AZ and CO Land Ownership Maps for Garmin GPS Units

Fursniper

Fursniper

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Land ownership maps for AZ and CO are available for your Garmin GPS unit as a transparent overlay to your topo maps to display Private, State, Federal Lands, and Indian Reservations. The software is free and is installed into your GPS unit using the Garmin Mapsource program. The website link is http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/maps/view/247. I have tried it in my GPS unit and found it works great with the Garmin Mapsource TOPO US 2008 software or the free 24K topo maps from gpsfiledepot.com.

This software allows you to see where private lands are with your GPS unit so you are not trespassing or help determine if State Trust Land was wrongfully posted and locked up. This is a must have item for anybody using topo map software in their Garmin GPS units for AZ and CO.

Hopefully, it will become available for more states soon.
 
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which GPS unit do you prefer? i'm looking to get one but there are so many on the market to decide. it is not that i'm afraid of getting lost, but ideally just like your post to know what land i am on. thanx in advance
 
Roadkill 46,

My preference is the Garmin e-trex VISTA HCx with a 2GB micro SD card to install topo maps. Internally, it has the same GPS functions as the Map 60's and Map 76's at a much cheaper price. Cheapest vendor I found is www.pcnation.com for the GPS unit (about $185) and cheapest vendor for micro SD cards is www.meritline.com (about $5) and both have free shipping. I also use this e-trex in my vehicle and power it with a cigarette lighter to USB port adaptor to save on AA batteries. I use freeware topo maps from www.gpsfiledepot.com which are better maps than what Garmin sells so there is no software cost. I like the small size, but you might want a larger screen depending on your preferences. If you want a GPS for carrying in your backpack and to mark calling stands in the field, this is the way to go. If you want a GPS for your vehicle, go with a Garmin Nuvi, but get one with a micro SD card slot so you can also program it with free topo maps and use it for both highway and back country use. I am not familiar with all the different Nuvi models so need to ask others about them. Hope this helps.
 
Fursniper, thanks so much for posting this. I have been painstakingly (hope thats right) looking for softwear that will show public land on my Garmin Vista for a while. I have called Garmin and they don't expect to have anything like this for quite a while. The only two things I have found simular to this is Delorme (which you have to buy their GPS) and a $124 mini SD. I have Mapsource 2008 Topo, so now I just need to figure out how to do the over lay. Any advice you could send my way on how to do the overlay would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again
 
I wish and wonder if they will come out with those over lays for other states. I have hunted , and plan on hunting again next year, deer in Wyoming. Everybody there uses BLM maps. They show what is BLM (of course),private land, National Forest, State lands, and they have topo elevation contour lines. I looked into getting BLM maps on GPS units, but it is unavailable. This might be the answer.
Alec
 
Alec, I produce maps like this for many states. They go above and beyond the free maps listed above as they have to be seen to be believed. You can see a list of features at the site listed below. The states currently covered and growing every day include:

North Dakota
Minnesota
Montana
Wyoming
New Mexico

These maps are more than just hunting maps, they are an outdoorsman map. Some people like to call them a BLM map on steroids live on your GPS. http://www.koutdoorproducts.com
 
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Hey Kirsch sorry I'm getting back to you so late. Your product looks really good, and reasonably priced. Does it show city streets, and all the different of 2 track roads that the blm maps show ? thankyou alec
 
Originally Posted By: platapus.....I have Mapsource 2008 Topo, so now I just need to figure out how to do the over lay. Any advice you could send my way on how to do the overlay would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again

Download the western land ownership overlay to your computer from this link http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/maps/view/247/. Then open your Mapsource 2008 Topo US program and include the land ownership quad in the list of map quads when you create a new topo map set. The instructions for how to do this are at http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-to-load-maps-on-my-garmin-gps-unit
 
Alec,

I have all the roads from the Tiger data set from 2006 plus a few extra I was able to pull. There is no product that will get you on public land and know exactly where you are including locations of rivers, trails, roads, public land, and it also includes the section lines and township, range, and section number for quick reference to PLAT books as well.

I can't imagine going predator hunting or any type of hunting without one of these.

All you have to do is insert this into your GPS and you are done.
 
I have the Wyoming map from Kirsch and have to say they are very nice. I have only used them a couple times so far, but am very imopressed. Shows State, BLM, and private land as well as seasonal streams and two tracks. Very nice for coyote setups.
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does anyone know where to get the PLAT books for Colorado? I have heard that they show everything and landowner contact info??
 
Not sure about the whole state, but a lot of the counties will have that information on a GIS web. I recommend doing a Google search on the county and "GIS", or check on your specific county assesors web site. Sometimes they will host or link to it also...
 
I have a Garmin Rhino 130. Thier website says it will hold 24MB of downloable information, but I can't get it to take anything. And I had to buy a $40 cord to adapt their cord to my computer, it seems my "old" computer was too new to use there nine pin cord!

AND! Garmin wants $60 bucks for the only style cord they sell to adapt to there GPS units.....You'd think they would have something that would go to a USB port or something. NOBODY makes anything for a 9 pin adaptor anymore.
 
I picked up the Kirsch 10 western state chip and it is great. I spent two weeks in MT bird hunting and it was extremely helpful we were able to take our BLM maps out in the tent at nigt and fiqure out a rough route and it was super easy to find the spots with the GPS and it gave much better definition to property lines. I'm leaving in 10 days to hunt in Utah, NM(the HUNT) and possibly in CO or AZ on the way back. Having everyting on the same chip is nice.

I have the Washington one also and have found some duck hunting lands I didn't know about.
 
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