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I'm hoping to build something of a database of waypoints and tracks.
http://www.adkforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=71
There are, of course, some places we need not have everyone on the forum visit. Naturally certain things need not be posted (I have even curtailed posting some waypoints I have) for sake of minimizing impact in a certain area. Hiking is not geocaching!
An interesting place found easily by following waypoints with a GPS could end up leading a lot more people than the area can sustain without regular maintenance. We don't want to destroy the objective with unscheduled and unprepared over-use.
But there are plenty of other hikes that, especially in the winter, having waypoints in a GPSr for emergency reasons could be very useful. If anything I use my GPSr more for safety than to actually navigate on trails. Bushwhacking's another story!
http://www.adkforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=71
There are, of course, some places we need not have everyone on the forum visit. Naturally certain things need not be posted (I have even curtailed posting some waypoints I have) for sake of minimizing impact in a certain area. Hiking is not geocaching!
An interesting place found easily by following waypoints with a GPS could end up leading a lot more people than the area can sustain without regular maintenance. We don't want to destroy the objective with unscheduled and unprepared over-use.But there are plenty of other hikes that, especially in the winter, having waypoints in a GPSr for emergency reasons could be very useful. If anything I use my GPSr more for safety than to actually navigate on trails. Bushwhacking's another story!
I think that is a very responsible and welcome position. If you take the time to waypoint something you find that is interesting/beautiful/cool/etc. it makes no sense to destroy it by inviting 100 million of your closest internet friends, does it 
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