

- #GPS FILE DEPOT MY TRAILS HOW TO#
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(On an iPhone it often seems to help to send that file to yourself by email iOS tends to change or work with downloads in ways that make things difficult otherwise. We have lots ways to help you find the trail including maps, guidebooks, track and waypoint data for your handheld GPS unit, and free trailhead parking coordinates for your automobile GPS.
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And there are lots of tools which can be used, which I’ll need toįind or create a gpx, and download it to your smartphone.
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Organizers offer gpx tracks/routes for download. Since my last update on free 1:24K-equivalent topo maps for Garmin GPS units from GPSFileDepot, there’s been a huge explosion in the number of states covered. Thus, you will need to create routes or find and download them in some other Not have any functionality for creating routes in the app, on any kind of map. Meaning, you need to get them onto your smartphone. BACKUPS, CHARGING, & SAFETY While we always encourage carrying paper map backups of the routes you ride, reliable printed maps aren’t always available for the regions we cover. To Get RoutesĬoros works via its app, so this is where you will need to get routes. Choose the right basemap to download into your GPS (GPS File Depot is a good place to start) and/or research the best OSM or topo layers for your app.
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Here, how to get routes into the Coros appĪnd how to transfer them to a Coros watch. So we’ve still got a ways to go.Navigate along a route is one of the best features of a GPS sports/outdoor Some of the map sites they link to have great, detailed maps of Sequoia and Kings Canyon, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, and Lassen - but still no Angeles National Forest. It requires a bunch of different web sites and a Windows freeware download, but hey - that’s what we hax0rs have to do when The Man doesn’t give us what we need, right? Trans America Trail (TAT) Just as the title implies, the Trans America Trail is a mostly off. Here’s a smattering of these types of sites. There are many sites that will GPX files for a fee, a donation, or in some cases free.

The gearheads over at GPS Tracklog have put together a comprehensive list of sources and instructions on how to get some free 24k maps from the internets into your Garmin GPS. Even though there are many GPX files on ADVRider, you may find yourself wanting even more. It’s not easy, but a temporary solution is here - free, user-created, Garmin-compatible GPS maps. Until they update their data and give me more detailed maps, I ain’t handin’ over any hard-earned cash. Garmin’s MapSource TOPO West, for instance, covers the Santa Monica Mountains and the San Bernardino National Forest, but not the Angeles, Cleveland, or Los Padres.

Garmin has its own map software, but it’s overpriced, out of date, and missing giant chunks of hikers’ territories in the 1:24k resolution that’s best for the trail. I really liked the features and price of the Garmins, but National Geographic TOPO (which, in my opinion, has the most comprehensive and powerful mapping tools) aren’t able to be displayed on the GPS unit’s screen. Since my last update on free 1:24K-equivalent topo maps for Garmin GPS units from GPSFileDepot, theres been a huge explosion in the number of states covered. One of the most frustrating (and lame) things I learned when researching GPS units was their crippled map capabilities.
