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I don`t know why Garmin has to make everything so darn complicated .Whether its Custom Maps or Custom Symbols .I Thank You for the list of Programs and will check these out.I also tried one free program that worked out great.Its called G-Raster.In about 3 steps it was all done.All  Ihad to do was open it in Google Earth and save it to My GPS.Took less than 10 minutes.It puts Garmins Custom Map Instructions to shame.

I just changed the size of the JPEG chart that I was going to use .Now everything just got worse.Can`t seem to get anything lined up.At first I didn`t think that this was going to be such a pain in the neck.

I got a couple of lake charts in PDF form which I converted to JPEG And then followed the directions for Garmin Custom Maps.Everything seemed to work out great.After saving to my Oregon 450 I get a message that says my map is to big and will not work on my GPS.I don`t see any way to make it any smaller.How do I go about doing that?

I have a few Lake Erie lake charts.Is there a way to load these to my Oregon 450?I know absolutely nothing about map making.So it would have to be fairly easy for me to figure it out.

 :)I got`em working.

Why don`t my custom symbols show up in Basecamp?And is there away for them to show up in basecamp?

OK! You guys have been a lot of help and I`m sure I`ll be back with other questions.So.Thanks a lot for all your help.

Yes I was thinking about trying BirdsEye.Now to find a place to buy a 16GB card.One more thing, Is there any advantages over A SDHC card compared to aSD card?

It`s Great to have sites like this.I just bought a Oregon 450,so I`m still in the learning mode with it.I see the recommended SD card is 4GB.Can I use a 8GB SDHC MICRO card? Besides downloading a map to it.I would also like to load a few picture on it also.I don`t want to buy an 8GB SDHC card and not be able to use it.