You might want to have a look at Garmin BaseCamp
, it's free.
Rick Johnson
Bend Oregon
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On 3/8/2012 11:20 PM, Stewart Campbell wrote:
> Now that were done talking about Torque lets talk about GPS.
>
> I was a land surveyor for many years and know quite about professional GPS, but not much about reciational GPS.
> I have the Garmin 500 and love it. but I have not done much with the GPS function of it.
> I've seen mapmyride site, but I think that it cost money to print out maps off of it. Since the Garmin 500 only give turn by turn direction and not a full map like the 800, I still like to have a paper map on me for when I change my route mid ride.
> I just found the ridewithgps site and it looks like it has pretty good instructions for garmin users.
> I'm not a complete idiot with computers and GPS units but I like things to be simple. I'm just looking for an easy way that I can create my own route and download it into my garmin 500.
>
> Thanks for any feedback.
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