User Guide

Open Map Border File dialog box.

With the border displayed on the Master Map screen, you're ready to

process it into a map your GPS unit can use. If so, you can jump ahead

to "Creating and Saving a Custom Map," on page 60.

MapCreate can also draw a polygon-shaped border useful for following

an irregularly shaped route, lake or other geographic feature. These

corridor maps are made with the Draw Corridor Map Borders com-

mand, and we tell you how in the next lesson.

Creating Corridor Map Borders

A corridor map lets you twist and turn your borders to enclose irregu-

larly shaped geographic features. Here's how: (Refer as needed to the

"Toolbars" section, beginning on page 43.)

1. Center the Master Map display on the area you want to include in

your map. Click the

CENTER MAP cross-hair button , and then

click the cross-hair mouse pointer on the area you want centered.

2. If needed, click the

ZOOM IN or ZOOM OUT buttons

so you can see the entire area that you want to draw a map border

around.

3. Click the

DRAW CORRIDOR MAP BORDERS button , and

your mouse pointer becomes a pencil

4. Move the mouse pointer to where you want your corridor map to begin.

5. Click and release the left mouse button to set the first anchor point.

(The anchor point is represented by a handle box, which can also be

grabbed later to relocate the border if you wish.)

6. As you move your mouse, you'll see a magenta border box appear.

Move the mouse pointer in a straight line along your corridor's path

until you need to change direction to follow the terrain. Click to set a

second anchor point.