27 July, 2006

New Data Available Now

Our first major release of data was completed last night. We are happy to announcce that we now have two Garmin GPS city mapsets, one Garmin topographic mapset and five hiking tracks available for download immediatly.

The two city mapsets are:

Cape Town, South Africa
Las Vegas, USA

The topographic map is for the Cape Town Metro area.

The hiking trails are for walks through Table Mountain National Park. They consist of:

Constantia Corner
Lions Head
Woodstock Cave
Swartkopberge
Sentinal

Please visit www.GPSTravelMaps.com to find more information concerning this new data.

We hope everyone enjoys this first round of data and we look forward to hearing your response concerning them.

17 July, 2006

Table Mountain National Park

We're going outdoors!!

Since we're based in Cape Town, we have alot to offer here!

So if anybody is looking for any hiking route in the Table Mountain National Park, just let us know! Tell us where you want to hike and we'll send you the route, ready to go on your GPS! No costs involved. We're good guys!

Send us an email at gpstravelmaps@gmail.com

No more getting lost in the mountains!

16 July, 2006

short break

I took a week off from helping Ryan develop the site and content to do some traveling myself. We jumped in the car Saturday morning and did not return until the following Saturday night. We didn't have a clear objective to travel by other than seeing parts of South Africa that niether of us had seen. We clocked in over 1700 kms on our old car and more dirt roads than we wish to repeat in a non-4x4. But we had a great time.

The Cape Town, Western Cape map that will be offered in gpstravelmaps.com shortly worked perfectly for the trip. It displayed all the roads we needed at the correct levels and helped me to log 17 geocaches while en route. I recorded tracks while out driving and hiking and will now incorporate those into the map to give even more detail.

Ryan has been hard at work back at the ranch developing the content to offer. He has made some good strides and we look forward to working with partners to offer more to everyone. Please let us know through the comments below if you have any particular ideas of needs for GPS maps in your area. We are looking for ideas, data, partners, etc.

I am posting a picture from our trip. At the risk of being 'known' now, this was taken in Graaff-Reinet at the Camdeboo National Park in the Eastern Cape. Notice my Garmin in hand. Always.....

07 July, 2006

Welcome

This is the blog of GPSTravelMaps.com. It is a website that is dedicated to providing cheap Garmin GPS maps to use while you are traveling. We have three maps currently available when the final site gets up and going. They are: Cape Town, South Africa - New York City, USA - Las Vegas, USA. We are also in the process of preparing transparent topographic maps for use over top of your normal GPS maps.

We have a lot of ideas and some cool stuff coming in the pipeline, so please be patient with us while we get this all sorted out and ready to go.

Stay tuned.....