+Shop99er Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 Howdy, Mrs Shop99er uses a Garmin 60C. When she's moving, the pointer and map are just fine. When she's standing still, the map and the pointer spin round and round, and are useless. Why do they do that? Quote Link to comment
+Sputnik 57 Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 The 60C determines direction by measuring your change in location. When you stop moving, the pointer function doesnt have enough information to know its direction. To keep the map from spinning, you can change it from "direction up" to "north up." More in question 3 of the Maps Section of the FAQ. Quote Link to comment
+Shop99er Posted December 18, 2005 Author Share Posted December 18, 2005 (edited) I figured you would be the guy with the answer. Thanks. Thought of another question.... Where are the tide charts in this thing hiding? We found them once, and haven't been able to: A) remember how we did that. 2) find them since we put detailed maps into the thing. Edited December 18, 2005 by Shop99er Quote Link to comment
+Rotareneg Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 Also check the speed filter setting in the marine settings page from main setup menu. It defaults to auto, but if you've changed it to something else wondering what it did (like I did,) the random drift of the GPS can cause the heading to change unpredicably, which can get really annoying when using track up. Quote Link to comment
+Sputnik 57 Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 The tide info is part of the map data that comes with the unit. Once you load user maps, the tide data is erased. You download it for free from the Garmin site, and then reload it when you load maps. To do so, you have to select the tide data with the map selection tool in addition to any other maps you want to load. More details (and a link to the data) in question 2 of the Miscellaneous Section of the FAQ. Quote Link to comment
stevesisti Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 The 60C determines direction by measuring your change in location. When you stop moving, the pointer function doesnt have enough information to know its direction. To keep the map from spinning, you can change it from "direction up" to "north up." More in question 3 of the Maps Section of the FAQ. Changing the orientation from "north up" to "track up" does nothing to stop the "spinning". It will spin to try and maintain both track up and north up when the problem occurs. I've had this happen several times and a master reset was the cure. There probably is an internal logic that decides when a series of track points actually represents a "real" directional movement as opposed to the normal variations in track points due to accuracy error. Don't know what causes it to happen but it's not the standard minor rotation or variance you see when standing still......it's acutually "spinning" in circles continuously. Quote Link to comment
mtbiker_sk Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 Someone wrote it already: ...Also check the speed filter setting in the marine settings ... This is it ! Set the SPEED FILTER IN MARINE SETTINGS TO AUTO. Believe me. I spend a lot of time and searching until I found such advice. Quote Link to comment
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