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Colorado 59'er

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  1. It is a real shame that LostOutdoors is history. I used it for GPS'ing, but also to locate old forts, townsites and other historical relics here in southern Colorado. I will miss it. Terraserver will help with GPS outings, and for that I'm greatful, but the resolution doesn't seem to be quite what LO was. Hi Marky - Thanks for the info. Reading earlier in the thread I saw Yvanovich's Terraserver page, and although it is pretty cool, it's still not quite as accurate as I need. When I plug in some of my coordinates that I've verified by putting feet on the ground and checking it out, I see where most of my points are showing to WNW or NW of the actual point (which was something a few others had found). The other thing I got spoiled by using MapMaker is it gave me the coordinates in decimal degrees, which allowed me to transfer it directly into excel and have it recoginized as a numeric value vs a text value with all of the deg, min, and sec symbols associated with the other lat long formats. I'll keep checking this one for functionality, but I'm afraid I'll continue to search for something similar to MapMaker.
  2. Lostoutdoors.com seems to be the best for us folk in the mountain west. Street maps don't really cut it, and I haven't found an on-line topo service worth the money. Really need detail, best is to go to your local NGS topo map dealer and by the quadrant you're needing. Lost Outdoors helps a lot, but you still have to get to Point A first!
  3. Amen to rechargables. I bought some high-capacity ones at Radio Shack two years ago and they still perform well even under heavy usage (I use the same set for my GPS and my photo strobe).
  4. Sheesh! Isn't there something better than MapQuest for location display? Don't know if anyone else has this problem, but when I click on the map and go to their page all the coordinates get screwed up! I know of some sites that might not want a gazillion hits on their limited servers, but there has to be something better that would serve Geocaching well.
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