,

Which tileset are you trying to export for?  It does indeed look like it's trying to download missing tiles (possibly much higher resolution than your current view).  If it's the older Topo 4m / Topo 16m tiles, they probably won't load at this time due to the inconsistent server.

Couple things to try:

1) different tileset, like myTopo
2) smaller area to export
3) Tileset preference: use Current

The last one will keep the zoom level from needing to download too many new maps.

Hope that helps some.

163

Beta Testing / 5.20 Beta

« on: January 20, 2016, 09:24:59 PM »

Got a few fixes and updates.  Loving the easy Grade measuring ability now in the draw tool.

5.20 – [1/20/16]

Added instantaneous Grade display to track drawing
New 2016 Splash Screens
Fixed potential crashes with splining and simplifying, especially multiple times
  In a session
Fixed access to Juicy Trails tileset
Clarified text on spline dialog
Added text to Download Disabled dialog when using MSRmaps tiles (server
  Continues to work intermittently

164

TopoFusion Pro / Re: Stuck "downloading" tiles

« on: January 20, 2016, 12:36:00 PM »

Thanks for the diff file, that helps.

I don't notice too many things amiss.  My only thought is that perhaps it's the "NumThreads=25" line.  It could be that the VM has a limit on # of threads for a process?  The default is 15, but maybe you cranked it to 25 and that caused total thread failure.

If you want to try setting it at 25, do let me know (it works fine on my native machine).  I'd appreciate the help debugging.

Thanks.

165

TopoFusion Pro / Re: Stuck "downloading" tiles

« on: January 15, 2016, 12:35:56 PM »

You've got it well covered.  I think you might be right on the thread part, though, if Windows is running and a web browser is running, it's hard to believe a couple of download threads wouldn't be starting up just fine.  There would probably be some indication of that in the log, too.

Well, last ditch would be to reset your .INI file -- if you can find it (may be buried in a windows location, might be right where TopoFusion.exe is) you can just move it to a different directory and then start TF so you get a fresh one.  Or there is a shortcut link in the TF program group that will reset the INI file for you ("Reset TF to default settings").

If THAT doesn't get tiles downloading, we'll have to look deeper.  Could be some odd internet setting in the INI that I don't quite have the right check against.

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: Stuck "downloading" tiles

« on: January 15, 2016, 10:56:09 AM »

That's the expected result in a new directory with no tiles being successfully downloaded.

So... your map cache is OK.

Something is preventing it from downloading tiles.  I assume you are trying multiple map types, with the same result?

Could Windows firewall now be blocking TF, given all the silly updates the OS did?

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: Stuck "downloading" tiles

« on: January 15, 2016, 10:16:02 AM »

Gotcha.

Well, I suppose next thing to try is changing your map cache directory to a new and empty one, then restart TF.  See if that allows download of new tiles.

That'll tell us what's going on.

168

TopoFusion Anouncements / Re: MSRMaps intermittent - use myTopo

« on: January 15, 2016, 10:14:17 AM »

Just as an update, the server is continuing to be intermittently available.

169

TopoFusion Pro / Re: Linux again

« on: January 15, 2016, 10:12:33 AM »

Looks like the tiles are not being loaded into a D3D surface, which means they won't display.  Here's the line of code:

hr = D3DXLoadSurfaceFromFileInMemory(surf,0,0,buf+ii,buflen-ii,0,D3DX_FILTER_NONE,0,0);

Best of luck!

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: Stuck "downloading" tiles

« on: January 15, 2016, 10:08:04 AM »

Hi,

Thanks for the log and sorry about the issue!

It looks like TopoFusion is perfectly happy with your map cache and the index file, since it did get updated yesterday.  The files wouldn't be 'touched' until you close the software, assuming no new tiles were successfully downloaded.

I'm not super familiar with how parallels works, but is it possible your whole VM is being blocked on port 80?  Can you confirm a web browser works in Windows?

171

TopoFusion Pro / Re: Linux again

« on: November 29, 2015, 09:41:23 AM »

Hi,

Thanks for the post.  I believe I closed the auxiliary forums when I was losing the battle against spam.  I have some new protections that seem to be working much better, so perhaps I can re-enable them.

So here is the line of code that is failing:

ddrval = D3DXCreateTextureFromFileInMemoryEx(g_pd3dDevice,buffer,size,0,0,1,0,D3DFMT_UNKNOWN,D3DPOOL_MANAGED, D3DX_FILTER_NONE, D3DX_FILTER_NONE,colorkey,NULL,NULL,&texture);
DDCHECK(ddrval);

This line is called for loading things like the 'downloading' tile, arrows and points.  Basically these things are stored as 'resources' in the code (so a part of the executable), and the code is turning them from images into direct3D textures for quick drawing.

I'd guess the D3D part is working, but the resources aren't found or aren't correctly loaded (given the Invalid data message).

Hope that helps some.  Let us know how it goes!

