So, I just got a little GPS (Garmin Etrex Venture Cx), and we're leaving on the Coast Starlight from Seattle in a couple of days. I was wondering if anyone knows of a downloadable file with waypoints for points of interest (stations, cool things to see, etc) along the route.
I found this:
http://waypoint.org/gps2-list109.html
which has the lat/long of all the stations, but not in a format I can translate and download to the Garmin (that I've figured out, anyway- there MAY be a way to cut-and-paste, convert it in some way to comma-separated text, and use GPSBabel to convert it to Garminspeak, but I haven't worked that out yet...). I have a program (GPSBabel) which can convert from lots of different formats to download...
I won't be able to spend the kind of concentrated effort which is needed to create such a set of waypoints myself, much as I'd like to do that and put it up for others (I'm travelling as the sole adult with my two small children), but perhaps I can manage to at least mark a few points along the way.
I found this:
http://waypoint.org/gps2-list109.html
which has the lat/long of all the stations, but not in a format I can translate and download to the Garmin (that I've figured out, anyway- there MAY be a way to cut-and-paste, convert it in some way to comma-separated text, and use GPSBabel to convert it to Garminspeak, but I haven't worked that out yet...). I have a program (GPSBabel) which can convert from lots of different formats to download...
I won't be able to spend the kind of concentrated effort which is needed to create such a set of waypoints myself, much as I'd like to do that and put it up for others (I'm travelling as the sole adult with my two small children), but perhaps I can manage to at least mark a few points along the way.