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

[Ken Powers]

Marcia said the hiker with the PCT drawn on the base map was Mr Parkay. I got the second hand description of his map. He drew the PCT as a line on the base map and created his own basemap which he could then load back into the GPS. The PCT was just a (red?) line on the map and contained no waypoint information. Lon's approach has the benefit of waypoint information. I have worked on uploading "tracks" or "traces" onto the Garmin 60csx. The problem is the amount of points that must be loaded to describe the curvy trail. It seems to work fine for shorter trails, but 2700 miles just overloads current GPS's.

Ken
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ken Powers 
  To: pct-l at backcountry.net ; 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:49 PM
  Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: [pct-l] Transfering Aerial Photos and Maps to a GPS


  I haven't tried it. Here is a webpage on the subject. http://home.cinci.rr.com/creek/garmin.htm I heard it isn't easy but can be done. Someone on trail last year had added the PCT to the Garmin base map.

  Let me know if you get this to work.

  Ken
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: bighummel at aol.com 
    To: pct-l at backcountry.net 
    Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:44 PM
    Subject: [pct-l] Transfering Aerial Photos and Maps to a GPS


    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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