Thanks
 

172

TopoFusion Pro / Re: USGS Topo tile sets not downloading

« on: November 20, 2015, 05:09:16 PM »

Unfortunately, MyTopo, OpenStreet and Open Cycle aren't rectified for use in Canada or Alaska.  There's marked skewing

That's true, in high latitudes there is horizontal distortion.  Things still work, and the rest of the software is functional along with the skewing, but it isn't ideal.  Southern Canada can be usable, but it's bad up in AK.

I'm hopeful we can move to a full mercator projection in TF and take care of this issue in the future.

Thanks for the post.

173

TopoFusion Anouncements / MSRMaps intermittent - use myTopo

« on: November 10, 2015, 10:01:18 AM »

Howdy folks,

Just wanted to make a quick announcement about the general stability of MSRmaps maps in TopoFusion.  Right now the server is not responding at all, so none of the classic topo tilesets will download (e.g. Topo16, Topo 4m).

We've received a number of emails from folks that have noticed, and we always respond that the myTopo maps should be used as the primary topo tileset.  MyTopo is much more reliable, and also has more recent and higher quality maps.

It's still nice to have the older Topos as a reference, and we do expect MSRMaps server will come back online soon, but it is highly likely that intermittent outages will continue.

Thanks!  Topo-on!

174

TopoFusion Pro / Re: Etrex 30 Download tracks w/SD card installed

« on: October 25, 2015, 05:46:18 PM »

Hi Gary,

Thanks for the post.

I think you are right, and that the '...' button should really allow one to point the dialog at any GPX directory.  The ability to merge files and such there is a nice little feature and that would solve the SD card issue too -- just point it to whichever GPX dir you want.

Thanks

175

TopoFusion Pro / Re: Search feature

« on: October 20, 2015, 07:27:34 AM »

FYI - This was fixed with the latest release - v5.13.  Thanks again for pointing it out.  It stopped working in mid-September due to an API change.

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TopoFusion Basic / Re: select a section of a track to analyse?

« on: October 20, 2015, 07:26:22 AM »

Hi,

Sorry, the profile tool can only do stats for the entire track, or for a portion of a track from the *start* to any point in the middle (by mouse-over on the profile).

If you want a different starting point, you can use the scissors tool to cut the track at that point, then profile the rest of the track.  Be careful not to save out the file if you do this, though!

Thanks for the question.

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: Search feature

« on: September 23, 2015, 02:22:56 PM »

I can confirm this isn't working.  Looks like a server change.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention.  Will get it fixed soon.

178

Feature Requests / Re: Request to add National Geographic map tiles

« on: September 22, 2015, 09:08:13 AM »

Looks like those can be added -- nice bigger overview maps.  Not that great at the fine detail, but could be a nice addition.

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Feature Requests / Re: Support of new FIT data types

« on: September 22, 2015, 08:29:59 AM »

Thanks for the post.  I'm not sure exactly what would make sense to display on the TF side.  All the leaderboards and such are tied to online content with lots of rich features best viewed on strava or garmin connect directly, right?  Surely the actual leaderboards aren't stored in FIT files -- maybe just a link to the relevant segments?  I guess if there is a way to link to and find segments, that would be cool.

180

Feature Requests / Re: Map list organizing

« on: September 13, 2015, 08:57:33 AM »

Great suggestion, Wayne.  Makes a lot of sense.

Will do in the next release.

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: USGS Topo tile sets not downloading

« on: September 11, 2015, 05:37:45 PM »

Thanks for the post!  They are still a bit intermittent at times, but yes, seem to be mostly online.

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Feature Requests / Re: Altitude graphic within Multi-track playback

« on: August 09, 2015, 01:46:16 PM »

Glen,

I see -- something like a Heads Up Display with a large readout would be cool.  There are a couple other TF users that would find this useful (one that does training videos of road rides to watch while riding a computrainer or other indoor trainer).

You can get the position on the elevation plot using the profile tool and singletrack playback, though.

Cheers

183

Feature Requests / Re: Altitude graphic within Multi-track playback

« on: August 08, 2015, 09:48:36 AM »

Hi Glenn,

Very cool, thanks for the post.  Have you tried single track playback available inside the profile window?  It will show position on the profile as well as live stats.  Also there is the elevation checkbox on multi-track playback.

I've had good luck using a program called 'CamStudio' to capture TF screen grabs directly into a movie, as well.  That might save you a step.

Cheers

Scott

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: USGS Topo tile sets not downloading

« on: July 22, 2015, 06:09:41 PM »

Hey everyone,

It looks like we are in the middle of an extended outage of MSRmaps.com.

You can check the status by going direct to: http://msrmaps.com/

I recommend using myTopo, TopoUS or openCycleMap in the meantime.

Thanks for the patience.

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Feature Requests / Re: APRS - Scott - USA PhotoMaps released their source code - Includes APRS

« on: July 04, 2015, 02:44:10 PM »

Hey Ed,

Thanks for the post on this.  I think JDCox released his source some time ago.  It might help the process, for sure.

