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I've downloaded the NYS topo map file along with My Trails and it works fine on my eTrex30.

Is there a better software/file I should consider that would contain all of the trails within the Adirondacks?

Once I zoom into an area I'm going to hike, it would be fantastic if I could use BC to draw magnetic north lines that would appear on the printed copy.

I've used the ruler to draw a single line, using my area's declination adjustment, but that line disappears once I click off the ruler button.

Is there any way to create magnetic north line(s) on BC that will print out?

OBJECTIVE - To create a waypoint in BaseCamp, based upon coordinates from Google Earth, then print out a topo map with that waypoint marked.

PROBLEM -  The waypoint  is not positioned in Basecamp where I would expect it to be.

I am going to bushwhack to a pond from a trail. I have downloaded the NyTopo11 from this website then imported it into BC.

My first step was to go to Google Earth and really zoom in on the pond and create a waypoint on the midpoint of the western shore of the pond.  I wrote down the Easting and Northing coordinates of this waypoint. Then, I went to BaseCamp and created a waypoint and plugged in the exact coordinates. When done, the BC waypoint appears approximately 100`west from the shore of the pond.

My gut tells me that the coordinates from Google Earth are accurate as I zoomed in as far as I could. Why wouldn't the waypoint in BC appear on the pond's edge, as it does in GE, rather than ~100' west from shore?

I'm using BC and have located marked a waypoint on the southern end of a pond. When I click on the UTM coordinates has 6 digits in the easting coordinate and 7 digits in the northing coordinate. 

When I go to my eTrex30 to enter the waypoint, it's looking for seven numbers for each whereas the easting coordinate has only 6 digits.

In Basecamp, I checked under Options and I did reset it the coordinates to be UTM and NAD27 CONUS.

Am I misinterpreting something?

Hi folks.  I recently got an eTrex30 and love it.  I've been able to use BaseCamp and that's great.

Most of the people polled in my hiking club have their GPS unit and mapping software set to UTM rather than Lat/Long.

Question - Which position grid do you folks suggest? I live in the Northeast part of the US if that makes any difference.

Hi Folks. 

I'm trying to download the New York Topo to BaseCamp.  My first hurdle was the 64-bit message. I think I got past that by installing a workaround from a link provided by Boyd (Thanks Boyd). The NY Topo did download is a bunch of files are in a subdirectory called "NYTopo11".

For the life of me, I can not get baseCamp to read it or get the files in that subdirectory to associate with BaseCamp.

Any suggestions?