Philmont Scout Ranch Trails Map

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Created By: mhinch
Last Updated: February 6th, 2012 7:02pm
Map Coverage:
North: 36.82°
West: -105.25° East: -104.9°
South: 36.34°
Country: United States
State: New Mexico

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This is the output of an ongoing project to capture the official 
trail network at Philmont Scout Ranch outside Cimarron, NM. 
The project is very dependent on the community supplying GPX traces
and other forms of input and/or getting them added to openstreetmap.org
 
The map is now approx 94% complete. We are missing ~15 trails and, oddly, can't
seem to find 4 camps. See below for what is missing. PLEASE HELP WITH THIS PROJECT. 
If you have traces from your GPS that may be of assistance, you have two choices:
- If you want to send me your GPS traces I will add them as time allows. 
   Please send them  to mhinch-ptrails (at) hinchfamily.com  Please 
   note that it may take me a few weeks to add your data. Also, I would
   greatly appreciate it if you sent me only traces for trails 
   not already added to openstreetmaps.org
- If you want to add your traces directly to openstreetmaps.org, please
   go ahead!! My method is:
   - GPX traces are collected from prior Philmont Treks and
      perhaps edited using other tools
   - Use JOSM to "convert to data"
   - simplify the track (Tools->Simplify)
   - bring up "Bing sat" (at least) as underlying imagery
   - check that the traces follow trails as seen (if possible)
      on Bing Maps, camps line up, ...
   - do any final checking against Philmont maps
   - tag trails as highway=footway
       camps as tourism=camp_site
       other interesting points (e.g., B-24 wing) as tourism=viewpoint
   - upload data to OSM
Note that these tag values are very important. Only these tag values will
be extracted for inclusion in the map provided here! Also, I'm interested
only in "official" trails -- please do not add ranger trails, roads, ... that 
a conventional Philmont camper would not use.
 
FYI - I will then periodically extract info from OSM using osmosis 
and mkgmap to create the map here. Please check the "last updated" date
in the information block at the top of the screen.
 
The map provided here is "transparent", meaning it can be loaded on top
of other (e.g., topo) maps. It is provided as an "img" file that can be directly
placed on a Garmin device in the Garmin (or Maps) folder.
 
I welcome thoughts about other ways to process this data, things to add, 
problems with the map, better processing to make it more usable, ...
Send me email with ideas about how to make this more useful to my fellow
Philmont trekkers.
 
Things to do - if you would like to contribute, aside from the
obvious contribution of GPS tracks of Philmont trails, please consider:
- amending the "Description" of each camp with more info: Program, trail/dry/staffed/, ...
- name trails to indicate start and end points (e.g., Lovers Leap to Crate Lake). This
will require splitting some trails, joining others, ...
 
Missing Camps(!!):
             Upper Greenwood
             Dean Heck
             Slate Hill Heck
 
Missing Trails. Of the 230+ possible camp pairs as 
described in the 2011 treks book, we are missing the following trail segments:
1 Comanche Peak Camp to Big Red Peak. Missing first 1.5km of trail 
   south-southeast from Comanche Peak
2 Bointo Peak Trail. Missing all of trail (7km?) from Big Red Peak 
   southeast across Bonita Peak to junction of trail to Black Mountain Camp
3 Carsons Meadows Camp west towards Crags Camp -- missing first 500 meters
4 Buck Creek Camp northwest, then north towards Porcupine Camp, approx 2km
4A Agua Fria Camp north, then northwest to Bear Canyon Camp. Missing all 2km of trail
4B Lost Cabins Camp north to T-junction of trail to Bear Canyon. Missing ~1km of trail
5 Ewells Park Camp to Baldy Town Camp trail missing. This trail initially 
   heads south from Ewell then swiinging northwest
6 Ewells Park camp towards Baldy Skyline. Missing first 1km of this trail 
   heading southeast out of Ewells
7 Red Hills Camp to Mt. Phillips Camp. Missing 1.5km of trail from Red Hills 
   Camp north to trail junction.
8 Stone Wall Pass Camp, first west, then south. ~1km path towards Aguila Camp
9 Elkhorn Camp trail starting southbound then swinging southeast to New Dean Camp
10 Hart Peak northwest to road leading to Dans Beard Camp and 
   Old Camp. Missing approx 4.5km starting from Hart Peak
11 Big Red Peak to Shaefers Pass Camp. Missing ~10k of trail from 
   Big Red Peak east, crossing trail to Lamberts Mine camp, continuing east 
   and southeast to Black Mountain peak and continuing east to Shaeffers Pass Camp
12 Lower Sawmill Camp south to Webster Parks Camp and cotinuing south to 
   Hunting Lodge. Missing all of this 4km trail
13N Bent Camp trail heading generally west ultimately to Pueblano. Missing 
   first 6km from Bent to trail junction on Wilson Mesa
13S Webster Pass Camp to Cimarroncito Camp trail
14 Cito Turnaround north (via many switchbacks) to trail junction 
   leading to Harlan and Ute Springs
15 Iris Park - we have no trails in/out of this camp
 
Please help complete this portion of the map.
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