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Useful links for Geobikers                                             Last modified on: Wednesday, July 07, 2010
 
Biking sites:
Bicycle Colorado

Colorado's Bicycling Advocacy Group
Their site references my site on the on-line maps page.
 

Bike

Denver

Bike Denver advocacy web page 

DBTRDenver Bicycle Touring Club
DRCOGDenver Regional Council of Government site with great trail maps
Bi Co

N Front Range Bicyclists Coalition

COMBAColorado Mtn Biker Assoc

Trail

Central

Multi-state trail resource

Includes many of my trails

Rails to TrailsNational Trail Repository
Bike Forums.net

National bicycling message board

MBTR.com

Mountain bike oriented message board with product & trail reviews 

RMCC

Rocky Mountain Cycling Club

Street oriented

 MTB YorkshireEnglish MTB club
 
Products:

Garmin

#1 in consumer GPS

Best sunlight viewable color screens

(Except DeLorme PN series)

Magellan

Explorist series are easy to use.

Announced Triton series had promising features, bad debut.

Lowrance

Newer iFinder series use SiRF II or III

hi-sensitivity receivers, Touch screen Endura series to be reviewed.

(If they ever follow thru on lending me one.)

DeLormePN series GPS displays vector vopo & USGS Quad & Satellite maps, very sunglight readable, compass, barometer.

Waterproof

InkJet Paper

National Geographic

Adventure Paper

Weatherproof

InkJet Paper

iGage

Ram Mounts

Mounts for almost anything!

Lifetime warranty

 
Software:

Google

Earth

View Satellite Imagery & data

Free

GPSbabel

Convert between GPS data fomats

Free - Multi-platform

GPStrackmaker

Powerful GPS mapping tool

Free + shareware

DeLorme

TOPO NA 9

100K vector topo maps (including Canada), 3D, powerful, works with 3D Quads & Satellite imagery

$100 NA - $50 regional

DeLorme

3D Quads

24K USGS scanned mapping,

old interface/engine

$100/state

National Geographic

Topo! Explorer

 

TOPO software Quad & imagery downloads $25

Add 100K vector Topo maps covering US $50 total

National Geographic TOPO!

24K USGS scanned maps,

Updated street overlays, 3D

Now works w/Magellan Triton series

Now $50/state

National Geographic Weekend Explorer

NG TOPO! for Denver front range

Now works w/Magellan Triton series

$30

Garmin

Topo

Topo Map data for Garmin units

2008 - has mostly 50 ft contours

Connects to Google Earth

$100 US

Garmin

City Navigator

Street maps with businesses,

Turn by turn routing on units.

$100 US & Canada 

Magellan

TOPO 3D

Topo Map data for Magellan units -50 ft elevation contours, 3D on PC

$100 US

 Magellan

Direct Route

Street maps with businesses, Turn by turn routing on units.

$150 US

Magellan

Vantage Point

Manages Magellan data

2D/3D viewing of maps, updates

Multimedia, journals etc.

Free

Lowrance

MapCreate Topo

 Topo Map Data for Lowrance iFinder units - 50 Ft elevation countours, GMUs, street addresses

$100 US w/USB card reader

Lowrance MapSelect BLM, Imagery or e-topo $1 /unit
 AcuterraNew vendor of Vector maps for Bushnell and Magellan Triton units.
cGPSmapperSoftware tool for creating Garmin maps.
GlobalMapperProfedsional Map editor $299

GPSmapedit

 

Visual Map authoring tool $65