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