Creating Scouting Maps/Low Budget

[billythekidrock]

Guys, I sure appreciate your responses and help. Billthekidrock....in what little down-time I had today, I read a bunch of info about gmap4 and clicked through the examples. The high-res topos are great and I found the aerial images are more current than Google maps. Maybe I'm missing something but it seems the only way to mark trails is to use GPS data stored on a website? I didn't find a way to draw trails manually...maybe I'm missing something.

Also, the maps you create are not saved on your PC but are saved within the gmap4 website. Are the maps you create private/secure? I know you can share them by sharing the map's URL, but are they otherwise private?

If you click "draw" from the menu then click on the map you can create tracks and waypoints. Right click on them and you can add notes and data.

I assume as long as you don't share the link then the map is private.

[pope]

Guys, I sure appreciate your responses and help. Billthekidrock....in what little down-time I had today, I read a bunch of info about gmap4 and clicked through the examples. The high-res topos are great and I found the aerial images are more current than Google maps. Maybe I'm missing something but it seems the only way to mark trails is to use GPS data stored on a website? I didn't find a way to draw trails manually...maybe I'm missing something.

Also, the maps you create are not saved on your PC but are saved within the gmap4 website. Are the maps you create private/secure? I know you can share them by sharing the map's URL, but are they otherwise private?

If you click "draw" from the menu then click on the map you can create tracks and waypoints. Right click on them and you can add notes and data.

I assume as long as you don't share the link then the map is private.

Thanks again. This appears to be exactly what I'm after!

[Carl]

Interested - tagging to follow.

[billythekidrock]

Thanks again. This appears to be exactly what I'm after!

If not, try Google Earth.
GE does not have the variety of maps that GMap has, but the drawing/labeling tools are better in GE. They both have positives and negatives.

Good luck.

This sample is drawn, saved as a JPEG and no GPS is needed.