Gulp! Just bought a GPS!

[Waihou Thumper]

Well I had a great time with the new GPS over Easter. Broke up the trip frrom Nelson to Hanmer with a couple of geocache hunts with the kids - good fun & they got exercise without knowing it

Looking forward to making a mount for the bike & exploring/ mapping the forest roads.

I used it all Easter weekend and it was fantastic! I took the boys around the back of Port Albert and all over the North. I used the track waypoints and when I got home, converted it to routes....
Only thing is, when I used the route, it took me a different way as the track we went on wasn't navigable to the mapsource people...
So at the end of the day, it is better to fly by wire than to sit at home and prepare a route. It might be better to wing it and then explore, more fun that way....

[cooneyr]

.... I used the track waypoints and when I got home, converted it to routes....
Only thing is, when I used the route, it took me a different way as the track we went on wasn't navigable to the mapsource people...

Easy - switch to a different map set that doesnt auto route or no map set. Alternatively turn the auto routing off in the preferances (look under the edit menu).

Third alternative is to download GPSBabel (look on the help page of my website) and use the filter functions. Easiest way once you know how too and you can filter the number of route points down to the max number that your GPS can handle (most modern GPS's can only use routes with no more than 250 points).

Try opening a gpx file with notepad or wordpad. They are text files and not that hard to understand with a bit of playing. Make copies before you start changing things though. If you get into trouble send me the files and I'll see if I can "un-break" them.

Cheers R