Roads in GRL3?

[John Hudson]

Maybe I'm way behind the curve on this one, but is there any way to get roads from my GPS combined with the GRL3 storm data?

Every time I've ever used my GPS, all I got was a white marker on the screen for my car's location, but little road/street detail.

Is there any way to get something better (turn-by-turn road data)?


John

 

[david diehl]

try useing GRLevelxstuff.com
You will find several add-ons there, from roads, to placefiles, Even GIS Maps

 

[rdale]

Is there any way to get something better (turn-by-turn road data)?

Yep - in the GRLevelX forums, there's a "placefiles" section. That tells you step-by-step how to install the Tiger road files.

 

[Paul Townsend]

Yep - in the GRLevelX forums, there's a "placefiles" section. That tells you step-by-step how to install the Tiger road files.

Does anyone have a timetable for when the 2007 TIGER files will be made public? They are to be shape files for the first time, so no need in converting file types, and presumably will have many of the counties updated to current road conditions that have not been updated for many a TIGER update in past years.

John, on the owners' forum: www.grlevelx.com there is a thread about adding a roadsigns place file in GR products. Give me about a week, and then I will send Tyler Allison an update to the file that will have roadsigns for ND, SD, MN, WI, NE, KS, IA, IL, OK, and MO.

 

[Jason A.C. Brock]

Tiger files roads

The tiger files to add roads is pretty nbeat. it has EVERY road you could imagine. It doesnt have any type of turn by turn stuff but the roads and there is you zoom in and scroll over them. One setback tho is that ablot of the roads are not even listed on some maps or GPS & are also not all paved. The tiger files take alot of time to load and also space on your PC but I usually load just a few of the major areas I chase or live. If you loaded every county you would need a ton of storage space. Especially loading areas such as Dallas county. I usually load the county I live in and the surrounding counties and any counties ive had road issues while out chasing in the past. I guess you can also always jsut load the counties you feel you may end up in for the night before a chase. I had to reload my grlevel 3 so I also need to reload these tiger files myself.

 

[John Hudson]

Thanks for all your help, guys! I've never fully investigated the shape file feature, so I guess I've been sort of missing out on a lot of detail.

I'll check out the places you suggested, and see what I can find.


John

 

[Greg Neuman]

If you are looking for shapefiles of Canadian roads, you will find this link helpful. You can download data from GeoBase and use the style file from the GRLevelX forum and have it working in a few minutes.

http://www.grlevelx.com/owners/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4002

 

[Paul Townsend]

John, on the owners' forum: www.grlevelx.com there is a thread about adding a roadsigns place file in GR products. Give me about a week, and then I will send Tyler Allison an update to the file that will have roadsigns for ND, SD, MN, WI, NE, KS, IA, IL, OK, and MO.

Well the week is up. Give me about 3 weeks, yet, to have all of the above states up to snuff.

 

[Scott Guidry]

This is also a great resource to download your road shapefiles. You download the entire state at a time, and once downloaded, the state is usually broken up into 4 different areas (northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest). Of course, large states are broken up even further.

http://weather.niu.edu/grlevelx/

 

[Gerard Jebaily]

I do wish the roads file was more detailed at street level and city, and county roads were shown.

 

[Mark Blue]

This is probably understood by most old timers, but once you download the file(s) of the state(s) you want, you then have to go the "GIS" menu in GRLevel3 and then load your shape and style files before the streets and roads actually appear. As previously stated, some states are broken up into several regions (NW, SW, NE, and SE). When changing states or regions don't forget to unload your previous shape file before loading the new one. Just throwing this out there for the newbs.

 

[Tyler_Costantini]

I can't seem to find them anymore but I have county by county shape files for most of the southern plains states. they are MUCH larger then the ones from the NIU link in the order of 600mb - 2gb per state. I will do some more looking to see if I can find a link you can download them..

They seem to have everything that Delorme has in it.. they are from 2004 I think so they may not be upto date.

 

[Scott Roberts]

I have the county-by-county for AR, OK, CO, KS, MO NE, and the Dakotas, and could upload them to a web server if needed. Yes, they are from 2004.

I actually like the regional files better...don't recall a substantial difference in detail between them and the county-by-county, though I carry both on my laptop. The 2006 styles file (I think it's on GRLevelXStuff.com, if not, I can upload it, too) is much better than the default.

 

[Scott Guidry]

You can download Census 2000 shapefile --->HERE.

Just pick your state, then "Line Features-Roads" on the next window, then "Submit Selection", and then choose your counties you're interested in.

 

[Josh Richardson]

Now maybe Im doing something wrong here but doesnt it also need a style file to go along with that so I can import the shapefile into GR? I have the shapefile but it doesnt extract any stylefile to put in there.