I have an idea that may or may not be practical, but I'm wondering whether other Paddlewisenheimers would be interested in some sort of organized way of exchanging waypoints for seakayaking. For example, I've got a fair collection of waypoints in Clayoquot Sound, Desolation Sound and the Broken Islands for things like launching sites, camps and points of interest. I'm not sure what the best way would be to manage and access all this (I'm just the "idea" guy, after all). One option is to have a list member (such as me) volunteer to be the "Waypoint Keeper" and when someone's getting ready to explore an area, he or she sends a request to the Keeper to see if anyone has submitted waypoints for the area of interest. If there's a "modest" interest for this, the whole collection might fit within the typical 500 waypoint limit used for many GPSs and the keeper could just email the whole database to an interested Paddlewiser. If there's more than a modest interest (more than 500 waypoints), perhaps they could be organized by geographical region (such as British Columbia) or even a narrower region (such as Clayoquot Sound). In this case, it may work best to have different waypoint keepers for certain regions, however we would want to define this. As most GPS users know, there are a variety of formats for communicating GPS data, so there'd probably have to be some consensus on what format to use. I use the generically named "GPS Utility" program ( http://www.gpsu.co.uk) to store my GPS data on my computer (since the basic version is free, works well with my eTrex, and allows 3-point map calibration), but I know there are several other systems such as Ossie Explorer (sp?) available. I believe most of these seem to communicate fairly well with each other. What do you think? Evan Dallas Woodinville, Washington *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri May 24 2002 - 12:48:21 PDT
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