GPSmap 62s Track Problem

I was using a GPSmap 62s while paddling on a local river. For one stretch, the river runs parallel to a road. While paddling this stretch, the marker showing my position was clearly following the road, not the river. When I returned home and uploaded the track to Basecamp, the track doesn't show what the GPS was displaying as my track. The uploaded track correctly showed my position was always on the river.

Is there any way to prevent this from happening?

I'm using Software version 6.10. The maps loaded were Garmin Topo 24K. I wasn't navigating a route and the orientation was set to "Track Up".

Steve

0 SUSSAMB over 10 years ago

Sounds like you have lock on road set on your GPS.

0 skmillerpobox over 10 years ago

I spent a long time searching for a lock on road setting before asking for help. I couldn't find anything related to tracks. I went searching again after your response and found it under the Routing settings. It was set to lock on road. Hopefully, that fixes the problem, but I won't know until the next time I go out to the same location.

What I find surprising is that the lock on road setting would have any effect on the track being displayed if I am not following a route.

Thanks for the help.

BTW, I see that you moved my posting to a different forum. There doesn't seem to be any place to ask questions about the trail GPS units so I posted where I thought was most appropriate. BaseCamp for Windows probably isn't the correct place since this was a GPS problem and I'm using a Mac.

Steve

0 JaVaWa over 10 years ago

What I find surprising is that the lock on road setting would have any effect on the track being displayed if I am not following a route.

The "lock on road" setting places the position cursor on the nearest road, whether you are following a route or not.
The position your device calculates isn't exact, it can be off a few metres (depending on the signal quality). Maps aren't always exact either, so it may happen that the cursor is running at some distance parallel to the road you're on. In order not to confuse the user most GPS devices will correct this so that the cursor "sticks" to the road.
Ofcourse this isn't always desired (as in your case); that's why outdoor devices have an option to switch it off.