[Az-Geocaching] Southwest Trails for Garmin GPS Receivers?
MEL HOCKWITT
melhockwitt at msn.com
Thu Oct 30 22:41:52 MST 2008
Mark, FYI I live next to Oro Valley in unincorporated Pima County. Let me know when you get here and we can get together.
Mel
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Fleming<mailto:mrkfleming at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Southwest Trails for Garmin GPS Receivers?
Hi Mel,
Thanks for the feedback! I probably will go for it, if nothing else as a learning exercise, and as a way to give something back to the geocaching community. I'll let you know when I have a place set up to upload tracks for trails, etc.
Thanks!
Mark (GoNorthWest)
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:05 PM, MEL HOCKWITT <melhockwitt at msn.com<mailto:melhockwitt at msn.com>> wrote:
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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