Hello Friends!
I apologize for being away for so long. This past quarter was extremely intense and my schoolwork demanded a great deal of my time. I've found that many of the activities I used to do, including this blog, were swept aside to make time for my studies.
That being said, the quarter is now over and my mind is spinning with ideas for blog posts.
I'll be finishing up the GPS Mapping series this week. I need to get the demonstration map finished and loaded into my unit since I am planning a trip this spring to the area I'm mapping.
Along with that I've been refining my gear, picking up some stuff and removing equipment that I do not need. I'm going to also go through my first aid kit and add/subtract things. I'll make posts about this soon, as well.
So, I hope you all have been doing well and the spring is greeting you with exciting outdoor adventure possibilities! Stay tuned, there's more to come!
~Occasional Hyker
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
It is January 5th and already I'm dreading 2011
Hi all. Just a quick update here. School is getting back into the swing of things and this quarter is shaping up to be particularly nasty. I'm thinking that the academic adviser at Strayer was full of beans having me take a 400 level course before taking a 300 level one. I guess I'll find out how fast I can tread water eh?
I'm planning on finishing the next post in my GPS Map series soon, this weekend most likely. Post #4 deals with assembling shapefiles in GPSMapEdit and it's going to be a whopper of a post. GPSMapEdit is a great little program once you work through all of its eccentricities but it certainly has a bunch of those. For instance it has no New command. You cannot create a blank file, you also cannot save a blank file. This makes creating a blank map template a bit more difficult.
Anyway I'll be finishing that post and moving on to Post #5 in which I'll explain how to get your custom map into Garmin MapSource. I'm also going to create a quick and dirty outline for general reference that doesn't include as much explanation.
Another plan that I'm kicking around is taking a Saturday and doing a day hike down at Raccoon Creek State Park in PA. I want to grab a GPS track of the trail I hiked in November 2009. Of course my ability to do that depends heavily upon my course load. Library here I come!
So, anyway look for the rest of my GPS Mapping series and hopefully another RCSP trail report coming up soon! Take care.
~Occasional Hyker
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| 300 courses before 400? No! Dive right in! You'll be fine. |
I'm planning on finishing the next post in my GPS Map series soon, this weekend most likely. Post #4 deals with assembling shapefiles in GPSMapEdit and it's going to be a whopper of a post. GPSMapEdit is a great little program once you work through all of its eccentricities but it certainly has a bunch of those. For instance it has no New command. You cannot create a blank file, you also cannot save a blank file. This makes creating a blank map template a bit more difficult.
Anyway I'll be finishing that post and moving on to Post #5 in which I'll explain how to get your custom map into Garmin MapSource. I'm also going to create a quick and dirty outline for general reference that doesn't include as much explanation.
Another plan that I'm kicking around is taking a Saturday and doing a day hike down at Raccoon Creek State Park in PA. I want to grab a GPS track of the trail I hiked in November 2009. Of course my ability to do that depends heavily upon my course load. Library here I come!
So, anyway look for the rest of my GPS Mapping series and hopefully another RCSP trail report coming up soon! Take care.
~Occasional Hyker
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