![]() I'll help you threadjack my own thread since my OP questions have basically been answered. With no place to save them they just get erased at the end of the trip. I have been recording track logs as I find the caches. Wonderful places to cache, and would be even more plesant with a map to tell you where the trails were in relationship to the caches. Not to mention the network of fire roads around most every large body of water on the east coast. Has anhone ever thought about collaboration to create trail maps? there are a bunch of mountain bike trails in San Antonio, and Columbia MD has a whole network of paved bike paths. Can you point me in the right direction so I can make my 550 look like y our picture? I would love to have a picture like you showed on your Oregon. Maingray: I am the new owner of a Garmin 550 with base maps.no topo. Some tips on the original creation (of course, once youhave a map file, you can share with others, easy drag and drop onto the unit e.g. LOve the use of the historical map up there! Is there something in the process, like when putting the scanned map image on Google Earth, that exposes it to file sharing in some way?Ī lot of mapping apps now come with a native export to the Colorado/OR/D specifically for this purpose, so really any map / aerial imagery from any source will now work and will likely be geo-referenced. I certainly wouldn't share that map with anyone like with all the Park Service maps in Maingray's first link. ![]() Why should it be a problem for me to scan a map that I have paid for, and put it on my GPS for my own personal use. I will continue to load my tracks to openstreetmap for the purpose of helping create that database of routable streets, bikepaths, and pedestrian/hiking ways.Īfter all that, I'm still a little confused by the copyright issue. kmz maps on the flash drive so that way, if you "brick it", all you have to do is pull the flash drive and restart.Īt this point it seems quite clear that the trails on these raster/kmz maps are not routable unless you do additional tracing, custom mapping or something. That last link had some good advice in particular to my flash drive question. those links, and the links in those links really showed me everything I needed to know.
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