I now have enough navigational aids to route across that entire trail. The campgrounds and lodging are plotted in placemarks in Google Earth for Illinois on the South Mid-West Route. And I could have swore that I purchased Colorado's turn by turn guide and data before, but I can't find it. I know that I once had it because the western part of the state
I can't get the standalone application "shp2kml" to work. When I rolled my computer's clock back to 1/1/2011, it shut down my Internet access. And it kept giving me a bogus error every time I tried to convert to KML. I've been trying all night to covert the shapefiles of 9 more national forests along the American Discovery Trail. So, I purchased a license for "Shape2Earth" for $39.99. It could take them a couple hours to process my purchase, so I'll catch up with my email for a serial number this afternoon sometime.
When I get all those forests converted, I'll upload the entire pack so that prospective adventurists online can download and open them in Google Earth at home. I'll also link them in a post on the American Discovery Trail's Facebook Group. If the forest allows dispersed camping, it must take place on lands that the federal government actually owns.
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