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This should probably be in the mapping stuff, but I'll put it here anyways.  I have been mostly reading and using free stuff from on here.  Trying to learn (actually it's the remembering part that's hardest).  There was a topic awhile back on drawing boundary lines with waypoints.  http://forums.gpsfiledepot.com/index.php/topic,1130.msg7290.html#msg7290  .  Is there a place I can get the maps with section lines on that will enlarge enough to really be able to see easily?  My parents divided land between their kids, my siblings over 20 years ago.  About 28 acres each as they kept some also.  Parents have died, some siblings have died and the others decided we needed to get this settled while we all get along.  The lines have never really been mapped to scale, and I'm sure the corners aren't that accurate as we as laymen used compass and tapes to measure 150 acres.  I've marked the corners on the  bottom 40, and now want to see how far off they actually are.  http://www.csgnetwork.com/gpsdistcalc.html  is supposed to help me find distances between coordinates.  I have seen maps with section lines on them, but can't find them now.  Any help would really be appreciated.  Or if you could help find distances easier , or where the corners should be, coordinate wise.   I know you guys have been real good on other things for me. 

I'd like to thank Boyd, Oz, and the others who helped me on "running gps with a laptop".  I just returned from a 4600 mile road trip using a gps purchased for fishing on Northern Idaho and Montana.  I used n-route as suggested by Oz and later Garmin and it worked perfect.  I had a little trouble with mapsource, using my wife's laptop with windows 7, so downloaded version 6.13.7 as suggested by freecat with a "windows 7 mapsource tip".  It crashed also after a while, so went to Beta as suggested in the using maps/Garmin software forum.  I had 2 problems with it but with all the help, my wife and I made it the whole way from North Idaho up by Canada to SW Nebraska to central Indiana and back again thru snow storms and road closures in Wyoming, thunder storms in every state I think, heavy winds, and worst of all big cities, I like mountains and trees, not a lot of people and traffic.  But we made it and visited both kids, and got back about 2 hours ago.  4600 miles in less than 2 weeks.  This site helped a lot.  Thanks again.  

I know I saw directions somewhere to hook your GPS unit up to a laptop while traveling  to use the monitor to read the maps, and have it available when you need to change maps on the GPS.  I can't find the article,and am having no luck figuring it on my own.  I have a GPSmap76CS if that matters.  Have I missed something basic (that's usually what I do)?  or is it even doable?  Thanks for any help, my wife and I are leaving on a trip of about 5000 miles round trip to see both of our kids, one is graduating law school, in less than a month.  It's almost coast to coast.

I'm still a newbe, and seem to be missing something simple with loading POIs.  I would like to put them in mapsource so I can view them before I put them in my 76CS.  I've learned to download and install maps, but can't seem to get 48-625-MT-POI which I downloaded from this site to install.  I've tried converting to TYP files, and installing as is.  My Garmin POI installer puts the whole thing directly to my GPS.  I'm probably missing something real simple, but can't figure out what.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you. 

I'm really new to the GPS systems (other modern technology like computers also), and I got talked into buying a used Garmin GPS76CS (I do a lot of fishing).  I've figured some things out with it, but before I start putting a lot of things on it I'd like to know exactly what's on it.  115 mb should be enough to use, but I can't get it to register anywhere on my computer what's on it, and what I need.  Am I missing something, or do I just need to find another tutorial on how to do this.