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Planning our first trip to Mexico this Fall, probably Laredo to Chapala. We will be traveling in a 40' coach with toad. We do have the Church book. On Google Earth it looks like virtually the whole tr...
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Perhaps I'm trying to improperly explain a concept.
Google Maps cannot download a map. You can only download points on a map with Google.
Those points are then imported into one's mapping software.
And I already have a map of Mexico in my Garmin GPS - which I have also loaded onto my Laptop. And I access it with Garmin's free BaseCamp software(yuk!) Once the map points are imported into BaseCamp then those points can be optimized for travel. That parts easy to do.
But I digress.
The maps that you posted in this topic can only be reached online.
And a user would be at effort to capture and use your very useful information.
Here is the beginning of your travel itinerary in Google Maps which can/could be shared by all: briansue travel map
A reader would simply Export (download) the "map" directions to a KML/KMZ file on their computer.
Click the three dots to get the google export menu at their website:
Remember, they don't download the map, only the map points.
Garmin, and probably others, can use KMZ file much like S&T could use GPX files.
Clear as mud, eh?
Google Maps cannot download a map. You can only download points on a map with Google.
Those points are then imported into one's mapping software.
And I already have a map of Mexico in my Garmin GPS - which I have also loaded onto my Laptop. And I access it with Garmin's free BaseCamp software(yuk!) Once the map points are imported into BaseCamp then those points can be optimized for travel. That parts easy to do.
But I digress.
The maps that you posted in this topic can only be reached online.
And a user would be at effort to capture and use your very useful information.
Here is the beginning of your travel itinerary in Google Maps which can/could be shared by all: briansue travel map
A reader would simply Export (download) the "map" directions to a KML/KMZ file on their computer.
Click the three dots to get the google export menu at their website:
Remember, they don't download the map, only the map points.
Garmin, and probably others, can use KMZ file much like S&T could use GPX files.
Clear as mud, eh?
