Installation - GPS-Mate
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1. 3 1 3 Satellites View In the satellites view all visible satellites are shown with their number Satellites that are used for calculating the posito g are highlighted by green colour g GPS Mate et qx 23 38 X 48 09 904 N 11 20 467E H534m 593 DER HOOF 1 4 VOOR 2 4 POOP 2 5 CE View Map Tour i a Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 5 www gps mate com 3 1 4 NMEA View To see NMEA 0183 messages you can use the NMEA view You can suspend resume the message output by the Stop Continue button GPS Mate a x 08 07 X aal 648 179 525569 PGPRMC 060648 741 060906 N 44 6PGG4 060650 741 0 00 0 0 M 00 SORGSA A aman Le OPOSV 2 1 08 24 59 221 23 58 058 20 OPOSV 2 2 08 27 30 181 13 81 275 04 POPRMC 060650 741 060906 N 43 5P6G4 060651 741 0 00 M 0 0 M 00 SEP ESSA mane Le GPRMIC 060651 741 060906 N 4a 5POG4 060652 741 0 00 M 0 0 M 00 TOPGS A A a E OPOSV 2 1 08 24 59 221 25 58 058 20 GPGSV 2 2 08 27 30 18 1 Continue MORA MANAG TAT ri 1 View Map Tour e oq Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 6 www gps mate com 3 2 Info Bar The Info Bar compounds 2 lines a upper and a lower row These can be individually configured 2 ira a i j i GPS Mate er ix 08 07 X gt Speed in the selected units see Options az 6461 9 5255690 0 00km gt Coordinates in WGS84 or UTM gt Selected point or gt Current GPS P2. View Map Tour By TaH on an icon the POI name is shown 7 1 Track POI Use Tour gt Track POI to attach a POI to the currently recorded tour at the current GPS position Just select a POI form the list and you may assign an individual name by TaH in tracking view gt Edit PON 7 2 POI To mark any point on earth choose Tour gt POlI After selecting a POI icon and entering a name the following dialog is shown Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 17 www gps mate com a GPS Mate r x 11 20 ok WiES84 Longitude Latitude 45347866 45347866 52 20 6208N 20 52 20 6208N aa One Northing 626837 25837 ft hu seo009e 5500948 Current GPS Position Map Ref Foint 1 Ref Point 2 231 2 3 4 5j6 7 aj9joje 4 jaj wje r t z u i ojpj Y ajs ajfjajh ilk ij j y s c y bjnjm straja A te gt View Map Tour H E Either enter the geographic position or choose From Map If you have chosen From Map just TaH the point to place the POI and select Add POI form the context menu This leads you back to the dialog with the new coordinates Close the dialog with OK The new POI is also shown in the manager list Also you can TaH a map anytime and select Add PO from the context menu 7 3 Add your own POPs to GPS Mate You can create your own POI icons and use them with GPS Mate The POI icons should be 64 x 64 pixel and must be copied as uncompressed BMP file into
3. Enter local time Once you click OK GPS Mate is seeking the position If it was found it s shown on the map Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 19
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5. a POI sub folder ina preset folder see Options The name of the POI must not be longer than 32 characters Once you have copied the POPs e g via ActiveSync choose Hescan in the global functions of the manager Now you ll find your new POPs in the POI list Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 18 www gps mate com 8 Destination Finder You can define a POI the start of a tour or any point as the destination to find back to it In the info bar you see an arrow pointing to the direction of the destination and the air line distance to it in the green field The arrow points to the top when you are heading directly onto the destination At a speed of 3 kph or below the arrow is frozen To define a POI or start of a tour as destination go to View gt Manager choose the POI or tour By TaH you ll see a context menu from which you select Use as destination Also in tracking view you can choose any point on the map by TaH You ll see the context menu from which you select Use as destination You can switch the destination finder in the info bar off through View gt Opotions 9 Time2Pos The Time2Pos function allows you to find a position where you have been at a given time if a tour was recorded You find this function in the global context menu in the manager In the following dialog you can enter date and time to find the position for a GPS Mate af dx 11 21 ok Ea September 7006 MOM DOD F 5 5 View Map Tour E
