Incorrect position

Thanks Frank that worked!!

You still need a GPS signal from some device, connected, so any change in position will track as intended, as Bigfish mentioned.

Yes, RMD (and Bigfish), that's correct, but the OP has said it's a PC, not a laptop, so I presume it is desk-bound and unlikely to change position until the next house move. LOL

Cheers

Frank P
I understand that for a PC, but is there any point to having that location register correctly if never moving?

RMD,

You'd have to ask the OP that question. There are times when it is handy and times when it is irrelevant.

For some of what I do in Traveller it is relevant. At other times it is not. It is easy to disable the default centering so you can customise Traveller's behaviour to suit your purposes.

And seeing that a laptop is a mobile PC, having the ability to set the default location to present position, wherever that happens to be on your travels, is probably useful if planning next day's route.

Cheers

If it is a portable PC / laptop then ok, makes sense then.

My w10 notebook has that sort of problem too and it is frustrating when doing any sort of route planning as ExplorOz really doesn't cope well when a GPS fix is not accurate let alone missing (even if you update your default position). In my case a message keeps flashing irritably and covers the lower centre status area of the program's window. I would be happy to buy a GPS if I knew it was properly supported but every link I followed a year ago came to a dead end as it turns out that Microsoft had not properly supported any external GPS devices for the Windows v10 "Location Services" that ExplorOz uses, leading to some dodgy workarounds.

Perhaps I will start a new thread to see if things have improved in the last year or so in this regard? David does seem to have made many improvements to his program in that time.

Jim,

Check this page.

From that page:

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Windows 10 devices will need configuration of the GPS as a Windows GPS Sensor. This is not possible without installing a tool such as GPS Complete (free download from https://www.gpssensordrivers.com/).
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I have tried that for the exercise. It took a bit of fiddling about, but I have made Traveller's (and OziExplorer's) moving maps work on both my Win10 PC and my Win10 laptop. (Well the map didn't move much on my PC :-) but the annoying "poor GPS signal" popup went away.)

Stephen L has written on his blog how to set up a Bad Elf external gps for a Windows machine here.

Thanks Frank, Warren and Stephen L!

It's off to the Internet for me to find a bad elf . . .
a$237 at Amazon Australia ($300 elswhere), WOW! that is expensive, but it is a 2.5m accuracy model so I could pressume it is better in other ways as well? Manual is dated 2012 and no mention of Windows being supported (all Apple).
It seems very reluctant to mention Windows anywhere. I did find that it is mentioned here https://bad-elf.com/pages/be-gps-2200-detail. The later model (with a simple + sign after Pro) is ~$100 dearer but same applies.

Did you buy one too Warren? Happy with it?
Thanks again
Jim

Hi Jim, no I don't have one yet. I am thinking of using our iPad mini as a replacement for an inadequate Android tablet. To get a tablet with >=4GB ram it now has to be 10" which does not suit my setup. The iPad is a Wi-Fi only device so no gps. Hence the need for an external gps.

I've pretty much decided that it is better to go with the flow and as we have never bought any sort of tablet, maybe now is the time, and the $$ for a GPS can go towards a model with a GPS built in. Will carefully measure up the cab and see what size makes sense tomorrow, and then take the plunge. The robust RAM-Mount post assembly-of-bits can swing from side to side which suits us well too.

Jim

Jim,

If you've never really used a tablet before you may be surprised at how easy it is to do routine daily stuff on it that you would otherwise maybe do on a laptop or PC, be it Windows or Mac.

It won't replace said PC entirely, but if you choose wisely so it integrates readily with your phone you will find handling photos, social media if that is your bent, internet, email, etc will be just as easy on a tablet as a laptop or PC.

An inexpensive Bluetooth keyboard would be a recommended addition. Much easier than typing on a virtual keyboard.

It's true.
Managed to avoid them until now!
Always enjoyed fast Windows computers; and being away from the Internet . . . or perhaps, not letting myself get too dependant on the Internet for anything serious.

This has been particularly rewarding 'out bush' where all my utilities tend to just keep working.
Windows 10 has put an end to that philosophy however . . . I detest the way that it is always 'updating' and yet never advises how I am any better off for the damn inconvenience.

Jim

I agree Jim.

I dislike the look and feel of Win10, much prefer Win7. I have legacy programs that used to look great in Win7 but look crappy in Win10. I don't need the bling, bells and whistles of Office 365 - much prefer the legit copy of Office 2007 Enterprise that I have. Trying to make Outlook 2007 work properly on my Win10 laptop has been a trial of endurance, but I have beaten the %^&&*(s.

I subscribe to a Windows newsletter. Every month they issue a DEFCON alert - switch off Win10 updates until every other sucker has suffered the rollout, have MS fix the issues, then 3 or 4 weeks later allow the update when it's safe.

Did you know you can defer updates by about a month in Settings.

Also, if you set your PC's internet to "Metered", Windows Update will not push big updates through to you for fear of you incurring a cost without being given the choice to accept it. It's a handy stalling tactic.

Cheers

Ha ha . . . all great points Frank :-)

I'm pretty sure that I have all settings as conservative as possible, but had not thought of the "metered" idea.

To be fair I have not had any bad updates come through (probably my settings are ok) but I love the ability to leave things half done on my desktop until an appropriate time to attend to them - a sort of lazy mans to do list . . .

Finding the computer has rebooted overnight throws me in a spin. Thankfully I have lost work often enough to now being a frequent saver . . . but the ordasity of m$ thinking that they have that right is beweildering.

Reading the T&Cs on installation is enough to disgust any one if they could wade through it (the bad stuff is usually near the end). They claim the right to send every keystroke to their servers!! And want to have a copy of every thing on the clipboard to be able to peruse, store, search across, etc.

But that is the reason that we sorts head bush! ;-)