Cartographer: Microsoft Expedia Streets maps

Thanks to Donald McLennan for this section

Microsoft Expedia Streets provides detail maps, travel information and easy-to-use tools help you plan your trips down to the last detail. We have found that the quality of the maps is very compatible with the GPS Pilot software. The following discussion provides the Streets settings and a step-by-step process for extracting the maps from Streets and loading into GPS Pilot using the ‘Cartographer' utility.

From the Streets menu, you have several options to display items on the map.
Select/deselect the various View options for display.

Streets provides a Location Sensor to display the longitude and latitude position on the chart. From the Streets menu, Tools, display the Location Sensor. From the Location Sensor drop down list, select Decimal Degrees.

When displaying the map, the object is to display the desired level of map detail. We've found that the Zoom level magnification display of 2-3 miles provides a good working map, with streets, street names, highways, etc. Lower level of magnification provides a good overview map, but does not provide the street level detail. Higher level of magnification provides too much information and doesn't cover the area.

Position the map. It is now necessary to identify the upper left and lower right longitude and latitude coordinates. To do so, move the cursor to the upper right corner of the map display. The longitude/latitude are displayed by the Location Sensor

Either save these coordinates into a text file map_name.txt, saved in the same directory as the map_name.bmp, or record these figures for entry into Cartographer.

Save the image to a Windows bit map (*.bmp) by copying map to the clipboard. This action is found under the Edit, Copy Map to clipboard menu.
 

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