The most advanced TYP File Editor

How to make your map clearer & less cluttered

Often , names of cities,towns & villages are obscured by :labels of other points or areas or the fontsize of street names!

Although a TYPWiz 6 cannot change the contents of a map , it can change fontsizes of selected elements and make their labels invisible!

Select Elements using CTRL Click or SHIFT Click

From the main menu Tools,Batch Conversion of Fonts and tick Add Font to All . Select new font and click OK

no-label means invisible.

Before

After

Select Icons & Perform a Task

Select More Than One

Use CTRL or SHFT keys to select

Use ESC key to cancel

Delete selected elements
Give selected elements the same draw order
Give selected elements the same Font Style or Color
Copy selected elements and paste into a different TYP file
much more!

Multiple highway colours

3 Colour Highway

Lines / highways with 3-5 colours

In this example we selected 3 lines
Right Click and Edit
Set one colour to transparent
See final result in our South West 2020 TOPO
In Basecamp/Mapsource search Rawridge

Your questions

Youtube :What are Draworders?

The Mystery of Extra Draworders

How to load a TYP file from Basecamp
How to modify a typ file
How to restore original typfile
How to quickly give all or selected polygons the same draworder
How to quickly give all polygons a unique draworder

Youtube Tutorial

How do I change my contour lines?

Find out what the type number is for contours:

Click on Lines (Top left)
Tick 'type search box' next to Basecamp Icon and Search for Contour:

Create 3 contour lines, 0x20,0x21 and 0x22

Search For TYPE Number

What else can I search for?

Click on Lines (Top Left)
Try Power for powerlines
Click on Polygons
Try Park
etc

How can I change my map's TYP file?

How can I quickly add an extra language?

Go Tools ,TYP files from Basecamp/Mapsource
Select your map and click 'OPEN TYP'
Make changes then Tools,TYP files from Basecamp/Mapsource
Click the 'Replace ... TYP' button and reload Basecamp/Mapsource

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How can I make my active routing lines
bigger or change their colours?

How can I make my NUVI/ZUMO icons bigger or change their colours?

Active Routing

Extra POIS

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How can I make my TOPO active routing lines stand out?

How can I convert any map to say black and white and highlight the lines/pois I really need?

Convert your map to shades of grey or any palette then add colour to only what you want !

Image shows part of a new look TOPO France 4 with only cycling routes highlighted in blue.

How can I copy or delete multiple icons?

Copy Multiple Icons

Paste Selection

Use Shift or CTRL Click to select icons
Right Click and select Copy or Delete

Paste selection into a new TYP file

MY Map! How Can I change my existing map and only show what I want?

There has been a big trend towards changing the colours of Garmin's Navigator maps using our Map Theme Editor.
We therefore took the TYP file of a popular Openfietsmap map and quickly converted it to Black & White using 'Colour,Convert to Black & White'
We then gave cycle paths , cycle routes and a few POIs a red colour .

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Create Own Map

How can I optimise icons for my Forerunner, Fenix , Quatix, D2 & other devices with limited Colour Palettes?

How can I create a TYP file from my mkgmap style files?

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Can I change the Hill Shading (DEM) effect ?

How can I quickly import elements defined by Mapuploader as 'not in TYP'

Unfortunately, Garmin has not provided a way for TYP files to change the colour of any hill shading. It has to be black!

Save missing polygons,lines or points as twzx and import into TYPWiz 6.

Garmin Gmapsupps

How to avoid gmapsupp conflicts

How to use 'Recent Finds' with out the dreaded 'This route does not match the available maps'

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NEW Convert Garmin Themes to TYP files
- Garmin themes , used by Car / Bike Sat Navs , can now be converted to a TYP file
- Go File,Open TXT/KMTF
- Select KMTF and import your KMTF file
- Save as TYP and find your City Navigator Map,ie City Navigator Europe NTU 2019.2
  (Garmin Express allows you to download these maps onto your PC)
- Go Tools,Add & Replace Basecamp/Mapsource TYP file, select your map and click 'Add or Replace TYP'
- Open Basecamp / Mapsource and locate your City Navigator Map (You may have to press CTRL G twice)
- There is no one colour for Roundabouts
- City Navigator maps have all draworders set to zero.
- Maps contain more detail than shown on a Sat Nav ie hospitals and schools have the same colour as industrial areas!
Netherlands Theme

Germany Theme

Italy Theme

NEW Convert TYP to KMTF

Applies to full version only

1) Open TYP file 2) Go File,Save As Theme (KMTF)

TYPWiz 6 includes the latest Theme Editor

Mapnik Theme

Topo Theme

You can turn any TYP file containing polygons & lines in to a kmtf file for Nuvis / Zumos

Screen shots from a Nuvi 2699

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TYPWiz6 & Androids

1) Extract TYP file from a gmapsupp using TYPWiz 6
--> Tools,Extract TYP file from gmapsupp

2) Edit your TYP file and recompile gmapsupp :
--> Tools, Add/Replace Gmapsupp TYP file

3) Download version 7.4.22 or higher from Oruxmaps.com, not the version from Google Store

4) Copy gmapsupp into

/oruxmaps/mapfiles

5) Select Offline maps

6) Currently, Oruxmaps does not parse no_label

Orux Screenshot