The following article gives step by step instructions for generating a map which is downloadable to the Garmin series of GPS receivers. Much of this information is available in the help text files that come with the GPSmapper utility used to generate these custom maps. Before I proceed any further, I would like to take the opportunity to give these guys the credit that they are due.
The chocolate chip cookie was invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield c. 1938. She owned the Toll House Inn, in Whitman, Massachusetts, a very popular restaurant that featured home cooking in the 1930s. It is often incorrectly reported that the cookie was an accident, and that Wakefield expected the chocolate chunks to melt making chocolate cookies. In reality, Wakefield stated that she deliberately invented the cookie.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the horseless carriage was causing a stir. The first American automobile, the Duryea, was developed in 1893. In 1903, Mary Anderson invented a windshield wiper to improve safety while driving in rain, sleet, and snow.