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

Thu Oct 30 23:01:45 MST 2008

Sounds good! What's your geocaching.com ID?

Mark (GoNorthWest)

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:41 PM, MEL HOCKWITT <melhockwitt at msn.com> wrote:

>  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 <mrkfleming at gmail.com>
> *To:* listserv at azgeocaching.com
> *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>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 <mrkfleming at gmail.com>
>> *To:* 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@<shadowace.az at gmail.com>
>> 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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