theo said:I didn't know nodes turned into waypoints. Because of this I'll have
to create an *only major waypoints route* (for gps use) of every
*detailed route* (for precise distance, etc.). I've got a Geko 201
since two weeks and today I've become a *node-remover*.
I don't understand how nodes, waypoints, paths and routes work in the new
version, but I've never liked the way Anquet handled GPS stuff.
The original software was designed with no GPS support at all, it was added
as an afterthought, and as such, it was never designed as a true GPS
application like OziExplorer, which is far more powerful in that respect,
and which works in the same way that GPS units themselves are designed to
work, whereas Anquet has different ideas about what paths, routes and
waypoints mean, and so has to convert them for GPS use.
Anyway, I bought the original Anquet and I didn't buy it for GPS use, I do
all that in Ozi. I find the old paths/routes system works fine for route
planning. Good for measuring distances and ascent, good for 3D
visualisation of an area (especially with the new Photo Maps) and good for
map printouts.
As far as GPS routes are concerned, I've never liked to have loads of
waypoints in a route, just a few key waypoints usually work fine, you don't
need to trace every twist and turn in order to produce a route that is easy
to follow. Of course, Anquet encourages you to trace every twist and turn,
which is great for measuring the distance and producing a route profile, but
not ideal for uploading to a GPS since there are too many waypoints.
But here's the point I'm coming to. I don't know if all the latest Garmin
models work in the same way, but in my 60CS, each route can hold up to 250
waypoints. However, they can only hold up to 50 *normal* waypoints (user
created with icons and names). This is something that isn't explained
properly in the manual, and it's a while since I looked into this, but IIRC
it seems that there are two kinds of route waypoints, one is the normal
kind, another is a sort of "invisible" waypoint, i.e. they don't appear as
waypoints in your GPS, but they do help to trace lots of twists and turns in
your routes (but without eating up all your waypoint memory).
These are ideal for creating detailed routes without using any normal
waypoints at all (which effectively increases the capacity of the GPS),
however the only software I know of that can create them is MapSource, which
is what you get when you buy map data for a map GPS. Unfortunately, since
MapSource only shows road data, I can only create these kinds of routes on
roads. Handy for following a detailed road route (if necessary) but there's
no way of creating an offroad route.
I've tried creating such routes, uploading them to the GPS, then downloading
them into different software like Ozi and Anquet, but the "invisible"
waypoints are converted back into normal waypoints. I've asked some
questions in a 60CS forum but never received any satisfactory answers.
These special waypoints seem to be a bit of a mystery.
The new Anquet couldn't possibly have support for these kinds of waypoints,
could it? You did mention "major" waypoints above. No idea what that means
in the Anquet context.
Paul
