Nevada Backroaders

Still looking to buy my first GPS in the near future. Are the home made trail maps like seperate files that can be put up for download or emailed/shared?

Do gps units from different manufacturers use different/incompatible file formats?

I'm gonna grab a Garmin from gps city in the next week or 2.

Thanks

It seems like Garmin files work only with Garmin GPS units and the same goes for Magellan. There's probably a program that converts for either. I've tried to save and send tracks in a file that's supposed to be compatible with either mfg's but still didn't work for the Magellan user I sent it to.

I think there are more people with Garmin GPS units than Magellan's, but I could be wrong. I have a whole bunch of tracks saved from my Garmin GPS, so if there is somewhere you want to go, post it up and I'll see if I have the tracks for that area.

There is a United States Topo program that I use. It's around $100 or so. It is comparable to the US Geological Survey's 1:100,000 scale paper maps. There is also US Topo 24K National Parks maps in which I have the NP West maps. Both programs are very detailed and they have worked very well for me.

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Supposedly this program http://www.gpstm.com/ can read and save most file formats......and it's free...so it might be worth a shot if you want to trying converting some files....

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