Mark, FYI I live next to Oro Valley in unincorporated Pima County. Let me know when you get here and we can get together. Mel ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Fleming To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Southwest Trails for Garmin GPS Receivers? Hi Mel, Thanks for the feedback! I probably will go for it, if nothing else as a learning exercise, and as a way to give something back to the geocaching community. I'll let you know when I have a place set up to upload tracks for trails, etc. Thanks! Mark (GoNorthWest) On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:05 PM, MEL HOCKWITT > wrote: Mark, I think what you propose has a lot of value. The AZ topo seems to be off on the location of waypoints/caches when compared to the Garmin Topo 2008. The AZ topo is more detailed but I think the Topo 2008 is good also. I do a lot of back country driving and have quite a few trails/tracks saved for future use. If someone is willing to develop an overlay that can be used so I don't have to download the tracks all the time that would be very helpful. I would be willing to provide as much data as I can for the overlay if that will help. Go for it! Mel ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Fleming To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 8:58 PM Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Southwest Trails for Garmin GPS Receivers? Your opinion is absolutely valued. Just trying to generate some healthy discussion. Thanks! Mark On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:31 PM, ShadowAce gmail.com> 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 @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 > >> 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 ____________________________________________________________ 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