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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
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 Posted - 07 sept. 2005 : 12:15:04
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Frosty Vibe I'm afraid I know of no way how to change the behaviour of Guidance Screen (I personally don't even use that feature. I set Guidance Screen to "Manual" in Display Options, even though I think it is a useful feature)
krantzima yes, we do indeed have at least a little bit of control over zoom levels thanks to theme.ini:
Customization of Zoom Levels
If you wish to experiment with increasing the maximum zoom level, then look at the following code.
You could enter this code to your theme.ini file (either both, FZL and MZL, or at least one, depending on which distance units you prefer to use).
; feet zoom levels
FZL=100 200 500 1000 2500 5280 10560 26400 52800 132000 264000
; meter zoom levels
MZL=25 50 100 300 1000 2000 5000 10000 20000 40000 80000
You may modify any of the values, but for illustration let’s just look at modifying the highest altitude zoom level. If you enter the above code to your laptop theme.ini, you should notice no change in your zoom levels because the above values represent the current default zoom levels in iGuidance 2.1.x. But if you change the number 80000 meters to 160000 meters your maximum zoom level (after restarting iGuidance) will suddenly change from 80 km to 160 km.
The same will be achieved (if you use feet instead of meters) when you replace 264000 feet with 528000 feet. The new maximum zoom level will be 100 miles (as opposed to just 50 miles).
At higher altitude zoom levels you may experience slower response from iGuidance however, so if you want to do this may just depend on your tolerance level. ;-)
Modifying zoom levels would be more practical if we could increase the NUMBER of zoom levels. Theme.ini does have code that appears to be designed for that purpose:
; active zoom level count
AZLC=11
But if I change the value 11 to 12 for example, my iGuidance will eventually crash when changing zoom. And I did try to play with it already once or twice. There may be a way to do this, but I just don’t know how at this point.
And just the obvious: if you want to see a part of route not displayd on your screen, you may always very easily just pan (move) the map by pressing down the left mouse button, and while holding the button down move the mouse in the direction where you want the map to move. On the PDA you may achieve the equivalent with your stylus.
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krantzima
USA
15 Posts |
Posted - 07 sept. 2005 : 17:45:23
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| I was able to successfully change the bitmaps for the arrows. I have a new question. The map zooms out only to a max scale of 50mi in my laptop and 10mi on my pda. How can I make iGuidance to show me a larger scale, for instance if I travel from Houston to Chicago, I want to see the route in one screen. Is this possible. Please let me know.Thnx |
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krantzima
USA
15 Posts |
Posted - 07 sept. 2005 : 17:57:22
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Thanks a bunch Marvin. You are really helping me out to customize iN to my liking. I never thought all these things can be done. Im enjoying it.
Can the Major Highway names and major City Names still be made visible at these zoom levels? Its not really useful to just see a bunch of lines connecting unknown points.
Also, correct me if Im wrong. I think iN doesnt have an option where you can set a starting point other than the current location. Or does it?
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6899 Posts |
Posted - 07 sept. 2005 : 22:52:09
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1. The above step-by-step instructions on modifying zoom levels don't seem to work well in the newest iGuidance 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 versions. It did work with older versions however, but I cannot tell exactly which version I tried it on successfully in the past. We recently moved to a new house and in the process I threw out a lot of old CD's which I though I would never need ;-) Now I'm sorry I cannot take a nice screenshot of iGuidance in an extremely high altitude zoom level ;-)
2. If you do have an older version of iGuidance and if this works for you, you likely could achieve the same on your PDA. But of course on a PDA there will be a different practical zoom level limit because of lower processing power of today’s' PDA's.
3. I'm not sure about the city names...
4. To choose a starting point (other than your GPS position) go to the menu and locate an address/POI/whatever, and then instead of selecting "Navigate" hit the "Map" button. And you are done with selecting your start point ;-) Next you will likely want to select a destination, but that you already know hjow to do. Just remember you have to select Start first and Destination second.
