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Robert Easton
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 Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:11 am Post subject: GPS Software for Garmin Handheld - (Crumb Trail Download) |
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I was wondering if there was a software package that would allow me to
download the "crumb trail" maps from my handheld GPS. I'm using a Garmin
GPS 12, (a hell of a buy at $100). It has "data in" and "data out" pins. I
know you can hook it up to a laptop computer for certain applications. All
I was interested in was downloading the crumb trail maps after a flight.
Any info appreciated. Thanks, Robert |
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tom
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| Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 6:11 am Post subject: Re: GPS Software for Garmin Handheld - (Crumb Trail Download |
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Robert Easton wrote:
| Quote: | I was wondering if there was a software package that would allow me to
download the "crumb trail" maps from my handheld GPS.
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I do this with National Geographic TOPO!. It is a neat program that
gives you a whole state of topographic maps in one package. Connected
to a gps, it will allow both upload of waypoints and routes, and
download of waypoints and your track. After a flight, I like to
download the track and relive my flight on the maps.
The program and data come on six or eight cds, but you can copy the
data over to a dvd and have everything on one disk, or copy to your
hard drive and not mess with disks at all. I've got several western
states on my desktop computer, and reference them for all sorts of
reasons.
Another neat feature is to build an elevation profile of a line drawn
on the map, (or your downloaded track.) Used in the planning stages of
a flight, you can see the elevation of terrain on your proposed flight
path.
tom |
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