24.05.2010, 20:48
OK... I'm tracking... (which is good when we're talking about using a GPS unit...)
Now that I have a list of about 400+ waypoints down to a list of say 100, eliminating redundant WP's (waypoints) that are too close to their predacessor and what have you... I essentially have a list of POSITION 1 to POSITION 100 waypoints... when plotted on a map make a nice back roads motorcycle ride... My GARMIN 765T will tell me how to get to the starting point and where to turn and everything (through my Scala G4 headset in my helmet) ... if I can only get this list of way points INTO the Garmin...
As I said... the work around that I've come up with is -
I can actually get the list of POSITIONS into the Garmin...
To create the route, I have to actually select "create a custom route", then Select the start point as Position 1, then add the next point as Position 2 and then the next point as position 3 and so on
the only saving grace is that all of the positions (1-100) appear in the FAVORITES category of the GPS unit... I somehow have placed them in that directory or database... and as the custom route is created, little dots appear on the map... I can actually SEE positions 1-100 ON THE GPS Map. and I can select Position 5... and then Position 10... and then position 14... and so on, because the only way to go from Position 5 to Position 10 would be to go through positions 6,7,8,& 9... therefore I don't have to enter all 100 waypoints in the custom route. (Make sense?)
(here comes a moment of revlation...) I'm not sure there is a question here that you can answer related to Route Converter... It (Route Converter) is the actual application that helped me pare the list of waypoints down from 400+ to 100... it has done it's job ... so I guess your role is done... I know how to use the application to do that...
What I'm left with is a list of waypoints that I don't know how to get into my GPS unit in a way that will help me avoid the line by line, position by position entry to create a route that I can follow...
This isn't a Route Converter issue, it's a user interface issue with my GPS...
A light bulb just went off and I now realize that this is the wrong place to ask my kind of question....
I apologize...
Learing is like that sometimes...
Now that I have a list of about 400+ waypoints down to a list of say 100, eliminating redundant WP's (waypoints) that are too close to their predacessor and what have you... I essentially have a list of POSITION 1 to POSITION 100 waypoints... when plotted on a map make a nice back roads motorcycle ride... My GARMIN 765T will tell me how to get to the starting point and where to turn and everything (through my Scala G4 headset in my helmet) ... if I can only get this list of way points INTO the Garmin...
As I said... the work around that I've come up with is -
I can actually get the list of POSITIONS into the Garmin...
To create the route, I have to actually select "create a custom route", then Select the start point as Position 1, then add the next point as Position 2 and then the next point as position 3 and so on
the only saving grace is that all of the positions (1-100) appear in the FAVORITES category of the GPS unit... I somehow have placed them in that directory or database... and as the custom route is created, little dots appear on the map... I can actually SEE positions 1-100 ON THE GPS Map. and I can select Position 5... and then Position 10... and then position 14... and so on, because the only way to go from Position 5 to Position 10 would be to go through positions 6,7,8,& 9... therefore I don't have to enter all 100 waypoints in the custom route. (Make sense?)
(here comes a moment of revlation...) I'm not sure there is a question here that you can answer related to Route Converter... It (Route Converter) is the actual application that helped me pare the list of waypoints down from 400+ to 100... it has done it's job ... so I guess your role is done... I know how to use the application to do that...
What I'm left with is a list of waypoints that I don't know how to get into my GPS unit in a way that will help me avoid the line by line, position by position entry to create a route that I can follow...
This isn't a Route Converter issue, it's a user interface issue with my GPS...
A light bulb just went off and I now realize that this is the wrong place to ask my kind of question....
I apologize...
Learing is like that sometimes...