Welcome to my little corner of the world... The purpose of this site is to document my various interests/projects and make them available in the hope that the information might be useful to others. Most of my interests involve some combination of the following: family, community, traveling, computers (technology in general) and mapping.
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Utah topo mapset for Garmin GPS units updated. New update of the Utah topo mapset for Garmin GPS units. This update adds a preview map for use in MapSource and a couple of configuration changes to help with performance.
Montana topo mapset for Garmin GPS units updated. Minor update of the Montana topo mapset for Garmin GPS units. This update fixes an issue with the bathymetry data and another with the presentation of land status data.
New Montana topo mapset for Garmin GPS units released! First release of the Montana topo mapset for Garmin GPS units. This mapset features the following data layers: transportation, land use, high resolution water features, 40ft elevation contours and a rich set of POIs.
Colorado topo mapset for Garmin GPS units updated. New update of the Colorado topo mapset for Garmin GPS units. This update adds NHD high resolution water data, more detailed land status data, a preview map for use in MapSource and a couple of configuration changes to help with performance.
New Utah topo mapset for Garmin GPS units released! First release of the Utah topo mapset for Garmin GPS units. This mapset features the following data layers: transportation, land use, high resolution water features, 40ft elevation contours and a rich set of POIs.
New Wyoming topo mapset for Garmin GPS units released! First release of the Wyoming topo mapset for Garmin GPS units. This mapset features the following data layers: transportation, land use, water features, 40ft elevation contours and a rich set of POIs.
Updated Colorado topo mapset for Garmin GPS units released. This new release adds 40ft elevation contours to the mapset.
New Colorado 4WD Trails topo mapset for Garmin GPS units released! First release of the Colorado 4wd Trails topo mapset for Garmin GPS units. This mapset features the following data layers: transportation, high visibility trail styles, water features, elevation contours and a rich set of POIs.
Creating custom installers for custom mapsets. When distributing custom mapsets to the general public a general and automatic process is preferred. The purpose of this page is to demonstrate how to use a free installation application to create a self-installer for custom GPS mapsets.
New Minnesota OHV Trails mapset for Garmin GPS units released! First release of the Minnesota OHV Trails mapset for Garmin GPS units.
Garmin .img file information. A perl script utility aids the effort working with custom maps by scanning a directory of .img files and displaying the area/description fields associated with each file.
Switching mapsets on Garmin GPS units. A few years ago Garmin, via a firmware update for its mapping units, delivered a method to switch between mapsets. Unfortunately they didn't document it very well (at all?). This page demonstrates how to switch mapsets using this new functionality.
State GIS data resources. A page containing information and resources pertaining to digital map data available for various state.
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