4. You may also click/tap on File > Load > Load Maps to select a particular map to load. (Useful for loading country basemaps and to manually load any regular maps). This method is typically used only to load maps outside of the United States.
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Draw a box on the map to perform many functions (PC)
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5. Alternatively, if you wish to load a large area at one time, select File > Load > Load in View. From the Load in View, you may choose to load Street Maps,Highway Only, Weather Maps, Topographic, and/or Aerial.
The following is a brief description of each type of maps.
Street Maps will load the detailed maps of all towns and cities in the center of your screen.
Highway Only will load only the highway maps for the states in the center of your screen.
Weather Maps will load detailed information about the weather based upon the National Doppler Radar Service Image. Note: Must have purchase Add-On in order to use.
Traffic Maps will load information about traffic accidents and road construction sites. Note: Must have purchase Add-On in order to use.
Topographic will load a detailed map regarding the elevation, buildings, forests, and streams. For the description of the symbols on Topographic maps, please click here Topographic symbols. Note: Must have purchase Add-On in order to use.
Aerial will load a detailed map of the area's terrain as it exist in nature. Note: Must have purchase Add-On in order to use.
On your laptop/desktop, draw a diagnonal line that will procduce a box around the area that you wish to load the maps by using the left mouse button or stylus. Once the box is drawn, see the table below for the functions that you can performed.
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Left-click / Tap
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Right-click / Tap
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Inside Box
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Zoom into box area
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Load maps in box
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Outside Box
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Zoom out of box area
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Unload maps in box
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During install, maps are copied to the hard drive but still need to be loaded into the TeleType GPS software as described above so you can view them.
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To accommodate the limited memory on PDA devices, maps are only installed to the desktop computer. They then have to be exported to the PDA and loaded into the software.
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If maps are being loaded from a storage card, that storage card must remain in the PDA for the program to operate properly.
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The basemap for a country will have to be loaded manually by going to File > Load > Load Maps once it has been exported to the PDA.
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Weather, Traffic, and Temporary Flight Restriction Maps are paid subscriptions and required passwords for access. These maps are add-ons. Also must have Internet connection for Weather, Traffic, TFR, Topographic, and Aerial Maps.
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See Also:
Exporting Maps
Unloading Maps