Welcome to the BRAG GPS Page for 2010!
- GPS routes are now available for BRAG 2010. Please read the following helpful hints before you download and before you use the files.
- This is your one-stop shop for all things BRAG and GPS for 2010. This page contains both Garmin .gdb files as well as .gpx files that you can use on other GPS devices. This page is provided to you by a hard-working volunteer who puts the BRAG GPS maps online for you as a public service. These are as accurate as I can get with my Garmin software. The roads are marked, you have maps and cue sheets, and there are probably bicycles in front of you. If you get lost using these GPS files, you have nobody to blame but yourself!
NOTE TO GARMIN USERS: I am using MapSource version 6.15.6. If you want to use these files and you have an earlier edition of MapSource, you will need to upgrade here. Garmin released this version in April 2009, so if you have not upgraded lately, you need to do so. If you do not wish to upgrade, you can use the .gpx files below with your Garmin unit. Those of you with GARMIN Edge units should probably use the .gpx files as well. Please be aware that many Edge units contain primitive GPS software and may have some trouble showing these files. Edge 605 and 705 should work...you are on your own if you have an Edge 305.
NOTE TO OTHER USERS: If you need another kind of format that I do not have here, try downloading GPSBabel. This is a program that converts files into specific files for your GPS unit. I have had some success with this program and some failures, but it is worth a try if your GPS will not take the files I have created below.
READ BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD: Each file contains all of the BRAG routes, both the regular and hammerhead options. I have made waypoints for all rest stops. Also included in the routes are some fun waypoints such as city limits, bodies of water, and other interesting things that I noticed on the routes. Rest stop locations are approximate...I once had a guy tell me I had the rest stop on the wrong side of the road. Please don't send me an e-mail that tells me that the rest stop was 500 feet away from where it should have been.
In Columbus, there is some optional riding on bike paths. Since the bike paths are not in my map database, the bike paths are not in the GPS routes. If you ride on the bike paths in Columbus, you will be off the GPS route, but eventually, when you leave the path, you will get back on the correct roads. On the WEDNESDAY rides, the first 10 miles or so of each option (and the last 10 miles of the non-century options) are all on bike paths, so I can assure you that the GPS routes are going to be a bit strange for all Wednesday routes.
All routes contain less than 50 waypoints, so there should be no compatibility issues with Garmin units that only can take routes with 50 or less waypoints (like my Vista Cx).
IMPORTANT: You must download these files to your hard disk and save them there. Right click on the file to save it to your desktop. Mac users should control-click. If you open them up with your internet browser, you will get lots of text, which is what GPS files are. Save the files to your desktop and then either open them up with your GPS software or drag them into your GPS unit, whichever you must do for your unit. They should pop right up if you have done everything correctly. If they come up as .html files when you save them, just change the type of file to .gdb or .gpx, whichever one you have saved.
Download the BRAG 2010 GPS files in .gdb format (works on Garmin units only)
Dowload the BRAG 2010 GPS files in .gpx format (works on Garmin and many other types of GPS devices)
If you have any questions or you want to profusely thank me for my efforts, please contact Roger Strauss, the official BRAG GPS Geek! DISCLAIMER: If you do not know how to work your GPS unit or know how to download software as explained above, don't expect me to answer your questions. I know how to work my unit, but I do not know how to work yours!