What's the statute of limitations on swiping cranberries in NJ?

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I don't think so... although the "bombs" don't contain explosives.

"Annually, approximately 1,000 sorties from fighter and helicopter users throughout the northeastern United States practice weapons delivery day and night at the range. Typical users seen at the range include the A-10 Thunderbolt II, F-16C/D Fighting Falcon, and F/A-18 Hornet fighters, AH-1 Super Cobra, UH-1 Venom, CH-53 Super Stallion, and HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters, as well as C-130 Hercules and C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft."

https://www.njang.ang.af.mil/Units/Warren-Grove-Range/

If you export your waypoints from Mapsource in .gpx format (as opposed to Garmin's proprietary .gdb) they should be usable across a wide spectrum of devices and software, it's a universal format. But I got off the Garmin train a few stops back and have no personal experience with their new devices. It would be hard to imagine they don't support .gpx files however.

You can also import your .gpx files into the boydsmaps app on your phone and/or computer. Just press the flag (waypoint) button to get started.


I saw no one on the bombing range that day, nor do i recall ever seeing military aircraft over those places in the old days, but maybe i just don't remember them.

All my waypoints are saved in Garmin's .gdb format. Is there a way to change them en masse to .gpx?
 

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Then somehow you went over the dams at Sim Place. That's likely.
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I'll tell you one thing, the sand road i got stuck on showed no sign of having been used in many years. My skeleton might still be there today, under a 1999 Mitsubishi rented car with a big seashell in its hand. It would be quite a mystery. It wouldn't even be visible from the air because of the tree cover.

That rented car was so filled up with sand. I stopped at a car wash to vacuum it out
 
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All my waypoints are saved in Garmin's .gdb format. Is there a way to change them en masse to .gpx?

The only way I know would be to save each waypoint file in .gpx format using Mapsource. I never bothered to install Mapsource when I changed computers in 2000, but saving as .gpx should be an option in the file menu. If you have a bunch of files, maybe consolidate them all into a single one before saving. Mapsource is one of those old programs that can run as multiple instances on Windows. So, open your first .gdb file in one instance and then open the next in another instance. You should be able to copy all the waypoints for the second file, go back to the first file and paste them into it. Repeat until you get everything into one file, then save it as .gpx.

There might be utilities for converting .gdb to .gpx, not sure. Since it's a proprietary format, AFAIK only Garmin has used it. But be careful, because ArcGIS also uses .gdb files that are something completely different. Just like using decimal degrees, I suggest that you always use .gpx files to save your Garmin waypoints.
 
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