truckon Posted October 19, 2002 Share Posted October 19, 2002 I have a Garmin Legend and on the sub menu for the data fields I have Location (selected) and Location (lon & Lat). What is the selected for. Thanks [This message was edited by truckon on October 20, 2002 at 04:58 PM.] Quote Link to comment
W4WMM Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 I don't know either. I just went out and did an experiment and couldn't figure it out either. Quote Link to comment
+park2 Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 Hmmm, Cool, I never noticed that before. On mine it gives me the same position in two different formats hddd.ddddd and hddd mm.mmm If I change the display format in Units/Setup, one of them changes. Can anyone find a way to change the second displayed format? Park2 Quote Link to comment
+apersson850 Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 Well, that's just it. The lat/long field always shows hddd mm.mmm, while the lat/long (selected) shows whatever format you selected under the units option at the set-up menu. Anders Quote Link to comment
+Alan2 Posted October 21, 2002 Share Posted October 21, 2002 What we really need is two locations to show at the same time -one current and the other the destination. Alan Quote Link to comment
+apersson850 Posted October 21, 2002 Share Posted October 21, 2002 That I agree upon, Alan. Would have been very handy when doing the coordinate matching thing, when looking for a cache. Still, displaying the position in a field, which was something an eTrex couldn't do before (imagine, a positioning device can't tell you the position!!) is better than nothing. Anders Quote Link to comment
truckon Posted October 21, 2002 Author Share Posted October 21, 2002 I was thinking that it might be for the destination but it would change with the the Lon/Lat. Thanks for the input. I e-mailed Garmin to see what they would say this weekend but I have not heard back yet. Thanks Quote Link to comment
truckon Posted October 22, 2002 Author Share Posted October 22, 2002 PARK2, Yes that is how it works. I got an e-mail back from Garmin Tech Support and that's what they said. I also brought up about wanting to see your current location and your destination on the same view. They said you could not do that but he would let his supervisor know and maybe it will be on an update some day. Let Garmin know that it is something that would be nice to have. Quote Link to comment
+Alan2 Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Here's Garmin's reply to my question about geting both of the above coordinates in a Vista. Doesn't look to good. Thank you for contacting GARMIN International, Due to the size and limitation of the unit/software this option is not available in the eTrex units. You are able to (as you have seen) see both locations on different pages of the unit during a go to. If you have any other questions please let us know. Best regards, J. Knowles Product Support Specialist Garmin International 1200 E. 151st ST Olathe, KS 66062 ) 1-800-800-1020 ) 1-913-397-8200 Fax 1-913-397-0836 : <> Quote Link to comment
+Alan2 Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 To clarify, I requested BOTH to be displayed at the same time on one of the screens. Alan Quote Link to comment
+apersson850 Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Ha-ha! Seems to be one of these "Let's see if he buys that" answers. Adding the ability to view the destination coordinates in the trip computer page, for example, would hardly consume that much memory in the firmware. Not compared to the Jumping Master, for example, something they added without any problems with size of the unit or firmware. Anders Quote Link to comment
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