[pct-l] HALFMILE!!! You GPS god you........

[Ate Tuna]

Since you were only talking about the waypoints, the Garmin trail wouldn't
have to be very accurate to work fairly well with the waypoints.  If the
inaccuracy of the Garmin trail turns out to be inadequate, then you can
download Halfmile's tracks and configure that in a bright color or even
download his transparent map overlay.  Doing all that may make the screen on
your gps a bit of a mess, but I'm sure you can make it work...maybe bring a
spare set of batteries to the trailhead so you have extra juice to get used
to the configuration on your gps.

Better yet, get used to using the gps coordinates with your printed Halfmile
maps.  Not only does this free you of the technical 24k/waypoint/tracks
issues, but it can save battery life too.

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Michael Pinkus <mikepinkus at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> The problem I have here is that I'm in Canada and would have to order the
> disks from the US and I'm running out time. If I choose the 24k map download
> option, I'm looking at $200 US to get the maps.
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> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 21:08:49 -0700
> From: Tortoise73 at charter.net
> To: mikepinkus at hotmail.com
> CC: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] HALFMILE!!! You GPS god you........
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>    It would probably work. I
>      don't know how accurate the PCT route is on this. Perhaps someone
>      who has it can compare a section or two of halfmile's actual gps
>      track to it. I have the Garmin TOPO 24K West which covers
>      Washington, Oregon, California and Nevada. List is $130 but it is
>      a lot less on Amazon.
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>      Reading the description of the Garmin Trailhead Series - PCT it is
>      very limited -- per the description that is downloaded and
>      installed on one Garmin GPS and apparently you would have little
>      or no other access to the maps and info.
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>      I think you will be better served by get the TOPO 24K West which
>      as I read the Garmin license you can use on any Garmin product but
>      not on gear manufactured by others. You are also allowed to use it
>      on one computer. From what I've heard, Garmin uses a proprietary
>      map format so Garmin maps will not work on other manufactures GPS
>      anyway.
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>    Tortoise
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> <> Because truth matters.  <>
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>    On 04/04/11 18:28, Michael Pinkus wrote:
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>      I found this on Garmin's website. Will this work with your GPS
> waypoints?
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> https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=91299
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> cheers,
> Mike
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