{"id":1513,"date":"2008-04-12T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?page_id=1513"},"modified":"2008-08-11T15:09:41","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T13:09:41","slug":"create-your-own-garmin-vector-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/04\/create-your-own-garmin-vector-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Create your own Garmin vector map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turned out to be a tricky job to move from pixel maps to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mac-im-netz.de\/dateien\/maps.html\">a Garmin vector map<\/a>; I first thought that is <a href=\"http:\/\/home.cinci.rr.com\/creek\/garmin.htm\">impossible<\/a> but here is a way to do that:<br \/>\n1. Find the area of interest with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.active-value.de\/geocoder\/\">Geocoder<\/a><br \/>\n2. Get digital elevation data from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viewfinderpanoramas.org\/dem3.html#alps\">de Ferranti<\/a><br \/>\n3. Import them in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualizationsoftware.com\/3dem.html\">3DEM<\/a>, export as GEO-TIFF, import in <a href=\"http:\/\/people.uleth.ca\/~brad.gom\/dem2topo\/\">DEM2TOPO<\/a> and export in Polish map format.<br \/>\n4. Finalize with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geopainting.com\/en\/\">Mapedit<\/a>. Mapedit will read Polish format, import your already available GPS tracks or positions saved in Oziexplorer. The best Mapedit feature is certainly the Google Earth overlay. Nevertheless map editing remains a time consuming enterprise but may be the only way if there is no other map available. I wish there would be more of these maps like for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourfootprints.de\/gps\/mapsource-island_e.html\">Iceland<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garda-gps.de\/karte_garda.html\">Garda Lessinia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 07.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turned out to be a tricky job to move from pixel maps to a Garmin vector map; I first thought that is impossible but here is a way to do that: 1. Find the area of interest with Geocoder 2. Get digital elevation data from de Ferranti 3. Import them in 3DEM, export as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/04\/create-your-own-garmin-vector-map\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Create your own Garmin vector map<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}