Our group is planing to do some riding in Northern Maine this year and i would like to know if anyone could share some of there GPS tracks of the local trials in the area. This way i can load them up to my GPS and PC which will come in handy i am sure. :div20:

What areas were you looking for?

I have got a ton, how do you want the files uploaded??
I dont think you can email those types of files can you?

Zach

hello, thanks for the help.

Hmm i am not sure about how to send these files. I know a few GPS junkies that i'll email and see whats the best way to do this.

I would like anything from say the Millinocket/Baxter Park area and north of that.

Thanks again

Yea the ones i have got are from Fort Kent to Estcourt Station, and other ones all around Caribou, Van Buren, Fort Kent, and Presqe Isle. I have a few from the Jackman/Pittstons farms area as well.

i'll take what u have if u dont mind. I guess the best way to send them is through email. please send them too:

firecat681@yahoo.com

thanks :div20:

I'd like to get some of these too. If you send them to me I can host them and put links up for everyone.

jason.light@umit.maine.edu

I sucessfully emailed them to you, and JLight. That would be great if you could host them for everyone else. I didnt have all the trips I thought I did mostly just the shorter ones. hope this helped u guys out. :beerchug:

Here's the ones I have so far. If anybody else has some, send them along and I'll add to it.

http://voyager.umeres.maine.edu/~jason_light/gps.zip

i got them already on my mapsource....thanks

Jlight, when i get over in Maine if i hppen to hit any trials other than what we get here I'll try and remember to send them your way.

The Caribou/Van Buren/Eagle Lake/Fort Kent is a great loop to do. The trails are really well marked up there so you wont really need a gps track to know where your going but they do help plan the day. hope those helped you guys out. Zach :beerchug:

That is a great loop. Should be able to do over 200 miles along that route in a day. Plenty of gas stops also.

What are you guys using to open those files? Nothing I have seems to open a .gdb file? Thanks

Garmin Mapsource software is what im using, not sure what else will open them.

yeh if u dont have mapsource i not sure what will open them.

I am really looking forward to getting back over in Maine with my sled after a 10 yrs absence.

I can't seem to figure this out. I just got my first gps (Garmin Legend CX). I can load the tracks into the mapsource software but I can't seem to get them onto the gps. Atleast I can't see them after I do the transfer. Can anybody help me?

there should be 2 buttons with one arrow pointing away from the gps picture and one button where it points towards it, one of those will upload info to the gps. What you do before that is get the tracks opened in the program and have them in the list to the left. It kinda sounds confusing but play around with it for a bit and its pretty straitforward to do it, if you are able to at least open tracks in the mapsource program.

I do this but it doesn't do anything. The tracks are not listed in the gps anywhere and they don't show on the map. Should they show up in the saved tracks list? What am I doing wrong?

here is what you should click to upload things to your gps.
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I can now get part of the eagle lake trip to load but not all of it. It also takes up half my storage for just that trip. I think there are just too many points (4700). I think I'll just have to record my own tracks.

ohh yea there are quite a few, i gottta fix that setting sometime.

Jlight, click on the track thathas too many points, then go to track properties. and click on filter. This will allow u too choose diferent ways to delete unecessary pts on the track. be patient a frig around with it and it becomes second nature in no time.

Think I got it figured out. They don't show up in the list of tracks though just on the map. Good enough. I'll be able to tell if I'm on the right trail. Thanks guys.