01-06-2006, 12:56 AM
A picture is worth a thousand words.
The first pic is of the GPS unit with a map I loaded into it. I just chose Mirrow lake as a point of reference. Although the pic quality isn't great (sorry!) you can see contour lines with elevations labeled, named lakes, paved roads, and trails. Jeep trails show up there too. I've just highlighted them in the second photo.
I have noticed, however, that with trails--they may vary from USGS topos ever so slightly. Sometimes the Garmin ones aren't updated, and sometimes the Garmin ones are more updated. I always pack USGS maps anyways, to get the big picture.
As far as the software goes, the third photo is a screenshot of the same area. The software has the maps that you load to the GPS unit, as well as tools that let you add waypoits, map your course, estimate distance, etc. etc. etc.
Not the greatest photos-maybe worth 500 words apiece or so...but hopefully you get the idea..
lurechucker
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The first pic is of the GPS unit with a map I loaded into it. I just chose Mirrow lake as a point of reference. Although the pic quality isn't great (sorry!) you can see contour lines with elevations labeled, named lakes, paved roads, and trails. Jeep trails show up there too. I've just highlighted them in the second photo.
I have noticed, however, that with trails--they may vary from USGS topos ever so slightly. Sometimes the Garmin ones aren't updated, and sometimes the Garmin ones are more updated. I always pack USGS maps anyways, to get the big picture.
As far as the software goes, the third photo is a screenshot of the same area. The software has the maps that you load to the GPS unit, as well as tools that let you add waypoits, map your course, estimate distance, etc. etc. etc.
Not the greatest photos-maybe worth 500 words apiece or so...but hopefully you get the idea..
lurechucker
[signature]