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

[Mark Fleming]

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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