A simpler example, and one you can do at just about any time, is finding your car in that
ocean of other cars in the shopping mall parking lot. Just park your car, step outside and
let your eXplorist compute your position. (Make sure that you have a clear view of the
sky.) Using the MARK button, save this position with the name “Car”. When you are
done shopping, just go outside the mall and create a GOTO with the destination “Car”.
No matter where you parked, your eXplorist will guide you back, simply and easily.
Tracing Your Steps
Hikers, mountain bikers and outdoor enthusiasts often need the option of leaving a trail of
breadcrumbs that they can follow back to where they started. The eXplorist has a feature
called
BackTrack
that enables you to do just that.
It was mentioned earlier that your eXplorist is constantly computing your present position and
that you can save your position by using the MARK button. Now, imagine that your eXplorist
automatically saved your computed positions as you moved along the trail. Pretty soon there
would be a set of saved positions, like breadcrumbs, that represents the trail you have taken.
This is exactly what the eXplorist does. It saves the computed positions as hidden points of
interest and strings them together to represent your travels. This is called your
Track,
and the
hidden points of interest are your
Track Log
.
What your eXplorist enables you to do is to use this Track, reverse it and navigate you along the
same path that you followed to get you back to your destination.
You might drive to the ranger station and follow the trail that leads you to the waterfalls
you have been wanting to see. With your eXplorist turned on and able to compute posi-
tion fixes, you continue along the trail. The trail winds along and has many smaller
trails attached to it. As the day progresses you arrive at the falls. When it’s time to
head back to your car, you access your Track Logs list and select the
Active Track
log.
Now, press MENU, highlight BackTrack and press ENTER. Your eXplorist will now
seamlessly guide you along the path, tracing your footsteps, back to where you started.
Another nice feature of Track Logs, which you may find useful, is that you are able to
save the Track Logs and recall them at any time. In the above example at the waterfall,
you could save that track and use it anytime you wanted to go back.
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