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Northwest Trails v1.62 – Fixes Trails Above N 50°

This is just a quick release to correct the major issue in version 1.61, a skewing of the data north of 50 degrees north latitude that resulted in trails being off around 75 feet in BC and AB up to miles off in Alaska.  I’m still trying to determine how that could have happened, but [...]

Northwest Trails v1.61 Released – Now with More BC!

It’s been a busy month!  This release marks one of the the biggest additions of data that Northwest Trails has ever seen.  Perhaps the most significant change is a wealth of data in the North Vancouver, BC, area gleaned from Garmin Connect courtesy of Simoneyes.  We are now starting to see BC fill in a [...]

New Releases of Northwest Trails and Northwest Topos

Summer has finally hit the Pacific Northwest and that has spurred an uptick in data submissions.   With GeoWoodstock VIII and the Groundspeak Lost & Found Celebration occupying a good amount of my time lately, I haven’t had a chance to update the mapsets until now, so there is a lot of new data to be [...]

Updates to Northwest Trails and Northwest Topos Today

Summer is underway (well, at least school is out, even though the weather seems stuck in April mode)!  Here are some new releases of the mapsets to help kick off the season right.  Enjoy! Northwest Trails Version 1.59 Download Corrected the surface type for the Maynard Burn Way Trail (near Sequim, WA) – error pointed [...]

New Releases of Northwest Trails and Northwest Topos Today

As many of you are aware, Northwest Trails has never displayed properly in Garmin’s BaseCamp software, and with the new release of MapSource 6.16.1, it was failing to display properly there as well.  This was due to changes in the way that Garmin was handling the preview map in the software.  Well, after some trial-and-error [...]

Northwest Trails v1.57 Now Available

Thanks to a project shipping at work, a family vacation, and a mother in the hospital, it’s been a very busy couple of months!  This means that I haven’t been able to get a release of Northwest Trails out for a while and so this one is packed with new submissions. There have been some [...]

Hat Trick of New Releases Today

I’ve been busy updating various mapsets during the past month and am ready to release new versions of three of them: Northwest Trails, Northwest Snow Trails, and Northwest Topos! I’ll start with Northwest Topos, since the most significant changes have happened there.  Coverage for Washington is now complete with the addition of many new tiles [...]

Two New Versions of Beta Mapsets Posted

I’ve posted new versions of a couple of mapsets today: Northwest Topos It’s been a while since I’ve updated this mapset, although I’ve not lacked a desire to do so.  If all goes well I will have Washington State complete (and the mapset out of “beta” status) within a month.  This update adds a few [...]

Northwest Trails v1.54 Now Available

I’ve just finished posting the latest version of Northwest Trails.  Please take a look and let me know if you run into any issues or see anything needing corrections.  Thanks! Download Northwest Trails v1.54 Version 1.54 (January 29, 2010) Added a portion of the Indian Trail in Medina, WA Minor changes to the Snoqualmie Valley [...]

Northwest Trails v1.53 Now Available – Happy New Year and Welcome Alberta!

Happy New Year!  I hope that everyone is enjoying a warm and comfortable wind-down to the holiday season.  I know that I am definitely looking forward to this next year and the prospect of bringing continued improvements to Switchbacks.com and the Northwest Trails Project. We’re kicking off 2010 with a big addition – Alberta!  I [...]