Northwest Topos v0.24 is now available! The details of this release are available here.

Northwest Trails v1.77 is now available! The details of this release are available here.

There's no current solution for this. I'd love to get the data onto smartphones, though.

The trails in the database come from a variety of sources. In the case of Dog Mountain, they were shapefiles obtained from the Forest Service back at the start of the project 5 years ago. Those sources are notoriously inaccurate - usually tracings made from much larger scale maps. Even if a trail has been recorded by GPS, though, things can change or the GPS could have been off, so I appreciate new recordings that provide better - or even just additional - data.

BaseCamp does allow editing. Just make sure that the Drawing Tools toolbar is enabled (View > Toolbars > Drawing Tools). Once enabled,it gives you the ability to insert, move and erase trackpoints and split the line. You can also double-click on a track to call up the properties, which lets you see a list of the points and edit them as needed.

It was 5 years ago today (February 14, 2008) that the first version of Northwest Trails was released! Wow, has it grown since then! Thanks to everyone for helping to keep it going!

If it is a matter of changing what mapsets a given trail should be in, the easiest way may be to snap a screenshot and mark it up indicating which trails should be where.

Do you want me to wait to cut a new version until after those trails, or go ahead and get one out sooner?

I haven't devoted much to a new version of NW Snow Trails since overall there is virtually no new data coming in compared to the other mapsets. However, I'll work on getting a new version out this week with your new data.

I'm not sure how I managed to miss that; I remember doing the work, but I must have deselected that layer when exporting the updated data. I will have it in the next release.

Northwest Topos v0.22 is now available! The details of this release are available here or in the blog.

Northwest Trails v1.76 is now available! The details of this release are available here or in the blog.

The file is hosted at http://www.switchbacks.com/downloads/NW_Trails_v1.75_DeLorme.zip. I always generate the DeLorme file and post it when I upload the other files; just swap out the version number in the link when the new version is released.

I have not hosted a link to the DeLorme download on my site since the individual who provided a large portion of the public domain data that the project started with asked me not to. It's the same reason I don't post shapefile or Google Earth versions of the data.

I have changed the code to explicitly allow PDF files now. Note that you can always zip up an unsupported file in order to get it to load.

Thanks!

The new archive has been uploaded and I have confirmed that it is working. Please give it a try and let me know if you run into any issues.

Thanks for your patience!

Sorry all; it looks like what I thought were download problems were in fact the result of a bad archive. A new working copy is now uploading and should be ready in about an hour. I'll post here when the upload is complete.