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krantzima
USA
15 Posts |
Posted - 07 sept. 2005 : 22:52:47
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| Cool, thanks!!! Is there anyway I can get iN to say the street names like "in 500 feet turn right on Main Street" instead of "in 500 feet turn right"? and say "next" when you approach the street you need to turn on. That way I can keep my eyes on the road instead of having to try and read the street names on the pda to figure out which street it actually is. |
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6899 Posts |
Posted - 07 sept. 2005 : 23:00:00
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No, but I'm actually glad iGuidance keeps instruction very short. I personally would consider the reading of street names by a navigation product quite distracting. I personally don't read street names on street corners. That is sometimes quite hard to do especially if visibility is worsened by weather conditions, darkness, street name sign missing on the corner, etc.
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krantzima
USA
15 Posts |
Posted - 08 sept. 2005 : 06:45:08
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| I downloaded the kilmist reg editor and was missing with it. I added the recalc value. Does anyone know what the other settings in the registry for iG do? |
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6899 Posts |
Posted - 08 sept. 2005 : 14:19:31
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The "Recalc" registry change only helps if you have iGuidance version 2.1.1. It has no effect on other versions. It will however very likely also work in a revised edition of 2.1.2 when it is released for download at www.inavcorp.com
The other values which you see in registry are there so iGuidance remembers your preferences.
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krantzima
USA
15 Posts |
Posted - 09 sept. 2005 : 01:36:04
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| The major highway/interstate highway numbers disappear at a zoom level higher than 10 miles. Is it possible to display the these at zoom levels 25 miles and 50 miles? |
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6899 Posts |
Posted - 09 sept. 2005 : 10:55:16
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See more cities
; named place population display threshold @ zoom level
NPT=0 0 0 0 0 5000 15000 40000 75000 150000 300000
This code, when added to theme.ini, will let you control when you see names of towns (but I'm afraid there may not be an equivalent code that would let you do the same with road names).
To illustrate how this works I replaced the last number 300000 with 5000. This tells iGuidance to display at that last zoom level all towns with population above 5000 (instead of the default population of 300000 for that particular zoom level)
Before and after screenshots:
; named place population display threshold @ zoom level
NPT=0 0 0 0 0 5000 15000 40000 75000 150000 300000
; named place population display threshold @ zoom level
NPT=0 0 0 0 0 5000 15000 40000 75000 150000 5000
If you like that you could do the same for each zoom level. Then the code would look like this:
; named place population display threshold @ zoom level
NPT=5000 5000 5000 5000 5000 5000 5000 5000 5000 5000 5000
Or you could go to the extreme and ask iGuidance to display all towns regardless of their population. The following code will do that:
; named place population display threshold @ zoom level
NPT=0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
P.S. Like with any other THEME.INI change, something that works in one iGuidance version may not necessarily work in another version. Also it’s good to keep in mind that performance may suffer when some of these changes are applied, because iGuidance may now require more system resources. Something that may be nice to do on a faster PDA or laptop, may just be impractical on a slower machine.
Marvin Hlavac - Toronto, Canada |
Edited by - Marvin Hlavac on 09 sept. 2005 23:20:55 |
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Rxman
USA
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Posted - 09 sept. 2005 : 19:53:05
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| I have received 2.1.2 DVD and recalc fix in registry on Pocketpc seems to work fine. |
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6899 Posts |
Posted - 09 sept. 2005 : 23:27:02
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Hi Rxman. Welcome to GpsPasSion Forums and thanks for letting us know the new revision of 2.1.2 is out! The functionality has been brought back thanks to iNav Corporation requesting it from Netropa/Intellinav.
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krantzima
USA
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Posted - 09 sept. 2005 : 23:37:29
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| Thanks Marvin, It sure works. But something strange happened. The city names are displayed only in the bottom part of the map at the higest zoom level. The upper part of the map has no city names. I really wish there was a way to display the names of interstate #s and state highway #s along with the major cities. I am sure you will find a way out ;) |
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6899 Posts |
Posted - 09 sept. 2005 : 23:44:00
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That is odd. Here it works just fine, but your description of the problem reminds me of something that I experienced with iGuidance once (and only once) several months ago. I could only see street names in the lower 1/3 of my screen. Restarting iGuidance fixed that and I have never experienced ever again.
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krantzima
USA
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Posted - 10 sept. 2005 : 01:04:03
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| Marvin, I know you like your lines thinner. I want to make the Interstate highways thicker on my map. How do I do it? What are the parameters that control the thickness of various roads? |
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