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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