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Thanks everyone. That was the type of answers I was looking for. So I won't spend the money as I plan to stay on this list and gain all the knowledge that I can, and if I have any specific questions I will do the suggested searches. Cheers, C

Hi. Has anyone read the book "Hacking GPS" by Kathie Kingsly-Hughes? I haven't taken my unit out into the wild yet, but I sometimes like to read up on cool techno stuff. Plus, I've got a store credit at Barnes and Noble (though I don't want to waste it). Does anyone know of the book and if the information is any good? I've got an IFinder Hunt, and does this stuff work with Lowrance units? Thanks, Chris F.

Well, first I just made a really wide corridor that came across from the west and then up to Canada, that covered most of the state. After reading your post, I tried to enclose the area with a narrower corridor, but I'm not sure I got it to work right because I didn't have detail in the enclosed area when I opened it on my GPSr. Finally, I just made rectangular maps big enough to encompas the area that I wanted, like you suggested, and saved it to my new 512 card, which has plenty of room for what I want. You were right, it wasn't worth wasting any more time when I had abundant storage available. Thanks, much, for the help. C

I did as best as I could to compare a lot of units and settled on the IFinder Hunt. Big screen, good size, and I liked the SD Cards for saving maps. It has a lot of buttons on the front, but they are labled and I think pretty easy to use. I originally got a Etrex Legend or Vista as a gift, but I returned it for the IFinder, because after reading through the manual it seemed difficult to use, but I never even turned it on. I've been playing with the IFinder and so far think it's great.

Hi. I'm new to GPS and the forums and was glad to see info on Lowrance and Mapcreate. The info is great so I thought I would post a question for the software experts! I made a retangular map to encompass New York State, without NYC, but with a corner that went up into lake Erie and Canada. This turned out to be about 28MB. I then did a corridor map to get as close to just the boarders of the State without the extra, and this came to about 32 MB. Nothing else changed. Any guesses as to what's going on? I thought the purpose of corridor maps was to create smaller map files focused on a specific area? I called tech support and the guy could only say that I must have included something in the corridor map that was not in the rectangular map, but I don't believe that is the case as I did it a couple of times and tried to be tight on the boarders. Is this just something goofy with the software? Thanks, Chris F.