Toggling Tracks in Mapsource?

[JMartin]

In Mapsource, how do I get a track to no longer display, other than deleting it, once I've selected it to show on the map? I'm sure it's easy, but it's not obvious (at least to me).

Thanks,

Jay

[bitterjoe]

Hey Jay, I would just right-click the track, go to track properties and set the color to transparent. That way you still see a little dotted track too.

[CMWoody]

Click off the Tracks tab, either waypoints, routes, or maps. As long as your in Tracks, any one you select will be highlighted yellow. To toggle tracks, make another yellow...click on it, either from the list of tracks in the tab or on the map with the arrow selection tool. The first one selected should go back to just the dotted line once the second one is selected.

If you want the dotted line to go away, this gets us into another topic entirely concerning how one manages their mapsource files. If you want to delete the track, by all means do though I think you may be asking another question...maybe. Is it that you want to see a route/ waypoint only without the clutter of the dotted lines?

Right click and copy whatever it is out of the tabs you want on its own. All windows rules apply, you can select control to grab several things selectively or shift if you want a list of things...whatever. Open a new file and paste...easy.

In "My Garmin" I keep a file for "GPS dumps" Whenever I read the GPS I save it in this file with a date in the file name or a description of the trip. I also have a file for Waypoints with sub-files for friends n family, KTM dealers, BMW dealers, Mexico, etc... Routes I store in its own lair with subs for Mexico, Western NC, Westfest, whatever...this is a big file. In each sub is a single route or several saved to the same file. I also have a file for maps, additional ones I have available, and downloads.

Keeping organized isn't all that intuitive with mapsource. Took me several years to come up with my system. I started out keeping everything in one page file of mapsource. It got really big and cumbersome to manage. Thinking this may be your problem.

[JMartin]

Thanks for the good tips and info.

Jay

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Originally Posted by JMartin

In Mapsource, how do I get a track to no longer display, other than deleting it, once I've selected it to show on the map? I'm sure it's easy, but it's not obvious (at least to me).

I am assuming that you selected "show on the map" when you saved a track or opened a saved track in your GPS. That check doesn't effect what you see when you upload the tracks to your PC, it only has effect in GPS unit.

One BIG omision in later Mapsource versions is that they deleted that "show on map" check box in the track properties pop up

As stated above, only choice in PS is make track transparent or just copy to another mapsource file and delete from the file you don't want to see it in.