[OSM-talk] Getting Good Tracks With eTrex

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 22:07:41 BST 2009


2009/6/3 Paul Houle <paul at ontology2.com>:
>    I was annoyed to discover that saved tracks on my eTrex Vista HCx
> don't have timestamps.  I did some experimenting and discovered that I
> need to use the "ACTIVE LOG" if I want timestamps and control over the
> tracks.  Funny enough,  I didn't find this in the manual or online,  so
> I wrote something up at
>
> http://gen5.info/q/2009/06/03/getting-a-good-track-from-a-garmin-etrex/
>
>    Is there anything else I need to know about getting good tracks?
>

probably you should save tracks parallely to the memory-card as gpx
(at least on the 60Cs it's like this) to get best quality (same as
active log, which is uncompressed). Best setting IMHO 1 point per
second.

cheers,
Martin




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