Cartographer: Maps from Autoroute

Thanks to Guy Jadot for this section

Microsoft Autoroute 2003 provides European detail maps, travel information from Ireland to the Urals and from Norway to Spain.

To convert these maps through Cartographer, follow these steps:

• Open Microsoft Autoroute 2003, and select the desired map area with the mouse.
• Click on the Tool item or Outils in French. Then select the Geographical coordinates or Coordonnées géographiques.
• With the arrow, select the coordinates of the top left corner (I,g), and select the coordinates of the bottom right corner (I', g').
• Save as a web page, in a directory previously created PalmMaps for instance
• Close Microsoft Autoroute 2003
   
• Then Open GPS Pilot Cartographer, select the Add button.
• Open the PalmMaps directory, and select the sub directory of the saved web page.
• Select *.gif type files
• Click on the image_map name
• Choose color depth of the map, compress and select Ok.
• Enter maps coordinates (I,g and I',g')
• Save the active maps database with a new name (save as...)
• Close Cartographer
   
• Start the Palm desktop tool, and install, add the pdb file just created.
• Then hotsync your Palm.
   

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