... Good advice (and what I do) - but be aware that saving to the memory card saves only the track and not any waypoints so make sure you download those separately.
Mike Harris -----Original Message----- From: Martin Koppenhoefer [mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com] Sent: 03 June 2009 22:08 To: Paul Houle Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Getting Good Tracks With eTrex 2009/6/3 Paul Houle <p...@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 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
