recently bought a etrex 30x, how good are the topo maps .Hoping to get one with boundery lines WMU's, are they available?
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recently bought a etrex 30x, how good are the topo maps .Hoping to get one with boundery lines WMU's, are they available?
I have Backroads Ontario, cost about $150.00 shows MNR management unit boundies
Dick
have an old Garmin Canada topo map. Up north (52º), I found they are off by about 100m and not whatsoever current even if it comes to larger bodies of water.
not sure if they have reworked them since, but there is a reason why people started buying other maps that were consolidated based on satellite images rather than ancient government surveys.
If you can find it, Ibycus maps. Use Mapsource from Garmin to load Ibycus. I have had great luck with that.
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Originally Posted by BDH
Have it on my Garmin Montana
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Originally Posted by IFH
So do I...great maps!
I have Trakmaps, its good but I heard Backroads is better. The Garmin map chip was useless. I used to download free raster map files then save directly to my GPS memory, not sure if that is still possible but the map chips like Trakmaps are much more convenient and have more info like WMU's.
I was looking at the etrex 20 with Topo package. Am I better of with other map software.
I just found Ibycus a few weeks ago , price was right at "free" good maps that show a lot more bush roads / trails than Garmin Topo maps do.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulR
Just got a flyer; Radio World has the Backroads on sale Friday to Monday for $119.99 .. Good deal as they are usually $149.00
They say "limited stock"
Dick
thanks for youre replies guys ,cheched out backroads. I think thats exactly what I want, Just ordered it from GPS central.
Just out of interest I looked at the Garmin topo on a new extrex. I really don't think any difference from my etrex venture with topo from 2008. How can they justify that price??
If you or anyone you know is a user of the Linux OS they have access to software that will convert between GPS map formats. You'll love the price of the software too.......FREE. See a good map but it's not in a format your GPS can read, just convert it.