Your opinion is absolutely valued. Just trying to generate some healthy discussion.<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:31 PM, ShadowAce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://shadowace.az">shadowace.az</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">One persons opinion is that of the wind..<br>
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Mine was only a drifting suggestion placed out to pass along before<br>
it fades to nothing..<br>
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Now it is gone.<br>
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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Mark Fleming <<a href="mailto:mrkfleming@gmail.com">mrkfleming@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> That would be one option. The limitation I see with that is that what<br>
> Moun10bike has done is create a map overlay of trails for the Northwest. So,<br>
> it can be loaded on the same media as your topo maps, City Navigator, or<br>
> whatever. The downside is that if you want to upgrade to the latest version<br>
> of the trails overlay, you have to rebuild the maps on your card.<br>
><br>
> Mark<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:42 PM, ShadowAce <<a href="http://shadowace.az" target="_blank">shadowace.az</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/maps/view/1/" target="_blank">http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/maps/view/1/</a><br>
>><br>
>> Provide your Trails tracks to him and he will incorporate it into the<br>
>> Topographic map data.. I think this is much more useful then a set of<br>
>> tracks that I have to update and remember to grab before leaving for a<br>
>> trip. If the trails are on the map I no longer have the limit of only<br>
>> X number of tracks in a GPSr.<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Mark Fleming <<a href="mailto:mrkfleming@gmail.com">mrkfleming@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> > Hi,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I'm a geocacher from Oro Valley, AZ, currently living in Seattle, WA,<br>
>> > but<br>
>> > moving back to Oro Valley in December. I've been up here on a temporary<br>
>> > assignment with my company, and it was while I was up here that I<br>
>> > started<br>
>> > geocaching. One of the uber cachers in the area, Moun10bike, has an<br>
>> > amazing<br>
>> > project going called Northwest Trails, that I would like to replicate in<br>
>> > the<br>
>> > southwest if it doesn't already exists. Moun10bike has this to say about<br>
>> > his<br>
>> > project (<a href="http://www.switchbacks.com/maps/NW_Trails.html" target="_blank">http://www.switchbacks.com/maps/NW_Trails.html</a>):<br>
>> ><br>
>> > "In short, Northwest Trails is a mapset of trails designed for upload to<br>
>> > any<br>
>> > map-enabled Garmin GPS receiver. It is more than just a mapset, though;<br>
>> > it<br>
>> > is also a community effort initiated to record and collect GPS data for<br>
>> > trails in the Northwest (Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming,<br>
>> > British Columbia and Alaska) and provide that data for general public<br>
>> > use."<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I'm proposing doing the same thing for the southwest portion of the<br>
>> > United<br>
>> > States, which is defined on the web as "the southwestern region of the<br>
>> > United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada,<br>
>> > California, and sometimes Utah and Colorad." Since this listserv is for<br>
>> > Arizona, and since I'll be living back there soon, I'd like to start<br>
>> > there.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Is this an interesting idea to anybody? Is this already underway<br>
>> > somewhere?<br>
>> > If people find it interesting, and it's not already underway, I'd like<br>
>> > to<br>
>> > start collecting tracks for inclusion. Let me know what you think!<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Thanks,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Mark (GoNorthWest)<br>
>> ><br>
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