N route did work with OSM maps tho, If you were looking for street directions while traveling. I've been looking into USGS maps, and I registered with TerraGo, and a couple other free sites (seamless.usgs.gov, national map.gov, USGS store, and others) are usable with an adobe plug in as explained earlier. But I haven't had time to do much this summer. Kokanee are pretty much thru for the year as they have spawned so now you'd be catching next years fish so I may have time when I get caught up at home to play some more with the gps. It worked good on the lakes, that's what I actually bought it for. The n route was a blessing on my trip. The screen on my wife's laptop was big enough we only got lost once and quickly found the problem and corrected it after stopping in a parking lot. Google Earth needs a hook up to internet to do anything with it, and we didn't find enough on the road to make it even slightly plausible.
My one little question, with a lot of help from the people here seems to have drawn a lot of attention, and I hope helped a lot of people. Thanks again to Boyd, Oz, maps4gps, seldom and all the others who helped me.