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Beta Testing / Unable to connect to Magellan in 2.64

« on: July 16, 2005, 08:08:20 AM »

Hey folks,
Okay trying the Beta 2.64 in hopes of solving the *poof* problem.

Installed and all seemed to be working fine and I was able to download from my Garmin receiver. But then I switched to my Magellan, and I can't seem to connect.

Tried multiple baud rates. I did get a momentary response at 4800 baud, the map re-centered on the starting point of the current track, but then right back to  error window.

Tried with NMEA on and off, and all 3 versions, no joy.

Tried live tracking, no joy.

Did verify cable was good, port setting was correct and receiver wasn't damaged by using another program (MapSend Topo), and all worked beautiful.

Suggs?

Thanks,
TC

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Archived Support / It just goes bye-bye

« on: June 10, 2005, 11:19:19 PM »

Scott, Alan, and the rest of the gang....

Okay. I'm thinking Larry's post is either different, or much more involved then my non PA mind can handle.

I can play back tracks fine if I disable tile downloading. But I turn it on... and *poof's* start happening at random. They do seem to happen in patterns. One day, I can't play back a track for more then a few minutes without a blow-out. So I finally give up. next day, I play it back and download all the tiles just beautifully.

So with my limited knowledge of code (as I'm a sys-admin), I'm assuming it has to be something in the download. Something is timing out badly.

Here is a proposal. I can send you some tracks of mine that I've had trouble playing. Maybe when you play them back it'll recreate the problem. Thus narrowing it down to the data of the tilesets I'm downloading or the servers database of them.

Or.... if the problem is in my connection or hardware (what??? a sys-admin problem, never..)

Why not custom compile a debug version of TF. Insert a loop that writes out a log of each and every time a tile is requested, the ack's received, and any other data necessary. Yeah, It'll slow me down, but in the interest of solving this problem, I'm game.

On a similar note, I recently played back a track that covered old data I know I already downloaded. But... it re-downloaded the data again and constantly crashed. I was using the .25m urban tileset.

So did it really need to get the data again? Was it redundant? How are you checking for old/outdated tilesets? Was it crashing for no reason? In my maps directory I have a 640m file that was map1 and should have already contained the tiles of the urban data for that area. But now it was making a maps2 file and re-downloading the data. Is that within defined parameters?

TC

PS If you want to contact direct, get more info and take this post momentarily offline, let me know at tc.carter at charter.net

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Archived Support / It just goes bye-bye

« on: June 10, 2005, 10:49:44 PM »

I've recently had some 'poofing' for no apparent reason - - until I remembered that I had gradually been increasing the cashe settings, and the memory use settings. I set all of these way back and the poofing stopped. Then I started increasing them again without problems until...

I increased my RAM from .75 gb to 1.5 gb. Since TopoFusion uses a percentage of RAM to set the memory use values, these numbers increased a lot. Apparently something (XP SP2 or who knows what) could not use all that dedicated RAM, and I got a poof every time I tried to run TopoFusion. I backed the setttings down, and everything is fine again.

By the way Krein, it would be great to know more about the end effect of these settings? For example, for normal use, is their an upper limit beyond which you won't see any difference. Say on the 3D settings. At least that way I could crank up only the settings that really make a difference.

Larry

reported in another thread.
TC

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Archived - Feedback and Comments / Mapsource(s)???

« on: June 10, 2005, 10:48:11 PM »

Larry,
thanks for the input.

But sionce you are really replying to another post located elsewhere, I hope you don't mind if I copy and paste the info to that section.

This was a thread of mapsource data origination.

BTW... I did head out to the USGS original site. They do not have color photo of Rock Island. So from best I could tell, TerraServer is as up-to-date as USGS claims to be. Google is getting maps from a multitude of sources.

TC

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Archived - Feedback and Comments / Mapsource(s)???

« on: June 06, 2005, 11:13:19 PM »

Hey folks,
Okay, i don;t want to whine. I love the program and use it often, I just wish we could fix that litttle *poof* problem where the program exits.

But I have a question.... and you may or may not have the answer.

After hearing so many things about this google map I gave it a quick look. The urban photos of the hometown (San Louie, Missery) are the same on goolge as the USGS/Terra-server .25m urban. But then I scrolled up to where a buddy lives in Rock Island, Illanoy, and found that google has color urban photos.

Doing some digging, I found a reference of where his company recently built a new office and road leading to it. The terra-server has nothing of the new road on the urban or aerial photos, but does show it on the landsat. Google has it as urban color.

Is gooogle signing with a multi-pickle of suppliers, or is terra-server not keeping up with USGS?

Again, if you have any ideas, I'd be curious to hear, but otherwise, I love the program, have shown it to several folks that have purchased... and we all are very happy.

Keep up the good work....
Thanks,
TC

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Archived Support / Compliment & a question

« on: June 03, 2005, 04:27:01 PM »

Quote (tymbee @ June 02 2005,8:11)

The colored elevation is indeed cool when viewing aerial tracks. While it's easy to figure out, I haven't see an actual legend that shows which color corresponds to what altitude range?

Check under the [Window] drop-down.

