Friday, Jun 02, 2006 at 16:28
Brian,
Just some clarification.
When you say "plot a course" do you mean plan a route?
If you mean you want a record of where you have been, the GPS will do that for you, providing you leave it switched on whilst driving.
A GPS has an automatic Tracking feature that will remain in the GPS' non-volatile
memory until you specifically delete it.
So you will have a record that you can download to any program, after you have completed your trip. What you won't record however is any waypoints for any feature of location you wish to "register". This waypoint recording usually means selecting a menu item, say within OziExplorer, or clicking on the "Waypopint - Man Overboard" icon. This will register the co-ordinates of your current location and save it to a *.wpt file.
The "Moving Map" feature of OziExplorer will automatically record a multiple series of tracking points which can be saved in sectins, or as a whole *.plt file and both files can be subsequently loaded via OziExplorer to display both the route (track) taken and any waypoints registered along the way.
This is basically the construction of a Trek, as shown in the
Treks section on ExplorOz, along with manually recorded odometer readings which coinside with waypoints for each feature, intersection, etc.
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