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2 Oct - Durban Surf Lifesaving Club - North Beach 09:30m - about 15:00
( If you want to come for a swim of about 1Km and body-surf a few waves be there at 06:00 ;D )
Ring the buzzer and tell Stan (manager, cook, bottle-washer ) you are going to the GPS thingy )
(Durban Surf is the first building South of the Joe Kools/Wimpy/Steers building on North Beach - they are renovating so the sign is down)
Coords :-
S29 51.030 E31 02.291
Cost R20 per person + lunch to cover room rental fee. + beer money - they don't do cards at the bar.
Bring a laptop/Mapsource/GPS (If you have) for the assignment - If you don't no problem - you can join the team on my laptop
My cell is zero ate too one for nine six
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I was asked a few months ago if I could hold a GPS and mapsource workshop in Durban.
Happy to do.
We have done three now, and have learned a bit of what the guys need and want, so I would suggest the content be:-
Theory bit.
- How GPS works - just an overview - 10 minutes
- Concepts, Terms and GPS-Speak - 1 hour
lat/Lon Coordinates and conversion
Waypoints
Routes
Tracks
Autorouting & hidden tracks
-GPS selection/evaluation for biking - what you need and don't need and decision criteria 30 mins
- Uploading and download to and from PCs
- File types, contents and file conversion
(GDB, MPS, GPX, KML formats - when to use what )
- PC use - Mapsource - 1hour
- Merging,
- editing,
- filtering and . . .
- preparing tracks and files for publication
- Displaying tracks in Google Earth and creating tracks for the GPS from Google Earth.
- Track to route and route to track conversions
- Hands on session/workshop - 2 hours
(For the guys who have and can bring laptops - we can work in teams if we are short of laptops )
assignment will be to edit some stuff from my track file library and use Google Earth to create a publishable file for a future ride.
Owning a GPS and laptop is not a pre-requisite - hopefully the session can help to decide which and why to buy one .
dates ?
------ Da Plans !!-------------
2 Oct - Durban Surf Lifesaving Club - North Beach 09:30m - about 15:00
( If you want to come for a swim of about 1Km and body-surf a few waves be there at 06:00 ;D )
Ring the buzzer and tell Stan (manager, cook, bottle-washer ) you are going to the GPS thingy )
(Durban Surf is the first building South of the Joe Kools/Wimpy/Steers building on North Beach - they are renovating so the sign is down)
Coords :-
S29 51.030 E31 02.291
Cost R20 per person + lunch to cover room rental fee. + beer money - they don't do cards at the bar.
Bring a laptop/Mapsource/GPS (If you have) for the assignment - If you don't no problem - you can join the team on my laptop
My cell is zero ate too one for nine six
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I was asked a few months ago if I could hold a GPS and mapsource workshop in Durban.
Happy to do.
We have done three now, and have learned a bit of what the guys need and want, so I would suggest the content be:-
Theory bit.
- How GPS works - just an overview - 10 minutes
- Concepts, Terms and GPS-Speak - 1 hour
lat/Lon Coordinates and conversion
Waypoints
Routes
Tracks
Autorouting & hidden tracks
-GPS selection/evaluation for biking - what you need and don't need and decision criteria 30 mins
- Uploading and download to and from PCs
- File types, contents and file conversion
(GDB, MPS, GPX, KML formats - when to use what )
- PC use - Mapsource - 1hour
- Merging,
- editing,
- filtering and . . .
- preparing tracks and files for publication
- Displaying tracks in Google Earth and creating tracks for the GPS from Google Earth.
- Track to route and route to track conversions
- Hands on session/workshop - 2 hours
(For the guys who have and can bring laptops - we can work in teams if we are short of laptops )
assignment will be to edit some stuff from my track file library and use Google Earth to create a publishable file for a future ride.
Owning a GPS and laptop is not a pre-requisite - hopefully the session can help to decide which and why to buy one .
dates ?
