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?

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