Mt. Kilimanjaro Topo v1.7 Available

We have made a minor update to the Mt. Kilimanjaro Map for Garmin GPS units.  This update focusing on flushing out the points of interests on the mountain for climbers to use as well as the addition of the hiking trails to Meru Peak.  All together, the map has very complete coverage of the entire region around Moshi as well as all the routes up the mountain, streams and rivers coming down from Kilimanjaro, all the huts, viewpoints, water spots and geologic features on the mountain.  This is in addition to local streets and POI's for the town of Moshi, which is the most common staging ground for trips up Kilimanjaro.  We hope you like the map!  More coverage is coming around Arusha, so keep coming back.

Costa Rica v1.6 GPS Map

Costa Rica GPS map update click here - 
      Costa Rica GPS Map Update 

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We have brought out a new version of the Costa Rica GPS map for the entire country.  This update is big in points, meaning that we have added over 5,500 new POI (points of interest) throughout the country.  This gives much greater detail of the coastal areas of Costa Rica with playas (beaches), bahias (bays), rios (rivers) and much more.

In addition to all the POI's that were added, we also upgraded the topographic (contours) to better detail through the entire country.  This is significant since our previous contours failed to provide detail in the western portion of Costa Rica.  We now have detail throughout!

New Website!!!

We are happy yo announce that the website for GPSTravelMaps.com has been cleaned up, updated, and enhanced with a new webstore. This new design offers and will offer in the near term more pictures of the maps in the GPS units, a new webstore option that allows you to pay directly through Paypal with instant download of the map you have choosen for your trip.

This is the third update to the website since 2006. Despite adding more and more maps over that time, the website has been slow in updates. This new site helps keep things moving forward.

Thank you for visiting.

New Map - Barbados!

We are happy to add another map to our collection! Barbados, the little island in the south Caribbean. This map is brand new but has already been updated once with more detail.

Barbados updates:

March 2009
*Add POI's
*Add local roads in east of island
*Improve and add roundabouts
*Add lakes
*improve island boundary

January 2009
*Created original map including...
*Highways throughout Barbados
*Major Roads throughout Barbados
*National & City Parks
*Rivers & Streams
*Golf Courses
*City and town points
*Various POI's
*Airport points and runways
*Pacific and Gulf of Mexico
*Parish boundary lines

Hope you enjoy it!

Many Maps Available now!!!

There are many maps available on the website since the initial launch of it. These maps have been undergoing many updates and are some of the best maps available for those regions of the world. Please take the time to look through and see what maps would be useful to your trip.

Maps available are:
Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town Topographic Map
New York City, USA
Las Vegas, USA
Hawaii, USA
Orlando, USA
Hong Kong, China
Machu Picchu / Cusco, Peru
US Virgin Islands, USA
Chicago, USA
Seychelles Islands
Costa Rica
Fortaleza, Brazil
Guatemala

Thanks for looking into them. Enjoy your trips!!!

Working in the backroom

In case any one was wondering what happened to the jolly gang here at GPSTravelMaps, we are still alive and doing quite well. Life has been getting better since Spring is around the corner and the weather is warming up. Hooray!

We have been working behind the scenes on some unique projects that we hope to offer soon. They will be useful for all those traveling in South Africa this year, so we hope to complete them for distro soon.

Sorry about the slow updates on the site, but we haven't given up on this project, just preping from some cool stuff in the future. Until than, keep exploring.

GPSTravelMaps.com

Technical Hic-ups

Ok, this week we have faced a slight delay in our development. My home internet service went down last week and I had to wait a week for a tech to come and sort it out at the telecom's exchange. So updates have been non-existent. Sorry for that.

The response to the Mt. Kilimanjaro map has been good so far. Please post or email us your comments, so we can improve it. There was a bad link for the file at first, but we sorted that out quickly. Sorry for that as well.

We have doubled our computing power here at home base. This means that we can now create more maps in less time. So watch out for these coming through the pipeline.

Thanks for all the support and we look forward to where this project takes us.

New Data Soon!!!

It has been a little over a week since the last data update on the site. We have been hard at work sorting things out with the format of the site and also with some of the map products that we have on offer now. Things are moving ahead though.

I have just finished creating the Mt. Kilimanjaro Topographic map tonight. As far as I can tell, this is the first GPS contour map of the mountain available to the public, so we are quite pleased with this offering. The file size is just under 1.5 megs for the map, which will work nicely within your GPS. The map is considered a version 1.0, however we realize that there is a little bit more work to be done on it. Depending on the popularity of the map, we will spend the time updating the data in those small areas, but we felt like we wanted to get working on some of the other maps for now. So let us know what you think of this map and if you want us to spend more time on it.

I plan on putting this map up on the site within the next day, so please be patient while I get some other things finished as well. Take care and happy mapping.