Question57

I have the 60CSX and mapping a large ranch for an off road club and marking all the farm roads (9 so far) and about 15 different trails. Each road and trail is saved and named as a track. From what I can tell the 60CSX has a 20 track limit and increasing the MicroSD card will not increase that limit. Do I understand this correctly?

If so, is there another way to have each of the roads/trails seperate but get them all on the device?

Additionally when its all said and done, I would like to print a view larger maps of the ranch (3'x5') and I can not find a good way to do so just yet. I see no page size or setup function so when I print all I am printing is what is currently visable in the MapSource window. I have zoomed in and taken about 25 screen grabs and pieced them together in PhotoShop but that will be horrible to recreate everytime I need to edit the map.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA.
David

Andy

Hi David! Welcome to the site!

The 60CSx has a feature to log the tracks directly to the MicroSD Card. See page 28 of the owners manual for details on how to find this setting.

I do this exact thing with my 76CSx. I have the tracking set to use .02/mile, which gives a ton of track points. If you hit the "save" track function it strips out most of the points while keeping the overall track intact.

I would recommend using the memory card feature, which is only limited to the free space on it.

Then once you have the tracks on the card, copy the files (it automatically creates new files for each day) and open them in Mapsource. Once you have them in there, rename the tracks, etc to the labeling you need.

I'm not sure on your question about printing large maps of them. Mapsource is definitely lacking in this department. Have you tried the "View in Google Earth" option from the View menu? Would that help at all?

You can get all the tracks visible in Mapsource at once. In the left pane, under the Tracks tab, select all your tracks at once, right click on them and hit "Show selected track on map." This zooms/re-centers the current view to show all your tracks. That will give you one view with all the tracks highlighted. If that view is what you want to print out in a large poster, Blue Squirrel's Clickbook program can do it.

Question57

Thanks! I wish I would have found this place months ago. I have been self teaching myself for months and this place seems like a great resource so far.

I already found that setting but it did not seem to work so I guess my 64mb card just happens too full enough not to hold my tracks and waypoints too. I was planning on getting a 2 gb card but heard that the tracks were limited by the device so a card would not help. I am glad to hear you say saving to card eliminates the device's 20 track limit.

Thanks, I'll start looking onto that.

Max

Hey David, welcome to the site

Yeah the 64mb will fill up fairly fast, you can get a 1 or 2 gig for ~20$ these days, I would definitely recommend upgrading. I have a 1 gig in mine and even after weeks of tracks and trips it's still got alot of room left...and I have about 700mb of maps on the card.

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Looks like Blue Squirrel will print any size you want but on regular paper that you have to tape together. I have essentially done the same thing but zoomed in and taken dozens of screengrabs and put them together in photoshop to create a HUGE file, but editing that will be just as tedious so its not too practical unless the map goes unchanged. So if anyone else knows another way to read and print .gbd or .gpx lets hear it.

Max

Hmm, Google Earth will let you import them...not sure what they have for printing options though, worth a check maybe?