The Rover-Landers of BC

I'm not sure if anyone else uses a mapping GPS, but I made up a map set for the trail. I based the estimate of the route of Kris' waypoints, the trail guide, some government road data and some satellite image overlays. It will be accurate in some locations and not in others, but should give the general route.

The download is here: http://www.calgarycachers.net/trailmaps ... _setup.zip

Run the file in the zip file and it will install the map set into MapSource. If you don't have MapSource, let me know and I can direct you on how to get it. From Mapsource, it can be installed to a Garmin GPS or viewed on the computer. If someone is MAC only, let me know and I'll put up the MAC version. If you really need a Magellan version, I can be bribed with beer into doing one :wink: .

The maps are "transparent". This means that they overlay other maps and thus can be seen in combination with the map of your choosing.

On the map you will see two main trails, "Alex Mac Rt", which is my estimate of the route the club took last time and "Am Trail" which is my rough estimate of Mackenzie's actual route based on the guide book in locations where it varies from the club route.

I've also included:
- All roads from the Geobase and Topo databases.
- Most of Kris' waypoints.
- Points of interests such as fuel, food, camping, etc..
- Water features from the Topo database.
- Note the roads are all routable on routing capable GPS receivers.

This is a screenshot from my handheld with the basemap on.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45/Red90rover/318.jpg

And here is another spot except this time with Ibycus' topo maps.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45/Red90rover/461.jpg

If there are any questions let me know. If someone does use them and sees things they would like changed, please pass on your suggestions.

There has been interest in the bitmap versions of the maps. As it is a bit confusing to figure out what maps out of the 10000 choices to download, I downloaded all of the ones that cover the trail and stuck them into a single ZIP file.

It is pretty big (750+ MB), so be patient. The file contains 22 1:50000 and 4 1:250000 maps scanned to 300DPI and in GeoTIFF format. This is a very common format and should be directly readable by most raster based mapping programs.

http://www.calgarycachers.net/trailmaps ... bitmap.zip

If you are using Oziexplorer, you need to install this file: http://www.oziexplorer3.com/xtras/ozigeotiff.zip