Solid and dash lines in Garmin maps

andyoc

Hi

I am planning some rides in Holland & Germany using garmin connect maps.

Could anyone confirm what the solid and dashed green lines represent - I see three variations:

1 A bright green solid line
2 A darker green solid line
3 A dashed line

Thanks in advance!

dardhal

andyoc wrote: »

Hi

I am planning some rides in Holland & Germany using garmin connect maps.

Could anyone confirm what the solid and dashed green lines represent - I see three variations:

1 A bright green solid line
2 A darker green solid line
3 A dashed line

Thanks in advance!

It all depends on which map are you looking at , from which application device, and which TYP file is enabled for that map. Garmin vector maps are fully customizable regarding appearance, by using "style files" called TYP files. A singletrack could be depicted as a dashed, black line in one TYP file, but in a different one it could depict a 5-pixel wide orange , resembling a typical highway symbol in other maps, or depending on the map target (road users, for example), a singletrack may not appear at all.

Your best bet is to load that Garmin map in any of the usual programs (Garmin's Mapsource/BaseCamp, or the excellent, multiplatform and free QLandkarteGT), and see what every "line" on the map mean.