GPS Receiver

Hi Tony,

How long is this trip? This may make a difference to some recommendations. Does the tracklog need to be high resolution (eg 1 point every 10m) or is a general feel of the track necessary?

Andrew

Tony,

are you running a moving map program like Oziexplorer or Trackranger? I have both although I'm currently only proficient with Trackranger. It gives the ability to "trace" a track of your entire trip. This means you can gain both an in depth analysis of the trip with GPS points, altitude, speed etc etc but also gives a pictorial representation of any or all legs of your trip. The track trace can be saved and then loaded onto any other computer with the Trackranger program. I use a Mouse GPS unit on the dash of my vehicle connected directly to the computer.

Cheers

Mick.

Hi Tony

Pretty standard thing to do , we save every trip always.
In fact I always have the GPS on and recording - who knows it might help me aviod a speeding ticket one day.

I use a Garmin 276c GPS and it can save enormous amounts of data to multiple tracks internally.

While I do it ocasionallly, its usually a bother to download while camping and so I leave it till we get home. There are several programs that allow this like ozi , but I mostly use the software that came with this GPS (Mapsource).

I bought a data logger for track recording, because when my laptop crashes I lose any unsaved data.
The logger just keeps on keeping on, and I can download it after a few days.
cheers

Hi, Not sure what unit you have but mate has a Garmin Street Pilot 2610 and Mapsource on our PC's , he sets it to Breadcrumbs and it records all his travel , stops , speed etc , and he transfers it to his laptop and when on a outback QLD trip last August he was Emailing each days log to me and I could bring it up on Mapsource and then in Google Earth and I could even see what tree he had parked under,
It also gives you graph of the speed you travel and altitudes as well.
I think the upper models of most brands have this feature.
very handy also keeps your complete trip log as well.

Cheers Des.

I have two GPS units that do this Garmin Nuvi 760 with Topo V2.1 and a pretty old Magellan Meridian Gold with DiscoverAus v.1.00. I must admit I have not used the tracking facilities to much on the Nuvi, but I love the old Magellan, when I hook it up to the computer and down load tracks it come up with a great deal of info like Pos Alt Date and Time. Not bad for an old unit, you might be able to find something like this around pretty cheap.

Cheers Bruce