Should see scale, and when you click on it, you should see a "___" (fill in the blank).

TC

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Archived Support / Compliment & a question

« on: June 02, 2005, 10:23:47 AM »

If the gps gets confused (foliage causing blackouts or tall bulidings causing blackouts and ghost signals) you could end up with errant track points. Deleting and moving the track points back into reality lets ya keep an accurate track of the track.

Now if your conversations or plans contain things like ILS or VFR, instead of your steed following the dirt path in front of you... it might not have such a problem.

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Archived Support / Change wpts to compass degrees

« on: May 24, 2005, 06:47:58 AM »

Ray,
Would it be easier to write a script that would let you input a starting lat/long, then input a heading and distance, and get the next lat/long.

Actually, I bet if you dig on the net, you could probably find one already wrote. Sounds like something that someone would have wrote into an excel macro.

Probably some orienteering groups would likely be using one.

Sorry, not trying to talk the TF folks out of adding it, just throwing out some thoughts.

TC

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Archived Support / It just goes bye-bye

« on: May 24, 2005, 06:38:04 AM »

Bob,
Take a look at the topofusion log and see if you get an error message after a crash. You have to look before you start back up, as it re-writes with each initalization.

Log is in the primary topofusion directory... ie
\Program Files\TopoFusion\TopoFusion.log

Just use notepad to open it.
TC

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Archived Support / Change wpts to compass degrees

« on: May 23, 2005, 08:14:15 AM »

Ray,
I don't know aout the others.. but I'm confused.

Waypoints are a plotted location, static, non-moving.
Compass degrees are a heading, or direction of movement.

So taking your question for what I interpert to be face value, you can't. Apples/oranges.

Clarify? or am I being clear as Mississippi mud?

TC

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Archived Support / Profile of a track

« on: May 16, 2005, 04:30:48 PM »

Never mind.

R_T_F_M
Climbing analysis.
Doh!

Okay, but the fly through or playback (following) in 3-d mode?

Anyone? Anyone?

TC

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Archived Support / Profile of a track

« on: May 16, 2005, 02:55:14 PM »

Hey,
maybe it's there and I just don't see it.

Is there a way to see a profile of a drawn track?

Thinking of doing some longer overnight rides, but I want to see what I'm in for before planning my miles per day and where I'll be looking ot sleep.

I did a 3-d view, then manually did a fly-over (wich would be cool for a future plug-in (hint, hint), and got some idea of what I was in for.

ANy other suggs or ways to accomplish the above?

Thanks,
TC

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Archived Support / It just goes bye-bye

« on: May 08, 2005, 08:35:09 AM »

Ooopps, might of spoken too soon.

Aftre successfully playing back the track, I was looking to plan a route for todays ride.

So I zoomed out to 1m urban, and was panning,. not being too aggresive. I would drag 1 screen, let the tiles fill, then drag again, etc...

Aftre about 3rd drag, *POOF*

Same thing in log...
Successfully Created Surfaces
CopyJpegToSurface: Error reading JPEG image

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Archived Support / It just goes bye-bye

« on: May 08, 2005, 08:25:28 AM »

Alan,
I assume you mean turn off tile downloading?

Well if not, guess what, that fixed it. Well, not really fixed, but prevented crashes.

I don't even need to aggressively scroll to get a crash. I was playing back a track at on 3.75x and it would crash quite easily, and frequently.
Turn off downloading, and the whole track could play nice and easy. I tried turning on dowloading part way through playback, and *POOF*

But now for the fun part... yesterday I couldn't play back the track for more then a few minutes without a blow-up, today, the whole thing played back and all tiles downloaded.

Could it be some slow or errant connection to/with TerraServer?

TC

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Archived Support / Access Violation-Make Network

« on: May 07, 2005, 05:21:09 PM »

Try changing the order of them (segments) in the list.

Worked for me.... least, this time.

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Archived Support / It just goes bye-bye

« on: May 03, 2005, 07:40:57 AM »

Not a thing.....

Dang it!

TC

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Archived Support / Access Violation - while drawing track

« on: May 03, 2005, 07:12:36 AM »

Yo,
I hate to sound like a whiner, espically on such a cool and useful program.

But.... I won't whine just report.

While drawing a track to check distance for an upcoming ride, I got the access violation. Not one, but five. Then a message popped up telling me to contact support. (I'm assuming that part wasn't bad, but working as programmed.)

So there it is.
Just the facts.

TC

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Archived Support / It just goes bye-bye

« on: May 02, 2005, 12:52:54 PM »

Okay...

Now it's not even when scrolling. All maptiles were drawn on-screen (or so I think)...

I was trying to draw a track, had started, was about half drawn, and *POOF*

TC

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Archived Support / Access Violation-Make Network

« on: May 02, 2005, 08:41:36 AM »

I also got the violation... but I didn't restart winders, just TF.

Ran the same network trails again, and also got it.

I tried moving the top listed track down the list (remove & re-add), it was actually right in the middle of the network, and re-ran and it worked.

I looked at the TF log, and it shows a DirectX error right after catching the violation.. speciafically:

DirectX Error [2405]: Access to this surface is being refused because the surface is already locked by another thread.

