On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Mark Fleming <
mrkfleming@gmail.com>
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 <
shadowace.az@
gmail.com> 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
<
mrkfleming@gmail.com>
>>
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)
>>
>
>> >
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