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)
>