Use and Management of GPS Function Tutorial

Use and Management of GPS Tutorial The Tumonz GPS manager interacts in tandem with Tumonz and accesses & manages your GPS data externally to Tumonz. The GPS manager will communicate directly with your GPS and import waypoints, routes and tracks. These are saved in a generic format (GPX) within your chosen folder structure. As such your GPS data can be viewed with other applications besides Tumonz. Map objects on the Tumonz map can be directly exported to the GPS manager and from here uploaded to your GPS. If you have a web connection you can link directly to the APRS radio network and view live the location of mobile and static units using the APRS network. GPS is covered under the Menu/Tools/GPS Manager User Guide topic. An Overview of the GPS Manager The GPS Manager provides a very transparent view of your GPS data. Firstly, GPS data is managed in a typical folder structure of Waypoints, Routes and Tracks. This folder structure is saved to file and you can have as many files as you like. All you need to do is open them for any session or create and save them. Within a folder of Waypoints you can have many individual waypoints. Within a folder of Routes or Tracks you can have many individual routes and tracks (each is of course simply just a collection of Waypoints). When you have your Waypoints folder selected or an individual route or track selected you will see in the Waypoint Table all the individual Waypoints. Because a Waypoint can contain a ...