AmishWarlord

My old PC didn't have a DVD drive in it. I'm useing the disk that came with my GPS but it only has the base map on it. I dont know how I got City Navagator NT 2009 on my map sourse programe.

I had Trip & Waypoint Manager on my desk top PC. The T&WM program had a NT 2009 map on it and I used it to plan routs for motorcycling and geocaching. My desktop PC died so I’m using a lap top. I loaded my T&WM CD into the lap top and now it just has the base map with only 1% of the roads. How do I load NT 2009 into it? I have a copy of NT 2009 on a micro SD card I bought for my CSX60 if that helps.

How do you guys plan your motorcycle caching trips? Here is how I'm doing mine now. I start on the map and look for cities that I'd like to visit or some theme. Then I connect them with a strait line and divide it into 11 equal points So I end up with 10 caches between the cities. Next I use geocache.com to find the nearest cache for each point along the route. I'm planing a theme trip when I get the 1200 GS bike. I call it the "300." It will start in Spartanburg, SC and go North to Sparta, NC. This is the trip by car. It's 172 miles and takes 3 hours. Take I-85 north turn right on I-77 north then another right on I-21 north and your there. Boring! This is the strait line distance of 117 miles. I divide that by 10.6 mile segments and get 10 waypoints along the line. Next I find a cache near each waypoint. Sometimes a good cache can be 15 or so miles away from the waypoint. Now the route is 196 miles long and goes through some interesting areas. I end up with a route that has lots of squiggly roads that we bikers like. I rarley used the routes that I had loaded so I only load the caches into the GPS now and just go cache to cache picking my own way between them and the caches keep me on course for the city I want to go to.

Wow cool thread. I ride and cache. Right now I'm on a Honda Shadow 1100. I'm hoping to upgrade to a BMW 1200 GS Adventure soon so I can get more off road action in like "SSSSS" is doing with his. Looks like your having a ball on your GS "Ss" Caching on the bike saves gas and is more fun!