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Marketal
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 06/01/2012 : 22:00:37
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Hi,
I've mastered importing the OS plans from the MM website, and today I was undertaking a forest survey marking out plots on the ground with a Garmin 60CSX. The paper plan I had been supplied with was not to scale so I downloaded the appropriate OS tile, to produce a scaled map (1:10 000). The (getting above myself, here) I thought my client might like to see the plot locations on the new OS map. However try as I might I can import the waypoints from the Garmin and place them on MM, but when I come to do this with the OS tile, I cannot see the waypoints.
Any suggestions?
I've imported from the Garmin as a .GPX file; then in MM: Utilities/GPS Utilities/Import data/GPX. I've saved it as .SHP and .DXF to no avail. |
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Irvine
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07/01/2012 : 11:42:50
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Hi
If you still have the waypoints in the Garmin, plug the Garmin into your PC with the USB cable, switch it on, then open Mapmaker and use
Utilities/GPS utilities/Import Data/Download Waypoints-Landmarks.
Once you have downloaded the file click on "Convert Lat/Long to XY Coordinates" and choose OS Map as the data projection, then save as a MapMaker .dra file
You can then load the OS map and the .dra layers into your project and choose a suitable symbol size for the appropriate style in the .dra layer.
Hope this helps
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mapmaker
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Posted - 07/01/2012 : 12:01:56
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If you have the data in a GPX file that data will be lat/long. So convert that to DRA then use Utilities - Latitude and Longitude utilities - WGS84 lat/long to XY - vector - choose OS Map as the projection - OK - choose your DRA file - Open - name a new DRA file for the projected data - Save.
Then, as Irvine says, you can load this as a layer |
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Marketal
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/01/2012 : 09:42:07
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Bingo!
I followed Irvines method, as I hope to be doing this regularly. Thanks for the tips.
Cheers
Mark
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