Exporting Waypoints To A Meridian Meridian GPS Receiver
If you own a Magellan Meridian GPS receiver, this option
will come in handy when you need to ‘upload’ waypoints to the unit using the
SD card. GPXSonar will use whatever caches are present in the list and will
generate a waypoint file that the GPS can understand.
The waypoints are written to a file named ‘MagWpts’
located under ‘\Program
Files\GPXsonar\Export’ (default location). GPXSonar will confirm the operation
by showing you a message box with the total of exported waypoints
.
All you need to do is to copy this file to the SD card of
your GPS unit using the SD card slot of your PDA. Then, using the ‘Card
Utilities’ menu on the Meridian,
choose the ‘Load Waypoints/Routes File’ option to load the waypoints into the
User Database.
In the User Database, you will notice that each cache
waypoint is prefixed with 2 numbers separated by a ‘/’ like this: 15/25
GCxxxx. The first number represents the difficulty rating of the cache and
the second one represents the terrain rating of the cache.
Exporting Waypoints In EasyGPS .loc Format
Many people use their PDA as a GPS receiver and navigate to
cache locations using programs such as ‘Mapopolis’ and ‘GPS Tuner’.
Some of these applications such as GPS
Tuner are capable of importing waypoints in GPX format as generated by
EasyGPS or by Geocaching.com. GPXSonar will also export any cache visible in
the main list to a .loc file compatible with these other applications (i.e GPS Tuner). The waypoints are written
to a file named ‘LocWpts.loc’ located under ‘\Program Files\GPXsonar\Export’
(default location).
ROT13 Helper
Should you need to encrypt or decrypt any information in
the field, this built-in tool will let you do just that easily. Simply hit
the ‘Convert’ button to decrypt and encrypt any text that you enter.
Note: by default, the ROT13 Helper will show the hint of
the cache currently selected in the list.
Performance
Through this dialog, you can control how GPXSonar consumes
memory on your device. You have 2 options:
- Use
More Memory (Faster): This is the default option. When in use, the
application loads the entire content of the GPX file into memory and
generates the cache pages without any further file access.
- Use
Less Memory (Slower): Use this option when you need to spare memory. For
instance, if you need to run other large applications along with
GPXSonar. In this mode, the application places the cache descriptions
and the cache logs into an alternate file created when the GPX file is
loaded. When a cache page needs to be generated, the application
retrieves the information from the alternate text store. Because of
this, loading the GPX file and generating HTML pages may be slightly
slower than with the former option. In average, this setting reduces the
memory usage by 60% to 70%. Your mileage will vary according to the size
of the Pocket Query file.
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Exporting Waypoints
To Your Magellan Meridian

Exporting
Waypoints In EasyGPS .loc Format (GPS Tuner)

ROT13 Encoder /
Decoder

Tuning Memory
Usage & Performance
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