1.	Get the maps of the zone (along with the latitude and longitude of the corners)
	•	There are several sources for maps for any given area. Some are free, like www.topozone.com and Terraserver (see http://mapper.acme.com for a nice front end). Of the commercial products, I like TOPO! from National Geographic best, but Delorme has a good product also.
	•	It is very critical to get the exact latitude and longitude of the top-left and bottom-right corners of the maps. One trick I found is to export maps with lat/long tick marks turned on then trim the map down to the tick marks. (I have a tool available to automatically trim maps down.)
2.	Create the following directories and files
	•	Thule.zone\ - a directory to hold all the zone files
	•	Thule.zone\Maps\ - put the maps into here
	•	Thule.zone\zone.data - initially this can be empty, later you can add overview images, etc.
	•	Thule.zone\node.data - initially this can be empty, it will contain roads, nodes and points of interest data
	•	Thule.zone\Ultima.klr - see below
3.	Create the Ultima region and other regions within the Thule zone
	•	You must decide how to divide up the zone into regions. This is an arbitrary decision balancing larger regions that cover more territory versus smaller regions that load faster.
	•	In our example we need to create a file called Thule.zone\ultima.klr which contains the following (the map numbers are latitude and longitude)
		# KLIMB region data, for more info see # http://purl.oclc.org/keithv/klimb/klimb.html name=Ultima nodes=node.data map=Maps/thule_ultima01.gif:3:40 24 0 82 48 0 40 12 0 82 36 0 map=Maps/thule_ultima02.gif:3:40 24 0 82 36 0 40 12 0 82 24 0 map=Maps/thule_ultima03.gif:3:40 24 0 82 24 0 40 12 0 82 12 0
4.	Enter node, road and points of interest data
	•	At this point you have a working KLIMB zone, but not a very interesting one without any roads on it. Adding in new node and road data is time consuming, but fortunately you can do the task incrementally.
	•	The more information you have about a node (its altitude) or road (distance, climbing in both directions) the better but KLIMB will work fine without it. I tend to rely on USGS topo maps for altitude information and on KLIMB to make a very good distance estimate. The only good way of getting the climbing data is to actually ride the route.
5.	Some other non-essential stuff
	•	Overview maps: one or more maps showing the whole zone (or more)
	•	Advanced region selection: a zone map which allows you to select one or more regions to show.
	•	"Bending" roads: making the roads follow the actual road course.
	•	Points of interest