Hi I'm planning a motorcycle trip through Mongolia soon and will be
taking a GPS unit with me.  I've done this trip before in the country
and had a GPS unit but no good map of the country or list of reference
points so this time I'd like to find a good list/source of
mapped GPS points (i.e. cities, etc) in the country with which I can
use to navigate.  I have heard that the microsoft AutoRoute program is
pretty good but would require a lap top--which I don't plan on
carrying.  I have also heard that the Garmin MapSource World Map
program for the Garmin GPS unit is ok but is probably too high level. 
I'm looking for any sources of either amature plotted GPS points or 
proffessional produced detailed points which I can enter into a GPS
unit.

HI,
Have you tried Google Earth?  It has an overlaying map function and
shows geo-coordinates as you move your cursor.
And it is a fun site.  :)

A very useful resource is the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Nmaes
Online which can be found at:

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/index.html

If you simply type 'Mongolia' into the Nation field, it will give you
a list of all the various cities, towns, lakes & mountains in Mongolia
together with their co-ordinates.

Of course, you would need to refer to a separate map of Mongolia to
decide which places you wanted to input co-ordinates for...

Flight Charts are about the largest scale maps that I know of for
remote parts of the world, on sheets approx 50 in. x 42 in.  This site
sells them at half of what I have seen elsewhere.

http://www.aerotraining.com/cgi-bin/vcateg

Click on world wide and then scroll down to Mongolia (ONC F-8) and
click, then again on "more detail" in the text.  You will find that
all of Mongolia is actually on five charts.  The good thing is that
the full degrees of Lat. and Long. extend the length and width of the
topographical chart with minutes marked along each line.
I am not sure of the scale. My ONC G-7 chart, that you can find on the
detail overview, is 1:1,000,000, so it would seem that the charts for
Mongolia include a greater area on the same sized sheet.

I hope this helps, Myoarin

chinggiskhan-ga ,
Sorry about that link.  Here is the home page:  http://www.aerotraining.com

Click on the Google hit, then click on "product catalogs" (the upper left circle),
then click on "charts, maps and airports", and then follow the instructions above.

Here is an example of a VFR chart.  ON this one, the Lat. and Long.
lines with miinute hashmarks are about the least apparent information.
 ON charts for Mongolia, they will be much more dominant.

http://aero.nrcan.gc.ca/jpeg/vnc.jpg

Google will tell you it can't find the site, but click on the first
underlined repetition and it will bring you straight to the chart  (I
hope, it did for me.)

I hope you are delighted.  Myoarin

Thanks these suggestions are all helpful.  The getty site turned out
to be exactly what I needed.

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