+ICHTHYS Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 I have been taking my GPSr everywhere and logging my tracks to see where I have been. I want to be able to constantly add my tracks to a map to see if I can hit all the roads in my county as I travel and see on one map everywhere I have been in one year. What mapping program will allow me to do this and not replace the old tracks as I download new ones? Quote Link to comment
Neo_Geo Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 What make & model GPSr? Quote Link to comment
+ICHTHYS Posted February 4, 2005 Author Share Posted February 4, 2005 I have a Garmin Legend. Quote Link to comment
+Olar Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Just about all mapping software programs will allow this including Mapsource. I believe though that when downloading a track to Mapsource it will automatically open a new session. Once downloaded you would need to copy and paste the track to your previously saved file where you want to accumulate all your tracks in one file. Cheers, Bill Quote Link to comment
+embra Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 (edited) You may be interested in GPS Drawing. Edit: That's creative product, not a software solution. Edited February 4, 2005 by embra Quote Link to comment
Neo_Geo Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Just about all mapping software programs will allow this including Mapsource. I believe though that when downloading a track to Mapsource it will automatically open a new session. Once downloaded you would need to copy and paste the track to your previously saved file where you want to accumulate all your tracks in one file. Cheers, Bill The problem with this is that the GPSr downloads the tracks identified as "Active Log", "Active Log 001", "Active Log 002", "Active Log 003". Your previously saved file will already have the tracks stored with those names. When you download the new tracklogs into the old file, or copy the new tracks from another instance of MapSource, you will overwrite the old previous tracklogs! To avoid overwriting the previously saved logs, you have to rename each individual log - change it from "Active Log 001" to something like "Active Log 1001" so that there is no conflict with the new incoming data. Quote Link to comment
+Greymane Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Memory-Map lets you do this also. You can organize overlays and save in separate files. You can even put text notes on the map, which I think if pretty neat. Quote Link to comment
+SandRaven Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 I use Delorme Topo, and it lets you save each route or track as a layer, so you can turn them on or off, and do whatever you want. Quote Link to comment
+hardwire Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 I use TopoFusion for Etrex and GPSmap60c. I save each track then can check mark to show all or just selected ones. Quote Link to comment
+Rubberhead Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Garmin's Mapsource will do it. You just have to open a second instance of Mapsource. In the first instance, load the file containing the tracks you've been saving. Use the second to download the tracks from your GPS. Cut and paste the tracks from the second instance into the first and then save the first instance. Quote Link to comment
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