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Hi Jim,

I read your post more carefully  and downloaded My Trails.  It looks much better for Baxter State Park.  Thanks so much...

I an not sure how New Hampshire lines up ... but I hike mostly in Maine and New Hampshire.  Any chance you can make that available if it needs a fix?

Anyway thanks for the GREAT support!

I can see the trails on my GPSr now that I know where to look for them, 2 miles east :-)

Is this something that can/will get fixed or is it not fixable?

Thanks for all of the responses guys.

I have not yet been successful find good trail maps for Maine or New Hampshire.  If you know of anything please let me know!

I am glad that you were able to confirm the problem.

Regarding the 'other' problem of not seeing the trails, it might be because of the skew and I am looking in the wrong spot. 

Here is a MapSource screen shot:

The gps route is marked in pink, the tracks are brownish/red and the trails are brown dashes.  I did this loop in pink but as you can see the trails are skewed several miles to the right.  The knife edge trail is the loop in the lower left, and you can see a trail for it in the lower middle.  They do not line up at all. 

Now I know it's wrong because the trail that I have a track for is the trail on the far right of the screenshot.

Pretty weird.  the trail map is the 'Trails from 100k maps'.

Here is some more interesting data, I hiked Baxter State Park in Maine recently with my GPS on and when I use MapSource to view my tracks against the trail 100K map for Maine they do not line up.  I use Nad27 Conus, UTM on my GPS.  Is it possible that the skew is from using different coordinate systems? 

The trail 100K maps are several miles skewed from my actual tracks.

Hi,

I have downloaded both the OSM trails and the 100K trail transparent maps.  I can see the trails in MapSource when I zoom in but when I select/transfer the maps to my Garmin GPSmap 60C I cannot see the trails.  I have tried various combinations of downloading topo maps and the transparent trail maps, I have also tried just downloading the transparent trail maps.  I do not seem able to see the trails on my GPSr.

I did read the tutorial on how to chose which maps are viewable and I have played with that too and the trails never show up.  It seems to me that one of 3 things must be true:

1. I am not doing something correctly
2. The transparent maps do not work
3. My GPS does not know how to use the transparent maps

Any/all advice welcome.

Jon