
Garmin has been working on solving one of those problems, and may have convinced me to drop 99 bucks on some maps - because they’ve finally started releasing regional 24k resolution map packs. I hate spending money.īruce was similarly frustrated - and since the free options GPS Tracklog rounded up have made little progress in making more California based maps, it appears we’re up a certain scatalogically named creek without a paddle … or map. They’re expensive ways to get information that is essentially free to the public … given a reliable printer and some free time. Hiker-friendly 24k resolution for Garmins was limited to National Parks and recreation areas, and 3. You can’t transfer maps from a National Geographic Topo program onto the Garmin units and I HATE closed systems.

In the post, I wrote that I hadn’t bought any MapSource maps for my GPS unit for three reasons: 1. Reader Bruce was poking around a post I did on free Garmin-compatible map alternatives from a while back.
