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Managing Maps: display, central data store and layers

TrailRunner loads background maps and places them into a central store. But if you manually add more maps, they are displayed on top of these.

To organize the maps you've added manually TrailRunner helps you with two features: the central data store and layers.

Central Data Store

You can move map tiles to the central data store. All documents referencing a geographic area will automatically display background maps from the central store. Using the central store will massively reduce the file size of your documents because the maps are not stored inside the document anymore. Use File > Consolidate > File selected Bitmap centrally / locally to move or remove a selected map tile to or from the store.

Layers

Under Document settings the section Map display shows a layer control. The first three layers contain maps stored in the central data store. The last layer named Document contains maps stored in the document itself.


When you load maps from the internet using the build in client, TrailRunner places the maps into layers by quality of the map source. The best quality is Hiking map. This is important because better quality maps will be displayed atop of other lower quality layers.

When you import or paste maps into a document the maps will be placed into the layer named Document. Maps stored in the document are not stored centrally.

Consolidate map tiles

If you have many small and overlapping map tiles, you can consolidate them to greater tiles and additionally move them to the central data store.

Use File > Consolidate > Consolidate Image Bitmaps to apply this process to all map tiles in any unlocked layers.

Mastering the Central Data store

With all the above, please keep the following in mind:

What you should know next

Aligning map tiles
if you have scanned several map tiles, you can align and adjust the map tiles using the grid toolset and the brightness slider.

Files and Backup
TrailRunner not only stores information in your document but also in files located in your user directory. For optimal happiness, regularly backup these files.

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