Software for Creating Routes

[Podgod]

Hi,

 

I'm quite new to the world of GPS and geocaching so I appoligise if this question has been answered elsewhere and I have have just not been looking hard enough.

 

I have a Garmin etrex H and I have managed to work out how to download my data on to Google Earth so I can see where I've been, I'm quite happy with this. What I would like to know if there is there any software available that will allow me to plan a route, on a map, and then upload it to my GPS to save me from having to do this manually.

 

Thanks

Brad

[+donbadabon]

What I would like to know if there is there any software available that will allow me to plan a route, on a map, and then upload it to my GPS to save me from having to do this manually.

 

Garmin MapSource will allow you to do this. You create the route in MapSource and then upload the route into your GPS unit.

 

Your particular unit can hold up to 20 different routes.

[Podgod]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

 

So the Garmin Mapsource TOPO Scotland disc would do for me living in the Highlands. That fact that it comes on a micro SD card will it still let me install it on to my PC with the correct card reader?

[+New Jersey TJ]

Take a look at the Track Maker at GPSIES (HERE). I use it to create tracks in areas that you can't on geocaching.com, such as along rail beds that have been converted to bike trails. I keep the points close together and then generate a PQ along a route.

[+TotemLake]

That fact that it comes on a micro SD card will it still let me install it on to my PC with the correct card reader?

Probably not the case. More informed will chimed in, but I think the software is locked to the SD card.

[savant9]

Using Garmin Basecamp , SD card maps are useable on the PC for routes, etc

[Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hide]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

 

So the Garmin Mapsource TOPO Scotland disc would do for me living in the Highlands. That fact that it comes on a micro SD card will it still let me install it on to my PC with the correct card reader?

 

The eTrex H won't allow SD cards of any description. It takes an "X" model for that.

[+Redwoods Mtn Biker]

No, but he should be able to upload routes. I think savant9 is right -- Basecamp should work.