Hey guys,
Here is what I did, I downloaded certain trails from the Wisconsin US Trails program intomy Garmin GPSMAP60cs. This program loades a buttload of waypoints and no actual trail marking. I then downloaded it to mapsource, connected the dots and erased the waypoints. Then i erased all the waypoints in my garmin and downloaded the tracks to my GPS
See attachment.Click to view attachment
The first is the tracks I hand drew on Mapsource, the second is what i actually recorded from the GPSClick to view attachment

humm looks good. I noticed that most of the firelanes and back roads up there are on the topo maps. but no the trails.

that really sucks there is no trail markings.......

[quote=WIkid500,Feb 15 2006, 04:58 PM]
humm looks good. I noticed that most of the firelanes and back roads up there are on the topo maps. but no the trails.

that really sucks there is no trail markings.......

[/quote
When i have some free time i will try to add that!

Oo, you are on to something. I'm going to the Western U.P. this weekend, I have U.S. Trailmaps WI/U.P. Pro and MapSource Topo, and I agree, Topo is way better, so I would like to do this and help/share the gdb's too. I'm new to it, got my GPS 2 days ago, so how did you do it?

1. Download US Trails into GPS unit
2. Upload those trails from GPS unit to MapSource
3. Edit those routes in MapSouce.

I guess #3 is what I don't understand yet, since I haven't done it (I haven't done any of this yet to be honest), but I'll get crackin' and see what I can do.

I've been scouring the web looking for gdb's of the U.P. and WI to load in MapSource, but what I'm finding is pretty hit and miss.

EDIT - I find the TrailMaps software very frustrating, the route feature is tedious, and there is no Undo button if you click on a trail and it automatically picks a different route than you intended, you have to start over. It also won't route some trails that I would like to include in a route.

http://www.snowmobileworld.com/forum/index.php?showforum=71

Oh dude, Jeezus that's just what I wanted. Thanks much. Set the man up, drinks are on me. :banana:

BTW, in mapsource, how do you pull in several different gdb files at once. I want to take all the gdb's I'm finding for the U.P. (in Topo) and load them all on my GPS so I have all the Western U.P. trails on my GPS for my trip this weekend. Gotta be able to do that, I just haven't figure it out yet (GPS newbie!).

Open a second instance of Mapsource...select the track(s) you want...right click...copy... then paste it into the other open Mapsource.

Got it, thanks. I have about half the tracks I want for my UP trip this weekend, can't find the rest. I have USTrailMaps but it is not loading routes to my GPS for some reason, their tech support could not figure it out either. ...

In a pinch print out a map of the tracks/routes/trails you want from USTrailMaps...then use the Track Draw Tool in Mapsource (Beta version) and create you own tracks using the printout as a guide.