Jim Bensman's Map Page

I make free high quality topo, trail, and POI maps for Garmin GPSs.  They are all transparent maps so they show over City Navigator and City Navigator will still autoroute.

I know they work well in the 60CSX and Colorado.  I have a CO 400T so I am optimizing them for the CO.  I used to make CDs and give them away.  Having them online seems to be easier.  So I am going to go that way.

They are free.  You can pay me back a couple of ways.  You can contribute tracks of trails you GPSed or POIs you have coordinates for.  If you GPS the trail, set the GPS track set up to most often and auto.  If the trail has a name, name your track that.  No trail is to small to add and even parts of trails are fine.  I like to geocache (www.geocaching.com) and do not enjoy puzzle geocaches-I would rather spend my time making maps.  So you can send me answers to puzzle caches you figure out (or create) to pay me back for the hundreds of hours spent making the maps.

Here are some samples of what my maps look like in my Colorado 400T (with the DEM data enabled):

Pere Marquette State Park

West Tyson County Park

Forest 44 Conservation Area

Here are some screen shots from my 60CSX:

Pere Marquette State Park

Forest 44 Conservation Area

West Tyson County Park

Here are the directions for installing the maps.  If you already have installed the maps, the directions on what to do is at the end of the directions (its real easy).

Here are the files you need to download

This link is for the typ files (others made these files for me)

This link is for the Topo Maps            Current as of 8-12-08

This link is for the POI Maps             Current as of 8-12-08

This Link is for Other Maps                Current as of 4-7-08

This link is for Trail Maps                    Current as of 8-12-08

I am using http://www.mediafire.com/ to host the files.  I am not sure how long they will stay on line.  If they are not there, let me know.