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

[Mark Fleming]

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 at 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 <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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