Trail Promotion Map Complete

Buckeye/ North Country Trail - light blue
[Belle Valley (partial), Road Fork, Whipple & Stockport Sections (partial)]
American Discovery Trail - red
West Virginia Counties - dark blue
Ohio Counties - maroon
Parkersburg - Marietta - Vienna Metropolitan Statistical Area - Purple

At this point, I've looked at what's on my Google Earth app for the Trail Promotion Map and I don't think there's much more I can add to it now in the way of event locations.  There are some more flier posting opportunities for the Whipple Section - Buckeye/ North Country Trail area.  They are probably in geotagged photos somewhere.  I can get Picasa to produce an icon for those.

But what I really ought to do is complete the 6 and 8 mile corridor polygons.  Because at the booth, if someone were to offer us a campsite, we'll need to know if it's relevant to the trail on the fly.  We can do that off-line with a tablet if necessary.  A polygon is a shape of unlimited sides and can be used to create zones like this.

How you do it is you track every intersecting through road and whatever else forks off of it out to 3, or 4 miles on Google My Maps.  Once their done, export them to KML and open that file in Google Earth.  When it displays, the end of each track will form the outer edge of the polygons and you just anchor it from one to another.  There is some possibility that it may not be entirely accurate when used in promotions for some of it's outermost areas.  My suggestion for some you out there is just use experience and adjust it as your promote.

GPS Corridors are a lengthy project.  And because of the limitations of Google My Maps, it will take several maps to get one Buckeye Trail, 55 mile section done.  These have never been used in Buckeye Trail promotions before.  But those have never been promoted to encourage new private campsites either.  It's always been general promotion, as in getting more boots on the ground.  My trail promotion plan might achieve that affect, but it's priorities are structured differently and hoping for a different result.

I have the corridors for the Whipple and Road Fork Sections.  After I complete the plan's partial coverage of the Belle Valley and Stockport Sections - BT/ NCT (three way concurrency with ADT for about 4,754ft), the ADT - OH & KY from the West Virginia State Line to the main loop of the Buckeye Trail and then from the Ritchie/ Doddridge Counties Line to Ohio on ADT - WV.