[gps-talkusers] Re: Creating manual routes

Sheila, 

Ahh, the virtual manual route. I thought that I was one of the few who 
attempted to do this. This  is something that is very time consuming and very 
easy to mess up, it requires a good understanding of the location and good 
mental mapping. 

I will outline the ssteps below: 
1. open up the GPS (N, G)
2. hop into virtual mode (V) 
3. find your starting point and set it as your virtual 
4. ddrop a waypoint there, give it a description if you desire  
4. go to your first turning point, but don't turn 
5. drop a waypoint, specify straight as direction, the rest is user definable
6. then turn the direction you desire 
7. repeat steps 4-6 until you get towards the end 
 now with laddar part of the route where they aren't on physical streets 
8. walk to the closest intersection and set a waypoint, specify straight as 
direction
9. set nearest poi as virtual, drop waypoint, specify straight as direction  
10. repeat step 9 until you get to your destination 

You have now made a virtual manual route! 

Things to keep in mind:  
-don't specify left/right info in the waypoint name or description as they will 
change when reversing route 
-will want sequential route following on
-will want auto advancement of waypoint on 
-rest of the settings doesn't matter 

The above route will reverse, will form into rectangular or circular shape if 
the route turns out that way. 

Currently, it isn't possible to copy/paste waypoints from one route to another 
route, once you open a new route, your previous route is closed. This applies 
to user poi's as well

I have made virtual manual routes in San Francisco using info from walking 
tours and people in the city and have done some interesting stuff. It gets very 
confusing if you have a circular or rectangular shape that overlaps on it self 
as your ending and starting point and things get a bit juggley, but surely 
doable.  

I hope that the above made sense and that I have been of some assistance. 

Kevin 


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sheila Killian 
  To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 11:20 AM
  Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Creating manual routes


  Hi,
  I am still trying to resolve this issue of creating manual routes. Here is 
what I have solved and where I am still stuck
  I have been trying to creat a manual route from my apartment to a rose garden 
a few blocks away. 
  1. I turned off automatic route recalculation, forced sequential waypoint 
following, auto increments off, look-around off, automatic announcements all 
turned off, in fact, everything I can disable I have done. 
  2. I go in to virtual mode, create a route and set my first waypoint at my 
starting point. 
  3. I then move along my route virtually, naming and describing waypoints as I 
go. I am very clear as to my cardinal directions.
  Now here is where the problems show up: The latter part of the route is not 
on the map because it is necessary to descend two  very long flights of stairs  
 to get to the rose garden. I have previously recorded some pois in gps mode 
while actually standing on the spot which are essential for completing the 
route.    I have added these as waypoints while in virtual mode at the proper 
locations including my destination.  
  However, While I travel along this route either virtually or physically I get 
the message warning! off route! If I try to recalculate it I get the error 
message unable to recalculate route or unknown route as well as the warning, 
off route message. Can someone give me any suggestions for how to resolve this 
problem? I want to solve this puzzle on a simple route before I attempt to go 
hiking and find that I am being given wrong compass directions to reach my 
destination.  
  Also, I just reversed the route virtually, and I could not get any heading at 
all. And, I have a related question. Is it possible to copy and paste a 
waypoint from one route into another route? I know I can do it within the same 
route, but when I tried to copy a waypoint, close one route and open a 
different one and paste,I got the message, nothing copied. I even tried keeping 
both routes open with the same result. This would seem to be especially helpful 
if one accidently erases a waypoint like I did and the very one needed resides 
in another route. 

  And finally I would Ideally like to create a route that begins and returns  
to my starting point without coming back by the same way. In other words, a big 
circle or rectangle. Reversing the route will not work in this situation. 
  Thanks for any help you can offer me.
  Sheila

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spirit; not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving
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