[Az-Geocaching] AZ Waypoint book

[Bill Burkett]

> There is no description of what the waypoint is???

Here's the text of the e-mail Virgil Silhanek sent when he originally made
the ARIZONA BACKROADS waypoint file available:




From:	az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com on behalf of Virgil
Silhanek [silhanek@cox.net]
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