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

[MEL HOCKWITT]

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 at gmail.com> 
  To: listserv at azgeocaching.com<mailto:listserv at 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 at 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 <mrkfleming at gmail.com<mailto: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<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 <mrkfleming at gmail.com<mailto: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<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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