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If you read the side of a federal topo map, UTM is explained clearly there.

Yes WGS84 is basically the same as NAD83. However, some maps are in NAD27. This is fairly different. You need to check ...

Canadian topographic maps use UTM. Your settings should be UTM to match the map grid. MGRS is derived from UTM, but UTM is the correct one for the Canadian federal maps.

Also make sure you set th ...

For those in the Southern Alberta area, there has been a Garmin compatible trail map around for a few years. You can read about it here.

http://www.calgarycachers.net/trailmaps/maps.htm

The map ...

Like I said... It is just confusing the way they wrote it.

It is a 4x4 trail (Trucks, quads, bikes, snowmobiles) and it [strike]is [/strike] was closed.....

No, you are reading it wrong. The trail is closed to all motorized users. Trust me, or phone SRD and ask......

Waiparous falls is closed to motorized users for September and October, so nobody would be able to know....

[quote="Safecracker"]Delorem does have canadian and mexican maps now, with Topo 8. But I am to cheap to buy it.[/quote]

Only street maps. No topo maps. Not much use for quadding....

Best?

Get a Garmin Oregon 300 or Colorado 300. Run them on external power on the quad as the backlight is very bright in that fashion. Load up the free Ibycus maps and the Southern Alberta Trail ...

menu -> setup map -> map setup information...

And then hit the menu button again... it gives the options to show or hide particular map sets (the entire set)...

Yes, he is looking for a new site. The bandwidth got a little too high...

You can get it via torrent, http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4492135/Ibycus_Topo_2.1_-_Zip_Version

If you want topo maps, http://www.ibycus.com/ibycustopo/ You can use those with my maps and see them together.

In case you did not realise, all of these trails and most of Southern Alberta has been available in Garmin format for years.

http://www.calgarycachers.net/trailmaps/maps.htm

They appear to have re-arranged the website.

http://www.srd.alberta.ca/lands/recreation/fluz/ghost/emappilot.aspx

http://atvfrontier.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=37642.html

You can load multiple map sets at once to your GPS and then switch between them on the unit.

[quote="Toadman"]......download it to a Garmin 60C GPS (provided enough free memory). Will have to play with it some more later.[/quote]

I'm not sure if the TYP customization works on those or not ...