[pct-l] Transfering Aerial Photos and Maps to a GPS

[Lon Cooper]

Strider,

I don't think that can easily be done at least not in any way that is
officially supported by Garmin.

What I did last year was convert tracks of the PCT into waypoints
every half mile along the trail. This can be done with the filter
command in Garmin Mapsource and GPS Bable.  I then loaded the
waypoints into my 60CSx as custom POI's. You can load essentially an
unlimited number of POI's into the 60Csx so you are not limited to
1,000 as you are with waypoints. This worked very well for me. Using
this approach you can tell at a  glance where you are on the trail. It
has the added benefit of allowing you to easily judge distance. If you
want to hike a 20 miles, you just hike 40 half miles. Another benefit,
is that assuming your tracks are accurate your half mile POIs will be
accurate too. It is not easy to find maps that accurately show the
location of the PCT especially any of the digital mapping products I
have looked at.

I will be interested in hearing what you work out.

-Lon
AKA Halfmile



On Jan 30, 2008 2:44 PM,  <bighummel at aol.com> wrote:
> Okay, it is time to go to the well of knowledge.  Can anyone help me find a
> way to transfer aerial photos (I have tiff and jpegs) and topos of an area
> (ones I have purchased from a vendor and are in dbf, dwg, sbx and shp files)
> into a Garmin 60CSx?  I just bought this and have been trying to find
> software that will enable me to do this.  I'm not interested in just
> transferring waypoints and tracks.  This is a very cool GPS and really my
> first modern one.  It is easy to use, small, comes with a belt clip, color
> screen, etc.
>
>  Thanks to all of you experts in advance.
>
>  Greg "Strider" Hummel
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