Some GPS & Mapping links

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Francis Cooke's Garmin essays - Basic stuff: Living with a Garmin: Etrex Basic Setup Definition of Terms eg Route, Track etc Living with a Garmin: Battery Runtime and Etrex Jitter Living with a Garmin: The Waypoints Limitation (and other limits) Living with a Garmin: The Follow Road Trap Living with a Garmin: The Circular Routes Problem Living with a Garmin: Declutter the Page Sequence Living with a Garmin: Living with Mapsource Maps Living with a Garmin: Waypoint Naming (for direct-style routes) Living with a Garmin: Colour your Tracks and Routes Living with a Garmin: Create a Route on the GPS Top 5 GPS Tips (pdf) reprint of Arrivee article published Feb 2007 Some GPS FAQs web version of Arrivee article published Nov 2008   NEW - Garmin Etrex 20/30 essays: Etrex 30 review reprint of Arrivee article published Jan 2012 Etrex 20 & 30, Basic Setup Taming the Etrex 20/30: Restore the 'Page' key. Living with a Garmin: Show on Map (Tracks) Dakota 20 review reprint of Arrivee article published Feb 2010 Living with a Garmin: Waypoint Naming and the Dakota 20 / Etrex 30 Course Navigation on the Edge 800 by Alan Thompson (external link)

More Garmin essays - not-so-basic: Garmin Etrex C Menu Map (pdf, July 2008) Living with a Garmin: Full Reset Living with a Garmin: Track, Route or Autoroute Living with a Garmin: Three Ways to Beat the Waypoint Limit Living with a Garmin: Three Ways to Beat the Trackpoint Limit Living with a Garmin: Less is More Living with a Garmin: Add Contours to your GPS Maps Living with a Garmin: Struggling with GPX  &...  More GPX Living with a Garmin: Screens you don't see every day Living with a Garmin: Downgrade your Mapsource Living with a Garmin: Put an OSM Map on your Garmin Living with a Garmin: GPS Soak Test files to test your GPS waypoint capacity OpenStreetMap and Mapsource Add OSM to your Mapsource collection A Google Maps Workflow Create, Edit, Save, Share and Export a route Planning your DIY Perm Route with Google Maps by Paul Stewart (external link) Open, Solder, Close an Etrex (external link)

Online Mapping: Google Maps Multimap OS Get-a-map OpenStreetMap Cloudmade OSM-based variants Wikimapia   OSM Download sites Garmin.OpenStreetMap.nl Best most flexible download site, easy but clunky Freizeitcarte Like the above, but much slicker (Europe only)

Some other useful resources: Jo Wood's GPS/Audax FAQ - excellent web page, introduction to GPS. Maps comparison – City Navigator and OS Discoverer a must-visit page. GPS Information .net big resource GPS Passion big resource GPS Review.net good up-to-date reviews, forum GPSFileDepot some useful tutorials, forum Groundspeak Forums GPS-related forum Open Source GPS How To  ...  Info for Linux users Garmin  ...   Magellan  ...   Lowrance  ...   Satmap 4 leisure GPS makes Good tutorials on how the GPS system works: www.trimble.com/gps/index.shtml www.kowoma.de/en/gps/index.htm Wikipedia on GPS Topografix - the GPX Schema Desktop Mapping: Memory Map    ...   Tracklogs    ...   Anquet OziExplorer    ...   Fugawi IGN    ...   IGN / Garmin French Basemaps GPS Turbo open-source, cross-platform, desktop map display Garmin: MapSource   ...   and latest version Update (free) **NB - versions 6.14 or later can be slower in use - see my note here Metrowizz Autorouting wizard - beats the Metroguide incompatibility trap Add-on contour maps courtesy of Scottish Mountaineering Club WinGDB3 utility converts between Mapsource Route/Tracks, useful MapSetToolKit utility to help add 'other' maps into Mapsource Garmin latest GPS Firmware Updates (free) Garmin Communicator browser plugin, connects Garmin GPS Linux equivalent to above

Mobile Atlas Creator Make offline maps for your smartphone GMaps Pedometer Bikely MapMyRide Toporoute Routeslip GPSies Netkvik Ride with GPS Optimap quick round-trip solver EarthTools adds contours to Google mapping BikeHike uses OS as well as Google mapping Openrunner uses IGN as well as Google mapping BikeRouteToaster aimed mainly at Garmin Edge users CTC Maps good routes resource, parts need CTC membership/login

Utilities:
GPSBabel very good file cleaner and converter, also connects GPS, recommended but geeky!
ITN Converter another converter tool, not so powerful but easier
GPS Visualizer web-based GPS utilities, recommended
GmapToGPX to get GPX from Google Maps
Googlemap Cuesheet to get Cuesheet, GPX and Course from Google Maps
EasyGPS simple clean-up utility, also connects GPS
GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) more about waypoints than about routes and tracks
GPS Altitude Chart useful tool, requires Java.
Golden Cheetah very comprehensive tracklog analysis.
RouteConverter planning and converting, requires Java.
Javawa GPS Tools useful conversion, fettling, management tools.
Viking open-source GPS data management
GPS Trackmaker
GPS Utility not free, but very comprehensive
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