[gps-talkusers] Re: a unique use for manual and virtual routes
- From: "Kevin Chao" <101130189@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:33:17 -0800
Mike.
Yes, this is a very unique use of manual routes in virtual mmode, but it
sounds like it is very useful and handy. I will give it a shot the next time
I am planning a route and want to determine the best possible route without
doing so much backtracking.
Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael May" <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "GPS-talkusers-freelists.org" <GPS-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:44 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] a unique use for manual and virtual routes
>I am working on a trip to Europe and used the Sendero GPS route recording
>features to help me figure out the shortest route to visit 8 cities. I went
>to a GeoCoding web site and typed in the name of the city and country and
>got the lat/lon for that city. I set that lat/lon as my virtual position. I
>then recorded a manual waypoint at that virtual position. I repeated these
>steps for each city.
>
> Then, I rearranged the waypoints, checking after I moved each point to see
> what the total route distance was. I wanted to minimize the amount of back
> tracking we do. This is a rough estimate but it was a fantastic tool to
> help in understanding the distances and direction between the various
> cities.
>
> The other useful aspect of creating a virtual route using a city lat/lon,
> is so that I can quickly place myself in that city without having to know
> an address. Once I load the route, I can go to any of the waypoints and
> set it as my virtual position. This works of course in countries where we
> have maps but also in countries where we don't. Maybe someone could take
> on the ambitious project of creating a waypoint for every country. You
> could then set any country as your virtual position and find out how far
> it was from any other country.
>
> The url for the geo coding site is
> http://stevemorse.org/jcal/latlon.php
> It is very accessible.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> Michael G. May
>
> CEO Sendero Group
>
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