Boy where is everyone on a saturday night...Its was nice out today tobad I had to work tommarrow is suppose to be even better tobad i have to work.....Hope everyone that is off enjoys the nice weather,,, Suppose to turn nasty next week I heard highs in the 20'S burrrrrrrrrrr figures thats my weekend off... hahaha

 

GPS TIME....Well okay maybe

I think it was Spudss who was pointing out the coolness of maprring GPS units. I have a question, where do you get the maps? I see postings on here for people who want to upload/download maps & coordintes to others. I know that they come defualt with major raod and city maps already pre-loaded. But can you puchase/download additional maps like say Grand Cayon or other "rural" places. If there is a pre-existing map of aan area I don't really see the need for a GPS. Anyway, I am thinking about purchasing a GPS unit...anyone have any suggestions on particular models. Color is not important to me.

Bob

 

Bob, The companies who make the units also make the software with the maps. I have a Magellan Sportrak Pro, and I bought a map with it. I bought a topographical map of the United States with mine, and put it on my computer. You can then hook your GPS to your computer (optional cable required) and download portions of the map to your GPS. For example, if you're going riding at Little Sahara, you would download that area of the map onto your GPS. As you ride your GPS will automatically save your tracks in its memory. When you return home, hook your GPS back up to the computer and download the tracks from the GPS to the computer. You can then label, edit, or print your maps. If you'll go to my pics, you'll see a map that I printed off of my computer. The yellow lines are all of my tracks from a riding trip, all the rest is what the map looks like straight off the disk.
I'll post some links to some GPS info for you later, I've got to find them again.

Mike

 

Bob, Check out these two websites for GPS info and pricing.
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Mike

 

Thanks Mike, I will check those links out.

I keep putting off the buy thinking the pirces will continue to drop.

Bob

 

Bob, I bought mine from the GPS store (the link I sent). If you search around you can find a package deal. They had a deal going where if you buy the GPS and a map disk at the same time, you get a $50.00 rebate. Also, if you wind up buying a Magellan, I can burn you a copy of the topo map and save you $90.00 By the way, I lied about the map pic in my photos. I had intended to post it but it was too large of a file. When we get together at the meeting I can show you what they look like. You can create some pretty high quality trail maps with the software. Later,


Mike

 

How big of a file is it?

I can shrink, and/or host it for you if you want.

 

no sorry bob it wasnt me with the GPS stuff.. I really want one just havent putit in the priority list yet.. Hopefully will get one soon thought. I now Megellan and one other are real good brands but dont now which one I would get.. Have to do my research on all...

 

It might have been me Bob I know i have mentioned it before. Ok everything mike said was right. Just for an example I have a Garmin GPSMap76S, I have Garmin Mapsource Topo, and I have most of the SE one quarter of the state of oklahoma downloaded to my 76s. The 76s has 24mb of internal memory and I think I used about 9mb for the SE portion of the state. Thats a lot of land. Some units have memory cards and you could download the whole US if you got one big enough and had enough time to download it. I prefer to download where I will be going. I can save the particular sets of maps of se oklahoma on my computer for later and then erase them off of the gps and then down load half of colorado if i am going there. Hopefully that makes some since to you guys if you have any gps questions at all I will do my best to answer them.

shane

 

Hey shane how did you like Pryor?



Ron