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Hey BobT,

Thanks for the reply.  I live just north of a small town named Paragon, about 40 miles southwest of Indianapolis.

Thank you for the reply and I will check out the tutorial.  I have a Garmin Dakota 20 and am attempting to make a map of the trails at Redbird ATV Park.  I have the Indiana Topo map from this site on my Garmin and am trying to add trails on the Topo map.  I can get some things done but somewhere along the way things seem to go haywire.  I am sure it is my own fault so I was looking for some rules or a sequence of steps to follow.

Yesterday, I downloaded a demo version of Birdseye over the Redbird Park area and it looks fairly good.

I plan to make several trips to the park and using breadcrumbs, map a different trail or two each trip.  Then add it to the master using BaseCamp.  Anyway, that is the plan.

I am 63 and don't rush in and run wild in the ATV Parks but rather just enjoy easing along the trails and looking at what there is to see.  So, mapping gives me something to do along the way and learning to do it right is a good hobby.

Thanks again for the reply, I will check out the tutorial and some of your maps.

Tom

[has to already know]

I am as new as you can get at trying to turn breadcrumb trails into a reasonable map.  Is there a BaseCamp for Dummies or anything that gives a complete step by step process for making a map of trails and then adding to it as you go?

So many times the instructions seem to be written for someone that has to already know what they are doing.

Thanks in advance for any and all replies
Tom

Hi all,

First of all, thanks very much for making this forum.  I am a new GPS user and have a Garmin Dakota 20.

This is my first post and it involves SD memory chips.  Is one type or size considered better than another or are they generally the same?

Would a particular size SD card be preferred?

Correct me if I am wrong but it would seem to me to be better to have several smaller SD memory cards rather than one bigger one.  My theory is if you develop a problem, it is less likely to affect everything.

And last but not least is it advisable to leave the Dakota 20 unit memory alone with just the baseman in memory and add all other downloaded maps to an SD Chip?

Sorry for the multiple questions but I figured it would be better to get all of them out at once.