Grand Tour Locations "How-to"

[StarWolve]

I just finished updating the data files for the Double Down GT - I have GPX and KMZ files ready to go. However, there are a lot more points than in previous years. If you're planning on loading these points into a GPS, I would definitely sort the excel file by state first.

I took a little time to review the points in my area, and I think there's going to be a lot more false positives from these files than in previous years. The USGS updates their files regularly, and it looks like a lot of "communities" (read as: Suburbia Housing Developments with crazy HOA's) are showing up in the list... and most of them like to use a "Nature Name" (Briar CrEEk, Whispering WOOds, Bramble BrOOk, etc.) that has a double letter - usually to impart some natural feel to a completely jam packed development. (Can you tell I dislike housing developments?!) So I would definitely recommend a solid map reconnaissance before riding out for points unknown.

I'll upload the files this weekend - my company blocks dropbox so I can't do it now. If anyone needs help or has any specific requests, let me know and I can help out with creating some customized data sets.

By the way - I could have done something really slick in Visual Basic or a Macro, but the statement I ended up using to determine if a town had double letters was this formula, after converting the names to all uppercase: =IF(COUNT(SEARCH({"AA","BB","CC","DD","EE","FF","GG","HH","II","JJ","KK","MM","NN","OO","PP","QQ","RR","SS","TT","UU","VV","WW","XX","YY","ZZ"},CELL_ADDRESS_HERE)),"TRUE","FALSE")

---

I was able to upload the files from my phone (sad that I have more functionality on my phone than my work laptop) so try this link. Let me know if it doesn't work and I'll fix it tonight.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zhptnxmedmeh5k4/QN1WjO6cXt