Garmin advice please

Thank you for that. Now I understand what is going on. I didn't realise that
the two tracks were coming from the same screen. Thank you again.

"Dominic Sexton" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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In article <[email hidden]>, The Mad March Hare
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When I go out I set my Garmin Venture to record the track I take. When I
get
home I download this to Memory Map on my PC. The Garmin seems to record
two
tracks simultaneously. One is named "Track", and the other, with more
info,
is called "Active Log". I don't need both, and usually delete the "Track"
recording.
I've tried setting the unit to record only "Active Log", but with no
success. Can this be done at all? If so does anyone know what I'm doing
wrong?
Any suggestions would be welcome.

Active Log is the log that the GPS records automatically. You can also
have saved tracks. It sounds like either your "Track" is a saved track, in
which case you can delete in from the tracks menu on your GPS, or that
Memory map already has a track loaded before you get the data from the
GPS.

It may be that the saved track is one you have uploaded from Memory Map as
the planned route...

--

Dominic Sexton

The Mad March Hare said:

The Garmin seems to record two
tracks simultaneously. One is named "Track", and the other, with more info,
is called "Active Log". I don't need both, and usually delete the "Track"
recording.

I did something similar at the weekend. I wanted to use my (yellow)
Etrex to record a track on Sunday but did not want to risk overwriting
the existing track from Saturday. So, I saved the existing track and
I also reset the trip data.

MemoryMap imported my Saturday and Sunday tracks as part of the Active
Log and also my Saturday track, again, under the name I had given it.

I must get round to reading the instructions sometime, but at least
I've learned a little bit more about how it works.

Judith

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<[email hidden]> writes

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I must get round to reading the instructions sometime, but at least
I've learned a little bit more about how it works.

Yeah! When all else fails read the instructions :-)

Does anyone know if the GPS 12 has an audible alarm like the 12XL ?
--
Bill Grey
http://www.billboy.co.uk

In article <[email hidden]>, W. D. Grey
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In article <[email hidden]>, Judith
<[email hidden]> writes

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I must get round to reading the instructions sometime, but at least
I've learned a little bit more about how it works.

Yeah! When all else fails read the instructions :-)

Does anyone know if the GPS 12 has an audible alarm like the 12XL ?

It doesn't.

The differences between the 12 and the 12XL are the beeper, the external
voltage (5-8 on the 12 and 10-35 on the 12XL) and the external antenna
connector on the XL.

--

Dominic Sexton

Alternatively you can have a very poor memory, forget to switch the GPS
off and have an active log track for the entire journey home (or in my
case when the batteries gave up!)

Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from
the wonderful person "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]> said

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Alternatively you can have a very poor memory, forget to switch the GPS
off and have an active log track for the entire journey home (or in my
case when the batteries gave up!)

Which is why I always set mine to 'not wrap'. However, a wrinkle, if you
actually fill up the tracklog when it's set to 'not wrap', at least on
the eTrex, it actually turns track logging off when the log gets full -
you need to =manually= turn it back on, after you've downloaded/cleared
the tracklog, or it won't log the next trip. !!

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In article <[email hidden]>, Dominic Sexton
<[email hidden]> writes

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In article <[email hidden]>, W. D. Grey
<[email hidden]> writes

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In article <[email hidden]>, Judith
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

I must get round to reading the instructions sometime, but at least
I've learned a little bit more about how it works.

Yeah! When all else fails read the instructions :-)

Does anyone know if the GPS 12 has an audible alarm like the 12XL ?

It doesn't.

The differences between the 12 and the 12XL are the beeper, the
external voltage (5-8 on the 12 and 10-35 on the 12XL) and the external
antenna connector on the XL.

Thanks Dominic, I knew about the bleeper on the 12 X and I think I have
alarms "on" on my 12, but if it doesn't have them well.....!
--
Bill Grey
http://www.billboy.co.uk

W. D. Grey said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Dominic Sexton
<[email hidden]> writes

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In article <[email hidden]>, W. D. Grey
<[email hidden]> writes

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In article <[email hidden]>, Judith
<[email hidden]> writes
>I must get round to reading the instructions sometime, but at least
>I've learned a little bit more about how it works.

