Got GPS. Now What?
Updated: November 2005
After you first put batteries in your new GPS and realized it doesn't work very well indoors...
After walking around the neighborhood with your GPS, saying to yourself, "Yep, there I am"...
After you nearly drove into a ditch because you were goofing around with your GPS...
After you have gotten so good at geocaching that you have a high success rate of finding them *without a GPS!*...
... you're probably wondering what else you can put into your GPS to get more out of it.
At TravelByGPS.com, you will find waypoints and tracks for complete adventures, custom maps of remote places and collections of POI (points of interest) data that you won't find anywhere else. Feel free to use my GPS Maps Search Index to look around and download all you want. There's no fees, no registrations.
If you are like most recreational GPS users, your next purchase will be better maps for your area of interest. Most mapping GPS units come with a basemap that lack detail. When it's time to upgrade, have a look a my mapping software page to help you make decisions about which maps are best for you.
If you can't find the maps you're looking for, create your own maps! Here you will find many resources for obtaining free map data and special software for creating custom map files that you can transfer to your GPS.
I hope this helps!
- Doug
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