Hi everyone,
Hope I'm posting this in the correct forum.. If not, I apologize and would appreciate if you can direct me to the proper place!
My wife and I are traveling down the pan american highway to Argentina. We have a Garmin GPS device and have loaded an Open Street Map map onto it (we'll see how accurate this is!). I saw that on their website, Garmin has a piece of software "POI Loader":
http://www.garmin.com/us/maps/poiloader
That will allow you to upload custom POIs to the Garmin device. You can basically do this by making a spread sheet with 4 columns: latitude, longitude, name, comment.
As I've looked around the web, other pan-am overlanders have generated some really nice campsite listings.. For example, PanAm notes has a south-american campsite list:
http://panamnotes.com/campsite-listing-south-america/
At the bottom of the page here, panam notes links to several other campsite listings from other overlanders as well:
http://panamnotes.com/resources/
It would really be great if these were all curated in a database, or even in a spreadsheet, so that it would be easy to download them and drop them onto a garmin device (I'm assuming other GPS makers could do this as well).
So, here comes the question.. Does anyone know of a curated database and/or spreadsheet list of Pan-American campsite listings? I'm mostly focused on Mexico & Central and South America, as the resources for USA and Canada are already out there.
thanks,
Sam
Hope I'm posting this in the correct forum.. If not, I apologize and would appreciate if you can direct me to the proper place!
My wife and I are traveling down the pan american highway to Argentina. We have a Garmin GPS device and have loaded an Open Street Map map onto it (we'll see how accurate this is!). I saw that on their website, Garmin has a piece of software "POI Loader":
http://www.garmin.com/us/maps/poiloader
That will allow you to upload custom POIs to the Garmin device. You can basically do this by making a spread sheet with 4 columns: latitude, longitude, name, comment.
As I've looked around the web, other pan-am overlanders have generated some really nice campsite listings.. For example, PanAm notes has a south-american campsite list:
http://panamnotes.com/campsite-listing-south-america/
At the bottom of the page here, panam notes links to several other campsite listings from other overlanders as well:
http://panamnotes.com/resources/
It would really be great if these were all curated in a database, or even in a spreadsheet, so that it would be easy to download them and drop them onto a garmin device (I'm assuming other GPS makers could do this as well).
So, here comes the question.. Does anyone know of a curated database and/or spreadsheet list of Pan-American campsite listings? I'm mostly focused on Mexico & Central and South America, as the resources for USA and Canada are already out there.
thanks,
Sam