Sorry to hijack this thread, but I guess it is dead since it is over a month old, so rather I am resurrecting it! I have a Tom Tom One that I just purchased 3 weeks ago and had the same inquiry about the Appalachian Trail. My purpose, however, is different from what the reply above assumed -- I don't plan on walking with a Tom Tom for navigation. I would, however, like to have available all of the points where the A.T. crosses a road or highway. Since I am section hiking the A.T., each trip I make I have to locate where the AT crosses a road, and actually must find two such points -- a start and an end -- for that particular trip. Sometime these crossings are rather obscure and difficult to locate.
Presently, my best solution will be to locate each point using MapTech software that I own and then load the coordinates for each of the two points manually.
not a hijack in my opinion - I hadn't seen the thread
I had just searched around for the same thing, hoping to find a poi file of all the trail crossings. It seems like it might be a ton of data to compile, I put it down as a "someday" todo
Here's some places to start:
AT conservancy gis page
http://tinyurl.com/2fxvsv
this looks like a good find, I haven't had time to figure out how to work with the data
http://rohland.homedns.org/at/at_menu.aspx
another good AT & gps info page
http://www.travelbygps.com/z_links/appalachian_trail.php
good luck, please let us know if you succeed. I thru-hiked in '94 and love to stop and just look at the trail from time to time
this looks like a good find, I haven't had time to figure out how to work with the data
http://rohland.homedns.org/at/at_menu.aspx
no problem adding it to your tomtom, but not sure how much use it would be hiking with a tomtom.
thanks flyer!
it's not for hiking, but locating where the trail crosses a road.
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