Yeah! When all else fails read the instructions :-)

Does anyone know if the GPS 12 has an audible alarm like the 12XL ?

It doesn't.

The differences between the 12 and the 12XL are the beeper, the
external voltage (5-8 on the 12 and 10-35 on the 12XL) and the external
antenna connector on the XL.

Thanks Dominic, I knew about the bleeper on the 12 X and I think I have
alarms "on" on my 12, but if it doesn't have them well.....!

It's got alarms alright; but only in visual form if you set a
proximity waypoint. :-(

Still, it's pretty bombproof and doesn't write a spider's web track
like Roger's Vista or Summit :-)

I've even got altitude on my track logs thanks to Ozi and SRTM...
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

GSV Three Minds in a Can said:

Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from
the wonderful person "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]> said

Quoted message said:

Alternatively you can have a very poor memory, forget to switch the GPS
off and have an active log track for the entire journey home (or in my
case when the batteries gave up!)

Which is why I always set mine to 'not wrap'. However, a wrinkle, if you
actually fill up the tracklog when it's set to 'not wrap', at least on
the eTrex, it actually turns track logging off when the log gets full -
you need to =manually= turn it back on, after you've downloaded/cleared
the tracklog, or it won't log the next trip. !!

The departed one used to turn his track log to "on" after he had got
good lock to get rid of the spurious points at the start of the track.
I've taken to turning mine off at the end of walks as it makes it
easier to get a clean track if I'm using a combination of car and
tent. Those extra points logge dsome way from the actual walk end make
the log distances rather messy.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the
wonderful person Phil Cook <[email hidden]> said

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GSV Three Minds in a Can said:

Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from
the wonderful person "[email hidden]" <[email hidden]> said

Quoted message said:

Alternatively you can have a very poor memory, forget to switch the GPS
off and have an active log track for the entire journey home (or in my
case when the batteries gave up!)

Which is why I always set mine to 'not wrap'. However, a wrinkle, if you
actually fill up the tracklog when it's set to 'not wrap', at least on
the eTrex, it actually turns track logging off when the log gets full -
you need to =manually= turn it back on, after you've downloaded/cleared
the tracklog, or it won't log the next trip. !!

The departed one used to turn his track log to "on" after he had got
good lock to get rid of the spurious points at the start of the track.
I've taken to turning mine off at the end of walks as it makes it
easier to get a clean track if I'm using a combination of car and
tent. Those extra points logge dsome way from the actual walk end make
the log distances rather messy.

I never believe the GPS log distances enyway .. I just load the log into
Tracklogs or Ozi, clean up any dodgy points at each end, and take the
distance from that. Bad points I can cope with. Having the whole log
over-written by the drive home I really don't need .. especially since I
am set to log by distance (every 10m or something) so the log can get
filled up pretty fast in a car.

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The departed one used to turn his track log to "on" after he had got
good lock to get rid of the spurious points at the start of the track.
I've taken to turning mine off at the end of walks as it makes it
easier to get a clean track if I'm using a combination of car and
tent. Those extra points logge dsome way from the actual walk end make
the log distances rather messy.

I do that with the Vista C when I can remember but it is not an option
with the Summit. Bit of a pain when you find at the end of a walk that
you have forgotten to enable the track at the start. :-(

--
Roger Chapman so far this year 34 summits
New - 15 (Marilyns 4, Sweats 1, Outlying Fells 10)
Repeats - 19 (Marilyns 5, Sweats 10, Wainwrights 12, Outlying Fells 0)

W. D. Grey said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Phil Cook
<[email hidden]> writes

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It's got alarms alright; but only in visual form if you set a
proximity waypoint. :-(

Still, it's pretty bombproof and doesn't write a spider's web track
like Roger's Vista or Summit :-)

I've even got altitude on my track logs thanks to Ozi and SRTM...

