GPS waypoints into a route??

The Etrex (I assume it's the yellow one) will only store one route, so there is only one route to select.

The other thing about the Etrex series of GPS is their lack of proximity settings. If a waypoint is bypassed along the route, the GPS will eventually work out that it has been missed and begin navigating towards the next waypoint. The time it takes to determine that a waypoint was missed is dependant on how far by which it was missed.

The easiest way to get routes with waypoints in order on the GPS is by setting them up in EasyGPS first.
EasyGPS will put all waypoints in order on the route for you, then upload them into your GPS.

Geoff.

Or OziExplorer

Thnks Matt- your answer was exactly what I was after. The eTrex has one route option to hold 50 waypoints- enough for most trip, even say a Simpson crossing.
Now- part 2 of the question- using OziExplorer can a set of waypoints generated in OziExplorer be saved as a route- and then that route dumped into the GPS.

Signman,

OziExplorer is a very easy way of setting up routes. It is done using the same process as the GPS itself, except that it is all point and click (very quick and easy).

Start by creating the waypoints. My preference is to waypoint the significant turns that you are going to make.

Open the route editor and click on the ad waypoint button. Click on the waypoints you want in the route, in the sequence that you want to reach them.

Upload the route to the GPS.

Done

G'Day Matt M
I have a Garmin GPS 12 and every time I turn it on it goes thru the “lets find the Satellite routine” and doesn’t find one. It comes back with a message about selecting a country. Does the set ever remember where you are? Is there somewhere that you can find waypoints, and where can you find information that allows you to track a trek and total up the kml travelled? I certainly hope this isn’t to vague a question but this part of the homework is starting to bog me down before I get to the river crossing.
Thanks for any help. Peter and Dawn,

Hey Pete, ok the auto-locate (what the unit does when it intitialises) is trying to get a fix but it depends on how 'cold' the unit is(time since you turned it on last).

If you follow that then we should be sweet.

To answer your questions, 1 does it remember where you were last? Yes, the last co-ords are what you see when you turn it on, but if the unit was off for quite some time, then the Satelites the unit was receiving from are now no longer in the sky!! So basically it has to start receiving from all new sats and has to perform its triangulation calculations from scratch!! ie long intitializing time! It will Autolocate from start up, but you can help it if it is 'cold' by selecting a country to help it narrow down its first set of calculations!! Do you see?
If you think it will find them in a second longer and there is no 'real' reason then you can just continue Auto locate or help it out by selecting country. Works the same if you turn it off, jump on a plane and touch down more than 500km, it will have a long Auto-Locate time!
2 waypoints. there are plenty of wedsites for GPS locations for famous sites, treks etc and lots of waypoint software, some were mentioned above and below. That is all personal preferance, I dont use much of that at all. Most of my travels are from maps and I use the GPS to cross check MY navigation. With that, I have a terrific little book I got from Tricky Dicckys (DS) which has pages of famous Aust waypoints, towns and heaps of treks Gunbarrel, Strezleki, Birdsville etc.
Check any good book store!
But most of my waypoints are places I have already been, so I can calculate Treks, dist etc with those as you can once you load any waypoints in!!

Hope that helps!! Email me off if you still need more, happy to help!

Matt.