[OSM-dev] Garmin GPX madness

[Karl Newman]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:41 AM, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com>wrote:

> On 20/09/2008 22:08, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> > I sincerely wonder why anyone in the community would buy a Garmin as
> > tracking device after (s)he is aware that the device doesn't report
> > h-/v-/p-dop. This is even more basic functionality...
>
> I have no idea what "h-/v-/p-dop" means so it would hardly be a reason
> for me not to buy one! Am I alone in not understanding your acronym?
>
> Mine seems to do the job I bought it for, at competitive price. I wish
> it had one-touch auto-numbered waypoints though.
>
> David
>

Some Garmins can do one-touch (sort of) auto-numbered waypoints. It's sort
of a man overboard function. If you have a 60 or 76 series, hold down the
Enter key. If you have an eTrex series, hold down the click stick
(equivalent of enter). If you have a nuvi, I'm not sure if you can... It's
not entirely one-touch, though, because you have to go down and click OK or
Save or whatever, but it does capture the position you're at when you press
the button, and the waypoint number does increment automatically.

Karl
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