GPS

[rocky123]

has anyone downloaded this onto Garmin yet? Is it easy to do and does it affect the maps already on the GPS system

[swa]

The files you have there result in routes (with loads of waypoints -via points-).
It's not a map.

The bigget issue will be to get your Garmin device to import the route: only the very high end device will do so. The problem is always the same with GPS devices: they do not support (enough) waypoints in a route.

[rocky123]

Thanks for the advice - think I will just use the paper maps

[TheEditor]

Hi and welcome, Rocky.

I found the EZ 66 Guide to be more than sufficient when I took my trip from Albuquerque to Barstow this summer. Aside from the map of Santa Fe (either the book's fault or mine, but I had trouble determining how to stay on Route 66), I had a relatively easy time locating 66 and, when the spirit moved me, following a great many of the earlier alignments.

Get your kicks!

[rocky123]

Hey thanks thats great to know cos I bought Jerry McClanahan's EZ66 guides on the road and places to stay AND the set of maps for each state. My GPS maps are UK/Europe of course but I bought the chip for the USA road maps too and there is plenty of reference to the old road. Think this will suffice?

[Randy H]

I have a hand held GPS and a Android GPS phone... but I mostly use maps...

I use the hand held for historic site applications ... and plot our location on a cruise ship at sea...

I use my phone when needing a local map (assuming I am in 3g territory...)

Maps work even when in the middle of no where...

Maps and the notes written on them are a memory which will still be here when the batteries die on the GPS...

Randy