A Guide to California's Big Sur

Along the Highway:
Location Files for California Highway 1

The Geo information in this Web site's Along the Highway pages gives each point's geographical location to very good precision (within a few feet). These "waypoints" will be most useful for visitors with GPS devices or topographical mapping software.

Those with GPS devices or with National Geographic's TOPO! software can download files containing this Web site's waypoints that can be used with those devices and software.

.LOC File

Files in the .loc format contain lists of waypoints. Software applications that read .loc files can be used to sort and review the waypoints, determine distances between them, organize them into routes, and upload them into GPS devices. The Web site geocaching.com includes a page that describes .loc files and lists software applications that read them. Some of those software applications are free, including EasyGPS for Microsoft Windows, which I used to create this site's .loc file.

Download this Web site's .loc file here:

.TPO File

Files in the .tpo format contain user information used by National Geographic's TOPO! software to display topographical maps. A TOPO! software user who has TOPO! data for the Big Sur region and who opens this Web site's .tpo file will see the Along the Highway waypoints superimposed on the topographical maps.

Download this Web site's .tpo file here:

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February 2006
software displaying this Web site's .loc file Highway 1 at Abalone Cove Vista Point Highway 1 at Rocky Creek Bridge Highway 1 at Cruickshank Trailhead

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