Alexander Mackenzie Heritage Trail Mapping Project
(Nuxulk-Carrier Grease Trail)
If
you have any problems or suggestions e-mail to admin@albertatrailmaps.ca.
If you travel the trail and record your track, please send it
along. I will be happy to update the map based on any new
information.
1) Garmin
Brand GPS Receivers
- Installation
to
Mapsource, Basecamp and Mapinstall (on a PC)
- Download
and extract
the "Installation File".
- Open
the
file
"AM_Trail_setup.exe" contained in the ZIP file and follow the instruction for
installation.
- Open
Basecamp or Mapsource.
In the Map selection tab in the upper left corner, click on the pull
down arrow
and select "Mackenzie_Trail_Maps". This will bring up a
single map with all of the trail information.
- Choose
this map and
any other maps that you require in the normal fashion and download then
to your
GPSr as normal. Within Mapsource, you can
also choose to include routing information, which is not possible
within Mapinstall (you will get routing in Mapinstall).
- Installation
to Basecamp/Roadtrip/Mapinstall (on a MAC)
- Download
and extract
the "MAC
version Installation File".
- Make sure that MapManager is installed on your computer.
- Browse to the folder extracted earlier called "AMTrails.gmapi", double click on it and then the "Install" button.
- Maps can then be installed to a GPS using Garmin's Mapinstall program.
Data Sources
The data used in the production of this map comes from a variety of
sources. Care should be taken in the field as some information may
not be accurate or up to date. Complain to someone else if you
get lost!!
Revsion 1.02
- The 4WD section of the trail shown is mostly from a tracklog of
the trip that I did in 2008. We drove some optional sections and
some of the main portions may only be an estimate. It is known that there
have been fires through the area since 2008 and some re-routing of the
trail may have occured. Many waypoints that are shown are for the
benefit of the 4WD user and are based on travelling east to west.
- A hiking tracklog was sourced from http://koordinates.com/layer/3762-alexander-mackenzie-heritage-trail/. The
origin of the data is not known, but it states it is from 2008. In
locations that the 4WD track above in in the same location of the hiking
track, it is shown as a 4WD trail. In all other locations, it is
shown as a trail and the trail name has (hiking) added to the
end. This covers the complete trail and appears to be accurate at
least at the date it was walked.
- Topographic data, water data, park boundaries, IR boundaries, some waypoints
and general road locations were added using data from the federal
topographic database. Road data is notoriously poor and I have corrected important roads as discussed below.
- Main access roads to the trail as well as any forestry roads that
come near to the trail have been updated using the newest aerial
imagery that I could locate. I've only shown ones that were
obvious from the aerial imagery. There may be other roads and I
would suggest carrying a copy of the latest Backroad map book when
investigating option to access or escape from the trail. These
maps do show some other possible roads.
Revision History
Revision 1.01: 2008/07/20: Original map
Revision 1.02: 2015/01/24: Major update including driving and walking tracklogs.