[Az-Geocaching] Az-Geocaching Digest, Vol 143, Issue 4

Fri May 8 12:17:53 CDT 2009

Thanks for posting this AZTech. I've been voting with no problems or 
related spam.

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>    1. Re: Greater Outdoors Project grant - Vote for the Arizona
>       Trail! (AZcachemeister)
>    2. OpenStreetMap, mapping party and training (Brian Cluff)
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> Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 15:04:25 -0700
> From: AZcachemeister <azcachemeister at getnet.net>
> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Greater Outdoors Project grant - Vote for
> 	the Arizona Trail!
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> I would love to vote for the local project, but:
> 1) Message delivery failed.
> 2) I don't feel like giving up my private information to the website to 
> enable my voting ( I get PLENTY of spam as it is) <cue music from Monty 
> Python SPAM skit>.
>
> ACM
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> AZTech wrote:
>   
>> Since many of us have hiked along portions of the Arizona Trail at 
>> least once during our caching adventures, I thought the following may 
>> be of interest to the list:
>>
>> The Arizona Trail is one of five finalists to win the Greater Outdoors 
>> Project grant.  You can help the Arizona Trail win by voting online 
>> (http://www.greateroutdoorsproject.com/vote
>> ) or texting the word "trail" to 39668 every day until midnight ET on 
>> May 31, 2009.  The organization that receives the greatest number of 
>> votes will be awarded a $50,000 grant and be featured in an upcoming 
>> Redwood Creek advertising campaign.
>>
>> Project Description:
>> The Arizona Trail is a continuous, non-motorized 817-mile scenic trail 
>> across Arizona from Mexico to Utah. It links deserts, mountains, 
>> canyons, forests, communities and people. The trail was envisioned in 
>> the early 1980s by Dale Shewalter, a Flagstaff, Arizona, school 
>> teacher, who convinced others to join him in making it a reality.  The 
>> Arizona Trail Association was formed to coordinate the planning, 
>> development, management, and promotion of the Arizona Trail for the 
>> recreational and educational
>> experiences of non-motorized trail users. 
>>
>> Today, 95 percent of the trail is complete, thanks to the efforts of 
>> countless volunteers, government agency partners, and small and large 
>> businesses.  The last five percent of unconstructed miles are some of 
>> the most difficult with many in remote central Arizona south of 
>> Superior, in the aspen-clad San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff, 
>> and in the rugged Rincon Mountains east of Tucson.  The grant would be 
>> used to build some of the most difficult remaining miles. Due to the 
>> remote location in a rugged wilderness area, these miles must be 
>> constructed by hand. Not only will the grant help complete the trail, 
>> it will allow access into backcountry near Tucson and protect a 
>> sensitive riparian area as well.
>>
>> For more information, visit www.aztrail.org <http://www.aztrail.org>. 
>>
>>
>> Current Vote Status:
>>
>> 1 - Arizona Trail Association 6,866 votes
>> 2 - Friends of New Orleans City Park 4,620 votes
>> 3 - WildEarth Guardians 2,912 votes
>> 4 - Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey 2,870 votes
>> 5 - National Forest Foundation 1,555 votes
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> Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 19:05:28 -0700
> From: Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com>
> Subject: [Az-Geocaching] OpenStreetMap, mapping party and training
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> AzGeocaching and The Phoenix Linux Users Group (PLUG) will be teaming up 
> to do an OpenStreetMap training and Mapping party.
>
> What is OpenStreetMap you ask....
>
>      OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as 
> street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because 
> most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical 
> restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in 
> creative, productive, or unexpected ways.
>
>      Contributors to OpenStreetMap take handheld GPS devices with them 
> on journeys, or go out specially to record GPS tracks. They record 
> street names, village names and other features using notebooks, digital 
> cameras, and voice-recorders.
>      Back at the computer, contributors upload those GPS logs showing 
> where they travelled, and trace-out the roads on OpenStreetMap's 
> collaborative database. Using their notes, contributors add the street 
> names, information such as the type of road or path, and the connections 
> between roads.
>      That data is then processed to produce detailed street-level maps, 
> which can be published freely on sites such as Wikipedia, used to create 
> handheld or in-car navigation devices, or printed and copied without 
> restriction.
>
> This all starts out at PLUG's East side meeting which is held on the 
> second Thursday of every month, the 14th of this month, with an 
> introduction to OpenStreetMap given by a OpenStreetMap representivive 
> Hurrican McEwen, on what is OpenSteetMap and how to use it.
>
> Then on the 16th and 17th, there will be mapping parties using Boulders 
> On Broadway as a base camp.Ope
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> For more details see: 
> http://azgeocaching.com/index.php/the-news/93-mapping-party.html
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> Brian Cluff
> AzGeocaching.com
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