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Author: MEL HOCKWITT
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Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Southwest Trails for Garmin GPS Receivers?
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<mailto:mrkfleming@gmail.com>
To: <mailto: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 <<mailto:melhockwitt@msn.com>> 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<mailto:mrkfleming@gmail.com> 
      To: <mailto: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 <shadowace.az@<mailto:shadowace.az@gmail.com>gmail.com<http://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 <<mailto: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<http://shadowace.az/>@gmail.com<http://gmail.com/>> wrote:

        >>
        >> http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/maps/view/1/<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 <<mailto: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<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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