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Author: MEL HOCKWITT
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Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Southwest Trails for Garmin GPS Receivers?
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----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Fleming<mailto:mrkfleming@gmail.com>
To: <mailto:listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Southwest Trails for Garmin GPS Receivers?


Sounds good! What's your geocaching.com<http://geocaching.com/> ID?

Mark (GoNorthWest)


On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:41 PM, MEL HOCKWITT <<mailto:melhockwitt@msn.com>> wrote:

    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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