I saved the log if anyone wants it?

TC

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Archived Support / It just goes bye-bye

« on: April 21, 2005, 01:28:13 PM »

Don't even need to be aggresively panning.

I can have it dissappear while I'm sitting waiting for the tiles to fill in. I switch from topo64 to combo8 and while waiting *POOF*

Maybe this will help debug... aftre it blows away, all the data of where I just panned too will be gone also. And any tiles it downloaded seem to dissappear and have to be refreshed.

TC

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Archived Support / It just goes bye-bye

« on: April 19, 2005, 10:36:19 AM »

Change of resolution had no effect.

TC

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Archived - Feedback and Comments / Request, dual (or more) gps inputs

« on: April 15, 2005, 08:43:09 AM »

Hey folks,
Not sure how difficult it would be to implememnt, or if even anyone else wants it.

I use different GPS units depending on where I'm going and what I be doing. When I get back to home base and download to Topo, I have to go to preferences, set settings, got to GPS transfer. Go back to preferences, change, go back to download, etc...

How about under GPS settings, the user could create GPS profiles, and each profile would hold com port, manufacturer, speed, etc.

Then when clicking transfer, if the user only had 1 GPS profile, it would auto-connect, if multi profiled, a menu would pop after transfer asking of wich GPS to transfer from, or maybe just make the tranfer a variable name and have multiple fill-ins or a slide-out menu of the available profiles.

Just a request...
Thanks,

BTW... keep up the good work. Love the program.

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Archived Support / It just goes bye-bye

« on: April 14, 2005, 02:58:53 PM »

Hi all,

I just rebuilt the pc.... downloaded and installed the 2.5 version of Topo.

I fire up the program and use it for a few minutes, when, *POOF*, it just disappears. No error messages, no MS debug info, just goes away.

First time, I was looking for my shared directory to save the track I just downloaded. Second time, I was in process fo downloading, third time, I had downloaded and saved, was scrolling around in aerial view of latest track plot.

Fourth time, I panned around a bunch in 4m topo view, no problem, switched to 4m aerial, again no problem, 4 m urban, eventually, *POOF*.

Suggs?

OS,  XP pro.

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Archived Support / Correct time from GPS track

« on: November 22, 2004, 01:05:39 PM »

I was looking at this way too closely.

Forget all the high-tech stuff, just fix it like in the old days of Win 3.1, 'format c: /u /s'

Works just beautiful... now

Moth in the machine?

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Archived Support / Correct time from GPS track

« on: November 05, 2004, 12:22:58 PM »

Anyother freeware utils out there that I can pull the raw data from both units... or just the Mag.
TC

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Archived Support / Correct time from GPS track

« on: November 05, 2004, 12:38:31 AM »

Don't you justlove it when you can answer your own questions... It's when the conversation starts making sense I get scared.

Used Trackdown to snag a recent run. It does record the raw time seperate from 'corrected' time.

Sure enough, time is 1 hour different from what i get in the Topofusion GPX file.

Cut/Paste from the two below...
 <urlname>TopoFusion Home Page</urlname>
  <trkseg>
    <trkpt lat="38.773800" lon="-90.484100">
      <ele>144.000000</ele>
      <time>2004-10-31T19:43:49Z</time>

RAW PT   pt. #   rawlat   rawlon   rawtime
$PMGNTRK,3846.428,N,09029.046,W,00144,M,204349.77,A*6C   1   38.7738   90.4841   204349.77

Okay, a little hard to read without Excel formatting, but the 204349.77 is the time part.

Does this turn any gears?

TC

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Archived Support / Correct time from GPS track

« on: November 05, 2004, 12:13:47 AM »

I have tired other programs. One is trackdown, a MS Excel utility. Each time you download, you set your timezone, and, no problem. I have Mapsend Streets, and MapSend topo. Topo reads the time data, but it dosen't try to correct from UTC. You just adjust the first trackpoint, and it correspondingly updates the subsequent ones. Map streets just download track position, no time/speed data.

But on that note... a little brainstorming here, how does Topofusion know my local TZ? Is it in the output stream of the GPS? I glanced at the GPX file saved from Topofusion and didn't see anything that stood out as being the offset.... course this still dosen't explain why the Z time recordings are off in the Magellan GPX file as opposed to the Garmin file.

Firmware is v4 on my Mag map330. I think I might be able to get ahold of another 330 that has an older firmware. Will try.

Are there any utilites that I can use (or just something like hyperterm) that I can view the tracks raw from the GPS?

TC

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Archived Support / Correct time from GPS track

« on: November 03, 2004, 02:23:50 PM »

Hello,
I dug through the other lists, but couldn't see this addressed anywhere.

I have a Magellan and a Garmin GPS. I take them both with me on the ride and then dowload them when I'm back. I try to do a simultaneous playback of the tracks (for accuracy comparisions) but the time points from my Magellan are an hour off (later).

I thought maybe it was just a little bug with daylight savings, but now with that gone... I still have the problem.

Is there a menu setting I'm missing somewhere that I need to switch when I switch units? I set the ones under the GPS setting in preferences, any others?

TC