[Az-Geocaching] Southwest Trails for Garmin GPS Receivers?

[ShadowAce]

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 <mrkfleming at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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 <mrkfleming at 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):
>> >
>> > "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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