FAQ: Tracking

General questions:

• I was wondering if your tracker program can reverse a route I save and show me the way back to where I started?
• Atlas vs. Tracker Program?
• Track color-- I like this new feature a lot. But would it be possible to have some brighter colors to choose from?
• Is it possible to take an existing GPS track file stored on PC and convert\load to a Palm running Tracker?

Trouble shooting:

• Tracker is working, but when I select Log.Export I don't see anything happen and can't find any output. I tried this with a track of 279 points selected. Can you describe what I should observe on the screen, what the exported csv file is named and where it is located?
• I have gotten all the functions working with the demo version of Tracker. However, I really need to get the export option to function for this to work well for me. I am running an m505 with a memory card installed?
• Hard buttons don't work as mentioned for my Tungsten T3

General questions

I was wondering if your tracker program can reverse a route I save and show me the way back to where I started?

A Track log in Tracker consists in a set of connected waypoints, there is no notion of directions implied. When connected to a GPS, an arrow shows your actual position and the direction you are moving to. If you are on a Track log you will see the route underneath and the arrow on top.
 

Atlas vs. Tracker Program?

Atlas displays bitmaps maps and shows your current position, direction, speed, altitude, etc...
Tracker displays also bitmaps maps and shows your current position, direction, speed, altitude, etc... And lets you build routes and shows them these maps.
Both program lets the user create way points.
Tracker is a super set of Atlas function with the addition of tracking functionality.
 

Track color-- I like this new feature a lot. But would it be possible to have some brighter colors to choose from?

All of the 256 colors available in the current mode are shown. Strange colors may be shown if the current map has its own color table (Only for Palm Database maps).
 

Is it possible to take an existing GPS track file stored on PC and convert\load to a Palm running Tracker?

Currently you can export tracks logs from your PDA to your PC via the Log-Export function.
However there is no possibility to import them from csv ASCII file to your PDA. Actually we are working on it for future upgrades. Stay tune on our site!
 

Trouble shooting:

Tracker is working, but when I select Log.Export I don't see anything happen and can't find any output. I tried this with a track of 279 points selected. Can you describe what I should observe on the screen, what the exported csv file is named and where it is located?

On PDA screen nothing happens during the export process. The export function converts and saves the current tracks log in the <tracks-log-name.csv> ascii file stored on external memory under the /GPSpilot/Tracks/ directory.
 

I have gotten all the functions working with the demo version of Tracker. However, I really need to get the export option to function for this to work well for me. I am running an m505 with a memory card installed? Hard buttons

External memory means sd card, compact flash or memory stick memory support

The export function converts and saves the current tracks log in the <trackslog_name.csv> ASCII file stored on external memory under the /GPSpilot/Tracks/ directory

Each line describes a track point record following this format :

Lat, Long, [Alt], [Variation], [Date and Time]

• Lat is the Latitude of the track point in degrees with decimals format: dd.ddddd
• Long is the Latitude of the track point iin degrees with decimals format: dd.ddddd
• Alt (optional) is the Altitude described in feet or meters
• Variation (optional), is the magnetic variation (optional) degrees,
  positive for East negative for West. North / East is positive, South / West is negative
• Date and Time and universal format and are readable by any spreadsheet.

Compatibility. Exported files are directly readable by all major data sheet software and had been mainly tested on Microsoft Excel.
 

Hard buttons don't work as mentioned for my Tungsten T3

Actually, in the 5.6 versions and for devices with a 5 ways navigation pad, the raw of the 4 hard buttons are not anymore redefined for application purpose. So the behavior you are watching is normal.

 For these devices, we have redefined the 5 ways navigation pad buttons as follow: 

• center key for Palm Tungsten users opens a menu that allows you to switch between Tracker different views
• up and down keys, right and left keys allow to scroll directly from map to map

> Tracking module info
> TRACKER product page