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Trail Maps | GPS Tracks NAXJA's New Trail Map Source - Utilizing topographic maps and GPX files. |
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The purpose of the Trail Maps/GPS Tracks Forum is to share information about trails. This is the only forum on
![]() Assuming that you already have a GPS and the cable to connect it to your computer, there are several ways to get these files into your GPS.
You may be alarmed to have track files and other detailed information about the location of your favorite trails floating around the internet for environmentalists to see and try to close. The time has passed where they even have to bother. The Forest Service and BLM are currently in a nationwide process of creating new travel management rules. Before, trails were considered open unless posted as closed, cross-country travel was also permitted in many areas. Once the new travel management plans are recorded, vehicles will only be permitted on trails that are marked open, all other areas are considered closed. We can not assume that the BLM and F.S. know where our trails are to include in their travel plans. The best way for us to help them keep our trails open is to be able to show them where they are located in an easy to understand manner. Your GPS becomes our most valuable tool for this job, giving us the ability to show the location of our trails on a map. The BLM and F.S welcomes comments from anybody at their travel management meetings, as well as by internet or the mail. If nobody submits an established trail during this process it is possible for it to be left out of the travel management plan and closed forever. So please, start archiving the GPS tracks on your computer from your trail rides, share the ones you think that others will enjoy and above all, participate in the planning process! To make this forum easy to browse and use: Use the format, "state- trail name" to title your posts. For example, "CA- Rubicon Trail". Try to edit your track logs to get rid of all the wrong turns and such. ExpertGPS and Garmin Mapsource have tools to do this easily. Be aware that there is a maximum amount of track points per imported track for many GPS units. Check the length of each track before and after importing it, if the track is shorter in your GPS than it was in your computer and you get a message like "track truncated" you will have to use one of the above mentioned programs to reduce the number of track points per track to an acceptable amount for your unit. My Garmin GPSMAP 60Cx is limited to 20 saved or imported tracks of 500 points each, my old GPS V was limited to a paltry 250 points per. This specification is sometimes difficult to find in the manual, usually it only mentions the size of the raw track log created by the unit itself, not imported logs. Let's keep discussion in this forum strictly to trail talk. Ask your technical questions about GPS units, mapping programs and transferring data between them right outside the door in the Adventure Forum. Happy Trails! Last edited by Handlebars; March 31st, 2008 at 10:16. |
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Re: About this forum: please read before posting
Awesome!!!
Good to see this up and running. |
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Re: About this forum: please read before posting
When I try to open the files in Mapsource I get a message that says ________.gpx is not a valid Win32 application. What am I doing wrong?
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Re: About this forum: please read before posting
Wayne, what version of Mapsource are you running? Does your current version support .gpx files? When you have a file open in Mapsource and select "save as" you should get these choices:
![]() Go the "help" tab at the top, select "about Mapsource...", a window should pop up showing what version you have. All of those files were written with version 6.13.6, go here for the update to version 6.13.7. I haven't bothered updating to the .7 because none of the bugs fixed from .6 apply to me. Do you have a Pritchett Canyon GPS track? The forum could sure use a writeup of that trail and you know it as well as anyone! |
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