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SRTM ?? ( A dumbo at this end :-) )

http://srtm.usgs.gov/index.html

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

In article <[email hidden]>, Phil Cook
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

W. D. Grey said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Phil Cook
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

It's got alarms alright; but only in visual form if you set a
proximity waypoint. :-(

Still, it's pretty bombproof and doesn't write a spider's web track
like Roger's Vista or Summit :-)

I've even got altitude on my track logs thanks to Ozi and SRTM...

Quoted message said:

SRTM ?? ( A dumbo at this end :-) )

http://srtm.usgs.gov/index.html

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.

Thanks Phil, but apart from understanding what the words are I'm still
in the dark as to one would apply the information obtained from SRTM.

Thanks.
--
Bill Grey
http://www.billboy.co.uk

W. D. Grey said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Phil Cook
<[email hidden]> writes

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W. D. Grey said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Phil Cook
<[email hidden]> writes
>It's got alarms alright; but only in visual form if you set a
>proximity waypoint. :-(
>
>Still, it's pretty bombproof and doesn't write a spider's web track
>like Roger's Vista or Summit :-)
>
>I've even got altitude on my track logs thanks to Ozi and SRTM...

Quoted message said:

SRTM ?? ( A dumbo at this end :-) )

http://srtm.usgs.gov/index.html

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.

Thanks Phil, but apart from understanding what the words are I'm still
in the dark as to one would apply the information obtained from SRTM.

I posted on this a while back, do a google for "New GPS for Old"
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the wonderful
person W. D. Grey <[email hidden]> said
<snip>

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

>I've even got altitude on my track logs thanks to Ozi and SRTM...

Quoted message said:

SRTM ?? ( A dumbo at this end :-) )

http://srtm.usgs.gov/index.html

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.

Quoted message said:

Thanks Phil, but apart from understanding what the words are I'm still
in the dark as to one would apply the information obtained from SRTM.

The SRT(Mission) generate Digital elevation Model (DEM) data for most of
the planet. Given latitude/longitude, and the right software, the DEM
data will tell you the height at a spot within <100m of there.

You can also feed the SRTM (DEM) data through a conversion to get
contour maps for most of the planet**which you can then load into your
mapping GPS handset. If you're in the Uk or Ireland, I already did it,
the maps are on the SMC website.

** Only to about 60 degrees N/S of the equator, and only for bits of the
planet which contain interesting amounts of land.

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In article <[email hidden]>, Phil Cook
<[email hidden]> writes

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W. D. Grey said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Phil Cook
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

W. D. Grey wrote:

>In article <[email hidden]>, Phil Cook
><[email hidden]> writes
>>It's got alarms alright; but only in visual form if you set a
>>proximity waypoint. :-(
>>
>>Still, it's pretty bombproof and doesn't write a spider's web track
>>like Roger's Vista or Summit :-)
>>
>>I've even got altitude on my track logs thanks to Ozi and SRTM...

>SRTM ?? ( A dumbo at this end :-) )

http://srtm.usgs.gov/index.html

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.

Thanks Phil, but apart from understanding what the words are I'm still
in the dark as to one would apply the information obtained from SRTM.

I posted on this a while back, do a google for "New GPS for Old"

Right-ho I shall do that - ta again Phil
--
Bill Grey
http://www.billboy.co.uk

Roger said:

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The departed one used to turn his track log to "on" after he had got
good lock to get rid of the spurious points at the start of the track.
I've taken to turning mine off at the end of walks as it makes it
easier to get a clean track if I'm using a combination of car and
tent. Those extra points logge dsome way from the actual walk end make
the log distances rather messy.

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I do that with the Vista C when I can remember but it is not an option
with the Summit.

A bit of a blunderbuss option, but what you can do with the Summit to
avoid the start-up spikes is to delete the entire active track after
it's settled down.
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Chris Malcolm [email hidden] +44 (0)131 651 3445 DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]