Is there a manual I didn't find? I think I'm making some basic mistakes. I'm trying to make a topo and boating map of the entire Yukon Territory. I've downloaded about 7 vector files from http://mapservices.gov.yk.ca/GeoYukon/ . Each layer is 200MB to 1.5GB. After downloading the shape file, I unzip it and import it using Layer>Add Layer>Add Vector Layer. I did this for all of the files and then cropped them to the political boundary of the Yukon Territory. At this point, I'm showing the cropped layers (the original layers are still in the layer windows, but not displayed). Everything I want is visible and I'm zoomed out to the full extents of the map. The file must be huge since every click takes a long time to process. I go to Plugins>GarminCustomMap>Create Garmin Custom Map from map canvas. What specifically is a map canvas? I left all of the inputs as the default except the zoom, which I chose to be 12 as that was the maximum zoom for <=100 tiles. The export says it finished successfully with 16 tiles and 48 rows. I ended up with a kmz file that is 881kB. For comparison if I were to buy the Backroads Map Book GPS file it is 1.6GB.
I just installed QGIS 3.6.3 and GarminCustomMaps yesterday.
Any help would be appreciated! Thank you.
Is there a manual I didn't find? I think I'm making some basic mistakes. I'm trying to make a topo and boating map of the entire Yukon Territory. I've downloaded about 7 vector files from http://mapservices.gov.yk.ca/GeoYukon/ . Each layer is 200MB to 1.5GB. After downloading the shape file, I unzip it and import it using Layer>Add Layer>Add Vector Layer. I did this for all of the files and then cropped them to the political boundary of the Yukon Territory. At this point, I'm showing the cropped layers (the original layers are still in the layer windows, but not displayed). Everything I want is visible and I'm zoomed out to the full extents of the map. The file must be huge since every click takes a long time to process. I go to Plugins>GarminCustomMap>Create Garmin Custom Map from map canvas. What specifically is a map canvas? I left all of the inputs as the default except the zoom, which I chose to be 12 as that was the maximum zoom for <=100 tiles. The export says it finished successfully with 16 tiles and 48 rows. I ended up with a kmz file that is 881kB. For comparison if I were to buy the Backroads Map Book GPS file it is 1.6GB.
I just installed QGIS 3.6.3 and GarminCustomMaps yesterday.
Any help would be appreciated! Thank you.