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To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Message-ID: <4A035AE9.5060603@getnet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" I would love to vote for the local project, but: 1) Message delivery failed. 2) I don't feel like giving up my private information to the website to enable my voting ( I get PLENTY of spam as it is) <cue music from Monty Python SPAM skit>. ACM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AZTech wrote:Since many of us have hiked along portions of the Arizona Trail at least once during our caching adventures, I thought the following may be of interest to the list: The Arizona Trail is one of five finalists to win the Greater Outdoors Project grant. You can help the Arizona Trail win by voting online (http://www.greateroutdoorsproject.com/vote ) or texting the word "trail" to 39668 every day until midnight ET on May 31, 2009. The organization that receives the greatest number of votes will be awarded a $50,000 grant and be featured in an upcoming Redwood Creek advertising campaign. Project Description: The Arizona Trail is a continuous, non-motorized 817-mile scenic trail across Arizona from Mexico to Utah. It links deserts, mountains, canyons, forests, communities and people. The trail was envisioned in the early 1980s by Dale Shewalter, a Flagstaff, Arizona, school teacher, who convinced others to join him in making it a reality. The Arizona Trail Association was formed to coordinate the planning, development, management, and promotion of the Arizona Trail for the recreational and educational experiences of non-motorized trail users. Today, 95 percent of the trail is complete, thanks to the efforts of countless volunteers, government agency partners, and small and large businesses. The last five percent of unconstructed miles are some of the most difficult with many in remote central Arizona south of Superior, in the aspen-clad San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff, and in the rugged Rincon Mountains east of Tucson. The grant would be used to build some of the most difficult remaining miles. Due to the remote location in a rugged wilderness area, these miles must be constructed by hand. Not only will the grant help complete the trail, it will allow access into backcountry near Tucson and protect a sensitive riparian area as well. For more information, visit www.aztrail.org <http://www.aztrail.org>. Current Vote Status: 1 - Arizona Trail Association 6,866 votes 2 - Friends of New Orleans City Park 4,620 votes 3 - WildEarth Guardians 2,912 votes 4 - Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey 2,870 votes 5 - National Forest Foundation 1,555 votes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________ 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-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/pipermail/az-geocaching/attachments/20090507/41d29b0a/attachment.html> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 19:05:28 -0700 From: Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> Subject: [Az-Geocaching] OpenStreetMap, mapping party and training To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Message-ID: <4A039368.5000408@snaptek.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed AzGeocaching and The Phoenix Linux Users Group (PLUG) will be teaming up to do an OpenStreetMap training and Mapping party. What is OpenStreetMap you ask.... OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways. Contributors to OpenStreetMap take handheld GPS devices with them on journeys, or go out specially to record GPS tracks. They record street names, village names and other features using notebooks, digital cameras, and voice-recorders. Back at the computer, contributors upload those GPS logs showing where they travelled, and trace-out the roads on OpenStreetMap's collaborative database. Using their notes, contributors add the street names, information such as the type of road or path, and the connections between roads. That data is then processed to produce detailed street-level maps, which can be published freely on sites such as Wikipedia, used to create handheld or in-car navigation devices, or printed and copied without restriction. This all starts out at PLUG's East side meeting which is held on the second Thursday of every month, the 14th of this month, with an introduction to OpenStreetMap given by a OpenStreetMap representivive Hurrican McEwen, on what is OpenSteetMap and how to use it. Then on the 16th and 17th, there will be mapping parties using Boulders On Broadway as a base camp.Ope For more details see: http://azgeocaching.com/index.php/the-news/93-mapping-party.html Brian Cluff AzGeocaching.com ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching Arizona's Geocaching Resource http://www.azgeocaching.com End of Az-Geocaching Digest, Vol 143, Issue 4 *********************************************