Electronic offroad guide
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JK Enthusiast
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Electronic offroad guide
Now this might be more helpful for people that have websites that list offroad trails in detail (like traildamage.com). Hopefully I'm posting something original and not something that's been repeated 10 times...
I got a Kindle Fire last Nov for the specific purposes of using it for offroading. What I've done with it is to convert every trail webpage to pdf (easy, there are apps online that will do it automatically) and save any map images as well. Also, if a trail website offers .gpx files I put them on my Fire and I can view them with the locus app even when I'm not connected to wifi (provided I've looked at the trails first while connected to wifi, that way the map images are saved on the unit)
With this I've been able to save about 130 trail pages, their maps and .gpx files. So when I get to a trail I can stop, pull up the trail info and read up on the trail and review the map, and view it in detail with Locus.
Also, if you have a Garmin nuvi gps (can't speak for older ones, I have a new LMT model) you can't pull up tracks, but you can pull up waypoints. So what I've done is to save all of my .gpx tracks separately and edit them so that only the trailhead waypoint is the only thing for each trail, then load that in my nuvi. Now when I want to go to a particular trail I can pull up that specific waypoint and the garmin will give me driving directions to it.
I got a Kindle Fire last Nov for the specific purposes of using it for offroading. What I've done with it is to convert every trail webpage to pdf (easy, there are apps online that will do it automatically) and save any map images as well. Also, if a trail website offers .gpx files I put them on my Fire and I can view them with the locus app even when I'm not connected to wifi (provided I've looked at the trails first while connected to wifi, that way the map images are saved on the unit)
With this I've been able to save about 130 trail pages, their maps and .gpx files. So when I get to a trail I can stop, pull up the trail info and read up on the trail and review the map, and view it in detail with Locus.
Also, if you have a Garmin nuvi gps (can't speak for older ones, I have a new LMT model) you can't pull up tracks, but you can pull up waypoints. So what I've done is to save all of my .gpx tracks separately and edit them so that only the trailhead waypoint is the only thing for each trail, then load that in my nuvi. Now when I want to go to a particular trail I can pull up that specific waypoint and the garmin will give me driving directions to it.
JK Enthusiast
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From: Denver, Colorado
Now this might be more helpful for people that have websites that list offroad trails in detail (like traildamage.com). Hopefully I'm posting something original and not something that's been repeated 10 times...
I got a Kindle Fire last Nov for the specific purposes of using it for offroading. What I've done with it is to convert every trail webpage to pdf (easy, there are apps online that will do it automatically) and save any map images as well. Also, if a trail website offers .gpx files I put them on my Fire and I can view them with the locus app even when I'm not connected to wifi (provided I've looked at the trails first while connected to wifi, that way the map images are saved on the unit)
With this I've been able to save about 130 trail pages, their maps and .gpx files. So when I get to a trail I can stop, pull up the trail info and read up on the trail and review the map, and view it in detail with Locus.
Also, if you have a Garmin nuvi gps (can't speak for older ones, I have a new LMT model) you can't pull up tracks, but you can pull up waypoints. So what I've done is to save all of my .gpx tracks separately and edit them so that only the trailhead waypoint is the only thing for each trail, then load that in my nuvi. Now when I want to go to a particular trail I can pull up that specific waypoint and the garmin will give me driving directions to it.
I got a Kindle Fire last Nov for the specific purposes of using it for offroading. What I've done with it is to convert every trail webpage to pdf (easy, there are apps online that will do it automatically) and save any map images as well. Also, if a trail website offers .gpx files I put them on my Fire and I can view them with the locus app even when I'm not connected to wifi (provided I've looked at the trails first while connected to wifi, that way the map images are saved on the unit)
With this I've been able to save about 130 trail pages, their maps and .gpx files. So when I get to a trail I can stop, pull up the trail info and read up on the trail and review the map, and view it in detail with Locus.
Also, if you have a Garmin nuvi gps (can't speak for older ones, I have a new LMT model) you can't pull up tracks, but you can pull up waypoints. So what I've done is to save all of my .gpx tracks separately and edit them so that only the trailhead waypoint is the only thing for each trail, then load that in my nuvi. Now when I want to go to a particular trail I can pull up that specific waypoint and the garmin will give me driving directions to it.
