100 Mile Snow Safari Forum

Anyone using GPS to ride the trail systems in Wisconsin?? I hear there are now downloads you can install into your GPS for snowmobile trail maps. Anyone have any experience with this, and if so, what are you using for a GPS and software? Thanks.

Mike

I'm using a Garmin GPSMap 76CS and several of the MapSource titles, including: Roads & Recreation, U.S. Recreational Lakes with Fishing Hot Spots, and Topo.

I personally mapped out a good portion of the 100 Miler last year, but never got around with doing anything with the data, and now some of the trails have changed since last year.

I would like to get out early this year, and map the whole thing again, and then perhaps provide the data free to our booster members and registered users. :thumbup:

I ordered an interactive trail map software program last year. It ran so slow on my computer (Pent4 3.46GHz 4GB RAM Radeon X800 XT) and some of the maps were wrong, that I quit using it.

[QUOTE=Jim;413]
I ordered an interactive trail map software program last year. It ran so slow on my computer (Pent4 3.46GHz 4GB RAM Radeon X800 XT) and some of the maps were wrong, that I quit using it.[/QUOTE]

Um...... you have almost as much RAM as I do total HD space!:lol:

Wow Jim what you running there for a computer! I'm impressed. If you want something neat to put in it water cool it, really cuts down on the noise... If you ever upgrade you can always send me some used parts!:D

It's a Dell XPS Gen4 that's almost 2 years old. It also has a 300GB Hard Disk Drive (HDD)!

I got you beat mine is 4 years old. I think it time for an upgrade, but I built mine myself so I got just what I want in it:redgrin::redgrin:

I used to build-- Er, assemble my own too! I worked for a computer company years ago, where I literally assembled thousands of computers from the ground up. I'd start with just a case (bare bones unit) and build it from the ground up to customer specifications. Hardware and Software. It was fun! :thumbup: The only problem with buying parts from different vendors, is if you have problems. With multiple vendors, it allows for 'finger-pointing' and not 'problem-solving'. Now, I just go to Dell, to custom configure any computer I need. They'll build it to my specifications. I like that, because it saves me a lot of time, and if there is a problem, I only have to make one phone call. In all the years I've been using the Dells, I think I've only had one problem.:biggrin:

[QUOTE=Av25842;420]I got you beat mine is 4 years old. I think it time for an upgrade, but I built mine myself so I got just what I want in it:redgrin::redgrin:[/QUOTE]

Pfft...... the one I'm using I bought in September 2000! 6+ years runnin on Winders ME :thumbup:

[quote=Keemez]Pfft...... the one I'm using I bought in September 2000! 6+ years runnin on Winders ME :thumbup:[/quote]:sick: :sick: :sick: I think ME might of been one of the most unstable O/S that MSFT ever released!

But you know... I always used to tell people: [B]It's not what you've got, but what you do with what you have![/B] If you have one guy that's using his Cray supercomputer to play Pong, and another guy who is still doing his books on an old IBM PC XT... who's getting the job done? I actually thought about upgrading a few weeks ago, until I remembered that little saying. :rolleyes:

Actually I [B]do[/B] seem to be havin a few issues here and there- thing likes to crash on me about 4 nights outta the week (overnight). I get repeated blue screens of death, etc.

Waitaminnit here..... is this the 100 MEGer website or 100 MILEr? How'd we wind up talkin about puters instead of snowmobiles!?!

BTW- I prefer Pitfall to Pong. Pong is way too challenging! :redgrin: