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johno99
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I suppose if the route planner is working OK then we shouldnt have to keep too many routes saved at all and as we need them we can pick them up quite easily from Satmaps route planner.
By the way if any of you have been following my thread about the route planner not working if the route is too big, I got a reply from Satmap as follows, 'the route Planner will start to slow down after about 200 way points. We are working on making this better, but it will be a lengthy process.'
Unfortunatly I didnt save the waypoints (500 odd) it was done automatically by the active 10. I think the problem was that I kept it going in my pocket even while I was having a cup of tea, bacon sandwich etc. So out of the 4.45 hours I was out I was probably only cycling for half of that. It was plotting me making small turns, in and out of a cafe etc. I've noticed that if your going fast in a straight line it, pretty obviously I suppose, it only plots every now a then. If your going slow and in tight turns it plots at every turn, hense loads of waypoints. I will have to bear this in mind and turn it off if I dont need it recorded.
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lucevans
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| johno99 wrote: | Hi
I suppose if the route planner is working OK then we shouldnt have to keep too many routes saved at all and as we need them we can pick them up quite easily from Satmaps route planner.
By the way if any of you have been following my thread about the route planner not working if the route is too big, I got a reply from Satmap as follows, 'the route Planner will start to slow down after about 200 way points. We are working on making this better, but it will be a lengthy process.'
Unfortunatly I didnt save the waypoints (500 odd) it was done automatically by the active 10. I think the problem was that I kept it going in my pocket even while I was having a cup of tea, bacon sandwich etc. So out of the 4.45 hours I was out I was probably only cycling for half of that. It was plotting me making small turns, in and out of a cafe etc. I've noticed that if your going fast in a straight line it, pretty obviously I suppose, it only plots every now a then. If your going slow and in tight turns it plots at every turn, hense loads of waypoints. I will have to bear this in mind and turn it off if I dont need it recorded.
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Sorry, I'm starting to sound like a real thickie here, do you mean the route planner that Satmap have made available on the website, or the function on the A10 itself to create a route? If it's the latter, that's really bad news - effectively degrading the performance of the unit on larger routes and limiting it's usefulness on more serious outings.  |
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johno99
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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The route planner on satmaps site. If the route is too large the route planner cannot cope with it. The same route works fine on the unit and Satmap are working on the problem. Strange but the route on the unit only shows 177 WPs but once saved on the route planner it increases to 500 odd!
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lucevans
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| johno99 wrote: | Ok
The route planner on satmaps site. If the route is too large the route planner cannot cope with it. The same route works fine on the unit and Satmap are working on the problem. Strange but the route on the unit only shows 177 WPs but once saved on the route planner it increases to 500 odd!
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BigPerk
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Someone asked about routes being saved to card only. I see in the upgrade info that it provides | Quote: | | Better handling of routes that are moved between internal memory and SD card |
This suggests you can transfer routes between the two?
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lucevans
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| johno99 wrote: | Thanks jonesbach
Do you get the option to save to the sd card or the unit, I'm assuming not. One reason I'm asking is my SD in the unit is a site centred card supplied by satmap and 94% of it used up leaving free space of 26.525 bytes and if I dont get the option then I'm worried I will fill the card up! I would normally in these circumstances just copy the lot to a larger card, I have plenty of them, but as we know we cant copy to another card.
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Although the A10 doesn't ask you where you want to save the route after you've created it (it automatically puts it on the SD card if one is present and not write-protected) you can then immediately copy the route from the SD card to the internal memory and this then persists in memory, even after removing the card and/or turning off the A10. So a bit more button-pressing required than before, but the same result can be achieved.
Personally, I think I prefer this new way of keeping routes with their associated maps - it's like a filing system that ensures that you don't have to wade through dozens of routes in internal memory that cannot be used with the currently inserted mapcard before you get to the one that can (assuming that you haven't paid to consolidate all your maps onto one card, of course!) |
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johno99
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I must be doing something really stupid or..... I have just updated the software to 1.323 and I couldnt 'see' the routes I had saved. I deleted them all, except one that I downloaded off the route planner a few days ago which seems fine. But I just have created a route on the route planner, saved it to my desktop then downloaded to my active 10 no problem, look on satsync, shows it quite clearly on satsync but will not show the route on the active 10! I've turned it off and on again, deleted the file and tried again but on satsync but not on the unit.
Also when I save it to the unit it still gives me the option of saving to internal or sd card, I thought the 1.323 would only give the option of sd card. I've tried it and is saves to either. I checked 'about' and its 1.323.
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johno99
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I was doing something stupid, tired, long day etc. I was clicking on 'copy file to active 10' instead of 'import'!
Tried a few times as tests and its fine but still gives me the option of saving to unit or SD card.
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johno99
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I was doing something stupid, tired, long day etc. I was clicking on 'copy file to active 10' instead of 'import'!
Tried a few times as tests and its fine but still gives me the option of saving to unit or SD card.
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| johno99 wrote: |
By the way if any of you have been following my thread about the route planner not working if the route is too big, I got a reply from Satmap as follows, 'the route Planner will start to slow down after about 200 way points. We are working on making this better, but it will be a lengthy process.' |
What sort of routes are you planning that have 200+ waypoints?
I ask because that would seem to be a bit of overkill for most things (IMHO). I did the cycling C2C (Whitehaven to Sunderland) back in the early 90's - 120 miles - with a total of 87 waypoints (which had to be split across 3 routes due to limitations of the GPS I was using). Most of these were to mark non-obvious turnings and changes from on to off road routes (and vice-versa). Still it didn't prepare us for the route choice in Greystokes where at the centre of the village there are 4 roads at right angles - each one signed for the C2C 
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johno99
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I agree I would never have any near 200 waypoints but the problem is when transfering from the active 10 to the route planner, the system automatically decides the number of waypoints not the user.
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LostMike
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The comments about the number of waypoints seems to miss the possibility of walking a route, downloading the file and then editing it to produce a clean route that can be walked (missing out the wrong turns, stops for lunch, visit to the shop etc.). I have tried to do this but the current route planner will not cope. Which is a shame as I could then have uploaded them to route share!.
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LostMike
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Has anyone had any problems with the latest software. On a walk today two odd things happened. My Duracell rechargeables (that normally last all day) gave out half way round and the route that the A10 created from the trail I had created added 2 miles on to the route and put in a loop that I had not made.
I accept that this may in part be a mistake made by me. I might have forgotten to fully recharge the batteries but it seems unlikely. The loop did start where I replaced the batteries but the loop was not shown on the snail trail or the log of total distance walked so I have no idea why the A10 created this odd loop.
Interested if anyone else has had similar experiences.
P.S. the replacement Energiser Lithiums seem to be holding up well.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| LostMike wrote: | | Has anyone had any problems with the latest software. On a walk today two odd things happened. My Duracell rechargeables (that normally last all day) gave out half way round and the route that the A10 created from the trail I had created added 2 miles on to the route and put in a loop that I had not made...... |
I walked yesterday total on time about 8 hours and had no problem with the Sony 2700mah rechargeables. By the end of the walk I was down to three bars but this is normal and I have been using it on and off since then and still has three bars. Route was recorded OK but obviously without the power down I am not repeating your conditions.
My only gripe is I still get long lock on times when I move out of my area by more than a few miles. |
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| LostMike, did you have a chance to stop the Trip Log before the batteries gave out? If not, on restart it would have logged the initial "lock on drift" although you should still have had a snail trail. |
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