If you need to switch between acres, square feet, hectares, or other units of measure, click Preferences on the Edit menu, and change the Distance Units. You should now be able to use your handheld GPS receiver to locate your property boundaries and corner stakes. ExpertGPS will calculate the area of your field (and all the other closed tracks in the Track List) and display it. Your Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx will display the tracklog representing the cadastral property boundary over the TOPO 2008 basemap. On the GPS menu, click Send Selected to GPS, and ExpertGPS will re-project the MT state plane coordinates for your property outline into GPS coordinates that your Garmin (or Magellan, Lowrance, or Eagle) GPS can understand, and send it to your GPS. Once you’ve imported the MT cadastral shapefile into ExpertGPS Pro, you can select the property boundaries you’d like to send to your GPS (as I’ve done above with the parcel highlighted in yellow). This article goes over how to add live weather, step by step: Adding OpenWeatherMaps Current Weather to TomTom Maps or our video tutorial below: NEXT. If you haven’t yet added this coordinate format to ExpertGPS Pro, follow these directions to add a new GPS coordinate format in ExpertGPS. Shapefiles from this Web site are in Montana FIPS 2500 state plane coordinates, NAD83 datum. In ExpertGPS Pro, click Import on the File menu, and then select the parcels.shp shapefile that you downloaded from Montana’s Cadastral Web site. You can then use your GPS receiver to locate the property boundaries. If you feel something's off in the future, please post the coordinates of the original listing, as well as the exact coordinates displayed in EasyGPS (and the coordinate format listed in the bottom right corner of the EasyGPS window)įor the fastest EasyGPS support, contact me directly at the EasyGPS GPS Software Support Web site.I have downloaded property shape files from the Montana Cadastral mapping web site and want to place them on top of the Garmin TOPO 2008 MapSource map that in in my GPS to outline the property on the TOPO map, can you help me do this?ĮxpertGPS Pro will import your property boundaries from the MT cadastral Web site, and allow you to send selected parcels to your Garmin as a GPS tracklog, which will appear over your TOPO 2008 MapSource basemap. (Just like 2.2 pounds is the same as 1.0 kilograms) The important thing to remember about the situation described above is it's just a display issue - the coordinates are still pointing to the exact same spot on earth. If EasyGPS is displaying WGS decimal degrees, the displayed numbers will be different than the deg min.min coordinates on gc.com For example, if you are looking at WGS84 deg min.min format on (the default format there) and you accidentally switched EasyGPS to display NAD27 datum, you'd get coordinates that are different. What's more likely is that you've changed the datum or coordinate format in EasyGPS, and now you're comparing apples to oranges. gpx files use WGS84, decimal degrees, and EasyGPS uses the same coordinate format internally, so there's no conversion calculations to get messed up when EasyGPS reads or writes a file. It seems extremely unlikely that EasyGPS could be altering coordinates. There's nothing like a paper map to give you the big picture.įeel free to contact me if this tutorial doesn't answer your questions about custom basemaps on your Garmin Montana 650: I always print a large topo or aerial with UTM grid lines to carry along as well. Personally, I find that sending a color orthophoto (high-res aerial imagery) to the GPS to be more useful in navigating for the types of activities I do in the field. That's enough to cover most multi-day trips. ExpertGPS will prepare and send these maps for you, and they can be up to 10,000 x 10,000 pixels in size. Because your Montana supports Custom Maps, you can send a digitized USGS 1:24K topo map, scanned paper map, OSM street map, or aerial photo to your GPS to use as a custom basemap. I want to get topo map for my Montana 650 and am looking into at Expert GPS maps they seem to be good but have never had to use topo maps until now.am planning on doing some hiking.i also see that Garmin has them available also.i am sure they both have pro's and con's and am looking for some input so as to make a decision.if you have used one or both or another that you think is highly rated i would appreciate any advice.Thanks in advance
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