Topo Canada v2 vs. Ibycus Topo Canada

What kind of error are you getting when you try to unzip the file?

...ken...

Well, right off the top I'll point out that Dale's Ibycus Topos have more up to date roads in my area than Metroguide Canada 5 which is the same data as Topo Canada as I understand it. Garmin's online map viewer seems to confirm this but I have heard that the map viewer isn't always updated right away.

Ibycus Topo also has vegetation cover data and more detailed wetland data (in my area at least) as well. I find both useful on the laptop.

The DEM (digital elevation model) data would be nice if I had a device that would display it but I have a GPS Map 76CSi and I don't believe it will. The Oregon does I understand. Does anyone know if Mobile PC will use DEM data?

Same around here. Not many differences but Ibycus is generally correct when there are differences.

Definitely still the old one. You can spot it quickly if you just look at the bottom of the viewer display for the copyright. The one I just looked at two minutes ago is 1995-2004.

Yep, just zoom out until you're viewing the basemap. The Rockies look really pretty.

...ken...

DEM basemap only in GMPC.

Terry

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What's the latest version of Ibycus Topo Canada and where can I download it?

The latest version is 3.2. You can download it via Bit Torrent (I don't have the URL handy, but if you can't find it, let me know, and I'll dig it up).

Hi Dale,

Thanks for the excellent topo maps and thanks for dropping by.

Newbee, here's a link to the torrent.

http://www.ibycus.com/ibycustopo/Iby...32.iso.torrent

You will need a BitTorrent client to download it. You can get a good one here:

Torrent - a (very) tiny BitTorrent client

If you use utorrent, copy the Ibycus torrent link above, click on FILE and select "Add torrent from URL...". Paste the torrent URL into the window that pops up and click OK. The torrent should start downloading. Be patient. It will take awhile. Depending on the number of systems seeding it at any given time, it could be a day or two.

But it's free and worth the wait.

(I'm seeding again. I see there's lots of demand for it, so I'll leave it run for awhile.)

...ken...

Thanks everyone. I shall download and seed

Hi all, new to the site... wish I had found you sooner.

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EDIT to remove some potentially confusing or misleading information(for someone who might arrive here from a recent search engine crawl)
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If I'm wrong, and it is a real version, then I'll edit this so no one else gets confused like I am.

BM

An iso file is a DVD image. Burn it to a DVD using your favourite iso burning software. Then install from the DVD.

Terry

Ahh, I see now why I was getting a User Agreement for Sonic. My laptop that I've only had a couple weeks was preloaded with Roxio Creator. So when I click on an ISO, the default handler was Roxio Creator, hence the reason it opened.

I'm still confused why I can't open the .iso with 7-Zip though.

EDIT: Ignore this message. It's just wrong. 7-zip is supposed to open ISO files. It does, mostly. But there appear to be some it doesn't like.
...ken...

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An ISO file is a disk image. It is not a compressed file. That's why 7-Zip won't open it. As you guessed, the .iso filetype is associated with your Roxio program so double-clicking the .iso file launches Roxio to burn it to a DVD.

The reason you see something else on Dale's video is because he uses a different burning program. (I know you've also figured that out. That's just for others who may read this thread later.)

...ken...

Thanks for the feedback Ken (and tcassidy). It was earlier in this thread, around post #11 (hehe, I just noticed, that was 2008) , that you and Dale discussed the second option of installing from an ISO, that is, without burning it first.

He suggested that 7zip would extract files from an ISO in that post, and checked his video, he says the same there. Even the 7-zip documentation says it will extract files from an ISO.

Just not having any luck I guess. I'll try daemon tools, and if that don't work to mount the image, I'll be off to find those blank DVDs. (been missing them since the reno last fall )

Ciao for now.

BM

PS, Dale, If you're reading this, Thanks for the work you do, once I'm back at work I'll send something your way.
PPS, I'll edit my earlier post so the search crawlers don't pick up on some wrong info.

You are absolutely right. I had forgotten about that feature of 7-zip because I rarely use it. When I do that with ibycus32.iso, I get the same error you do.

I have a bunch of different ISO files on my computer so I just started going through them one-by-one and trying to open them with 7-zip. I did half a dozen and it was about 50:50. Some open and some make it whine that it's not an archive. I'm not smart enough to be able to figure out the difference between the ones that work and the ones that don't.

I did some digging and the only thing I found was a post in the 7-zip forum on SourceForge where someone pointed out that when trying to open ISO files with 7-zip it has problems with some types of udf files and asking if it could be fixed. There was no response.

...ken...