I'm heading out on the trail for most of the rest of the summer, but will check back in on it in the fall.

Cheers

Scott

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TopoFusion Anouncements / Re: Topo and MyTopo out

« on: July 04, 2015, 02:03:20 PM »

Update: Version 5.11 is out now with the myTopo fix as well as other improvements.

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: DEM gives zero elevation? Can't figure it out.

« on: July 04, 2015, 02:02:33 PM »

Glad you figured it out, thanks for following up.

Download/cache is the default setting, but sometimes the defaults get changed. 

Cheers!

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TopoFusion Anouncements / Topo and MyTopo out

« on: June 29, 2015, 12:10:13 PM »

For the past couple of days both the myTopo and regular Topo (msrmaps.com) tilesets in TopoFusion have not been functional.

We are working on a new version of the software, to be released soon, to address this.  Thanks for the patience.

189

Beta Testing / v5.1 Beta Out

« on: June 18, 2015, 05:26:21 PM »

This release adds new European topo maps and cleans up or improves a number of issues.  See notes below!

5.1 – [6/18/15] (Beta)

Added new European topo maps (OpenTopoMap.org)
Added support for gpxx:DisplayColor attribute in GPX files
Improved memory usage for files with large number of waypoints
Added support for KMZ exports from google maps ‘engine’ (.kmz without doc.kml)
Improved speed (clipping) for selection and manipulation of large files
Added download support for Garmin Fenix units (.fit format)
Fixed Insert point not always inserting points (after deleting points)
Fixed Canadian Topos access string (2 insignificant layers removed)
Fixed reading missing elevations in .FIT files
Fixed access for GM tiles
Removed reporting of elevations below -200m
Fixed bug loading .kml files with more than 100 track segments

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: Track length calculation

« on: May 17, 2015, 08:02:14 AM »

Hi Ted,

Thanks for the post.  This is a good question.

If you have drawn this in based on multiple tracks in the area, I would tend to trust this track.  It looks pretty good to me... perhaps only very slightly short if I had to guess.

It would be interesting to compare tracklogs for people that are claiming 7+ miles.  I bet we would see a lot of error.  Running GPS units + tree cover = a fair bit of error.  And error tends to increase the distance, in most cases.

Hope that helps.

Scott

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: Inserting track points issue.

« on: May 12, 2015, 08:31:12 AM »

Hi there,

The software tries to interpolate values when you insert a new one.  It may not be doing it correctly for HR/Power/Cad.  It makes sense to do it for elevation and time, though.

One simple fix is to use the "Strip power/cad/hr" function on the track first.  Then you should remain at "NO DATA" for all.  I will take a look at what it's doing when there is data.

Thanks,

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: USGS Aerials

« on: April 28, 2015, 05:28:20 PM »

Hi Roger,

Thanks for the note.

I'm seeing good response from the server on my end.  But coverage for the USGS aerials has never been complete.  I would guess that sometimes the coverage varies as they change what's available on the server.

I think it's supposed to be better imagery near urban areas.

Best,

Scott

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: Custom WMS Servers & https encryption

« on: April 02, 2015, 02:30:33 PM »

I don't believe TopoFusion can access a WMS server over https.

There are other facilities in the software that need to be upgraded to https, so I will put it on the list.

Thanks for the post.

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: USGS Imagery

« on: March 07, 2015, 12:11:53 PM »

Great, thanks for the update.

Confirmed back up for me, as well.

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: USGS Imagery

« on: March 03, 2015, 10:36:48 PM »

Confirmed on my end.  Will investigate after my bikepacking trip.  Heading out to the Gila Canyons on the AZT. 

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: USGS Imagery (Aerail)

« on: January 21, 2015, 02:48:52 PM »

Excellent, thanks for the report and patience, Roger.

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: USGS Imagery (Aerail)

« on: January 20, 2015, 03:10:36 PM »

Thanks Roger.  I can confirm I'm not getting any response from the server.

Let's give it a day or so to see if it's just a temporary outage.

Please check back in tomorrow if you think of it.

Thanks!

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Feature Requests / Re: Would like a new X-axis option on profile

« on: January 06, 2015, 10:05:36 AM »

Hi Seebonk,

I hadn't thought of having "point #" be a choice for the x-axis -- that might be an interesting way to view the data or debug it, as you said.

You know about the "info" tool mode that lets you hover over points, right?  It's also a good tool for debugging.

I'll look into adding "point #" as an axis choice.  Thanks for the suggestion!

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: Mapquest Maps: US vs England vs Other programs

« on: December 31, 2014, 12:59:01 PM »

Hey Wayne,

It's the same map source, but the maps in TF are shown in a different projection, thus the horizontal stretching.

Since the majority of map servers are going to the google style tiles, I will likely change the software to operate that way on a base level in the future.

Happy 2015!

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: Support for internal GPS in new Windows 8 devices??

« on: December 26, 2014, 06:54:07 PM »

NMEA should still work.  But I haven't had time to look at the new API, so there is no direct support.