[Az-Geocaching] AZ Backcountry waypoints for download

[Bill Burkett]

Wow!  What a terrific aid to those of us who love to combine geocaching with
the Arizona BACKCOUNTRY ADVENTURES book!

If they decide they don't want you to leave the listing on your Web site, I
hope you can convince them to buy it from you!

Thanks a ton, Virgil!


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Silhanek
Sent:	Saturday, June 28, 2003 12:21 AM
To:	listserv@azgeocaching.com
Subject:	[Az-Geocaching] AZ Backcountry waypoints for download

Hey everyone,

I've been trying to contact the publishers to get permission from them
to make the waypoint file available for download from azgeocaching.com.
So far, I haven't had any luck getting an answer.  Rather than sitting
on this for a few more weeks, I'm going to post the file on my web site
for the time being.

Go to www.silhanek.com and click on my geocaching link on the left.
There you will find the file.  I found that you may have to right click
the link and "save target as" to get it to your hard drive.  I saved the
waypoints in an easygps file.

The naming system I used is as follows:

Each waypoint is 6 characters long.

I used E, W, C, and S as the first character of each waypoint
representing the 4 regions in the book (Northeast, Northwest, Central,
and South).

The 2nd and 3rd character represent the trail number.

For the 4th character I incorporated the trail difficulty.

The 5th and 6th character are for the waypoint number.  I just labeled
them in my book 01 though however many there were for each trail.

**Another thing that should be noted is while typing in everything, I
found what I believe to be 3 errors in the book.  I corrected the
following 3 waypoints. (S21603, S30719, and C29516)  They seemed to be
typos, but I could also be wrong and thought I should point those out.

**I guess I should also add a disclaimer that even though I checked my
work to make sure it was the same as in the book, there isn't a
guarantee that it is 100% correct.

Virgil

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