What model Garmin are you using?
Hi David, I bought the eTrex 10. Catches a lot of satellites, and the accuracy is very good in the open and good on the open forest. Stopping and taking waypoints for important references seems to work well. It has a mini keyboard to make a note but it's easier to keep the waypoint notes on your easel or tablet.
The toggle switch for the menu is a bit of a pain if you are in a hurry as you have to be very precise with the "click".
I used it a lot this weekend to track trails for a canoe/kayak training centre that wanted a good map of their hiking/biking trails. Have laid up a couple of tracks and they follow the base map roads and trails well. Except for the important corners where you have to slow down. Maybe I can adjust the setting to take more points over time than the preset "more often".
Hope that helps.
It does thanks. Thinking of investing in this kind of technology. Being able to adjust the capture rate sounds like an important feature. Do you then have to re-project the coordinate system of the gpx file to the UTM that OCAD uses?
When you set up a base map in OCAD you choose the datum you want to work with. The UTM WGS/84 is a common standard. When you use the GPS you also set it to capture and display with that datum. Then imputing the track and waypoints is straightforward.
The UTM is split into 60 six degree zones around the world. I am in zone 18 and you are probably in zone 17.
You don't directly load the GPS tracks into the OCAD 11 map. You copy the track and waypoint files into your PC's map file folder and then inport them from there.
It takes a few tries before you get it right.