6. 06 by www confitek de VVVV Show timestamps with time and or date Show POPs Highlight recorded points Show an arrow to indicate the tour direction Page 8 www gps mate com 4 Manager for maps and tours Menu View gt Manager f GPS Mate en x 10 15 ok v c Map Tour A M Male Atoll M Ari Atoll M MALDIVES M Munich Old city W Wetterstein Tour We Tour 05 09 06 _08 20 Set Destination a0 Co Tour Start Export Tour Rename Delete View Map Tour C E A 4 1 Map and tour functions Maps and tours can be shown or hidden in the tracking view by the tick box in the first column Hiding not required tours increases the performance when scrolling and zooming in the tracking view An M in the second column indicates a map A coloured T in the second row indicates a tour By tapping these coloured I s you can change the colour of the track The third column lists the names fo the tours and maps When you tap and hold a context menu with further functions is shown The currently selected tour and map are highlighted with a leading The tour which is currently recorded is highlighted by brackets If a tour is selected as destination it s highlighted by parenthesis Maps and tours also can be selected renamed and deleted ls a map renamed the name of the image file is not changed Is a tour renamed the name of the TUR file is also changed This makes it easier to find and arch
7. User Manual GPS Mate V1 01 www gps mate com 1 2 3 4 5 6 T 8 9 Moa NO oaa a e EAA 1 Setup Of the GPS TECEN O rsi R R A E 1 lla ge Ye 6 le Moreran E E ne ey See ee oe ree 2 li NCW S aah soc A E A Aone toe ee tetas ta 2 Stele TRACKING WICW rrr ieser rT pri 3 32e WRONG VIEW goiaren an E EE 5 ST Oee S VIEW secccsessuenscensnenstensueneteuduetsdencnayetensuseedepsuaedancessedasduaeedendeeuies 5 Sela NMEA WIG W cecaenenan ena gecaccenca casas Shes aieeSieseianeia 6 I ISD fe ee eee er nee ett een enn ere ne ORE eRe ERE oe 7 Ode ODIOS asnan a a iene i dean itea 8 rol VewWONIONS aaa a a eee 8 332 WOUR STINGS cir E EEE 8 WianhagertOr Mans and OURS 2x52 3532s ots is es a ea eens a ees 9 4l Map and TOUT TU CUO NS voces ees oes a E EER 9 Aas Gopal PUNGCUONS oseese erra e roen areara ded 10 USNO MaD ae a ner errr rere ere ree 11 5 1 Import and Calibration Of a MAP cccceccceeecceeeeceeeeceeeeeeeeseeeesseeesseeesaeeesees 11 5 1 1 Entry format WGS84 and UTM 20 0 ceecccceeeeseeeeeeeeeeseeeeeseeeeeeas 11 5 1 2 Calibration with known geographic Coordinates ccccceeeeeeeeeeeeees 12 5 1 3 Calibration with unknown geographic Coordinates c cccccseeeeeeees 13 SrA JEXPORINGCAlOrallOn Cala essien NEn 14 USMO TOUS eaaa E EE EE E E TA 15 Ole NOW TOU uspenn nrn OOII S 15 Bi COSC TOUR ea S cn eee een ea ateeee 15 OSs MPO TOU ae E E E ntntesvactatelatonicc 15 6 4 Export of
8. b reference point 1 e Place reference point 1 e Place reference point 2 View Map Tour og 2 7 Now go back to the calibration dialog via Map gt Calibration and enter the coordinates as WGS84 or UTM coordinates in tabs reference points 1 or 2 Close the dialog with OK or Save Once you finished calibrating the map save it gt Same as reference point 1 After leaving calibration you see the standard menu bar with the full screen icon View Map Tour 9 e E 7 Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 12 www gps mate com 5 1 3 Calibration with unknown geographic coordinates Close the dialog with Ref from map In the menu bar you see the icon P if necessary zoom in or out of the map By tapping the icon you step through the following functions to calibrate the map e Scroll the view to get to the right place on the map view Map Tour o ol h 7 e Pan the map only and zoom in out of the view the map scale stays the same view Map Tour Gh S S oh 7 View Map Tour s ol gi 7 gt A short stylus tap selects the pixel coordinates of the map The new refercne point will only be accepted if you select the geographic position with tap and hold either on a tour track or anywhere else in the map e Place reference point 1 e Place reference point 2 View Map Tour a A 2 7 You can iterate these steps to improve the calibration if required This might be helpful when you calibrate by distinc
9. e g GPS Mate a x 07 05 ok GPS Mate ar x 215s X 30N 833979 0 SE Lee Ses Hom somo Rian F 46800 baud Stat Naw Close Port View Map Tour HA aie ea view Map Tour ej E E lf the GPS port could not be opened for communication the arrow in the tracking view is flashing twice per second If the port could be opened but no GPS data is received e g a wrong port was selected or the baudrate is wrong the arrow is either invisible or is not flashing Also in NMEA view no messages are displayed lf GPS Mate receives messages from the GPS receiver the arrow is flashing in time with the GPS typically once per second When using a Bluetooth GPS receiver make sure its switched on and has a bluetooth connection to the PDA Once the connection to a Bluetooth GPS receiver is lost GPS Mate tries to re establish the connection after 15 seconds Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 1 www gps mate com 3 Introduction 3 1 Views View Map Tour TY aa E Activate full screen mode by tapping the i amp icon in any view To exit full screen mode double tap anywhere on the screen screen rotation can be changed in the PocketPC settings Choose Start Settings gt System gt Screen orientation portrait Iandscape or use one hardware key of your PDA if assigned to screen rotation In the menu View choose either Tracking Profile Satellites or NMEA GPS Mate ef ax 07 20 X 327 65 629 326204 SPS Settin
10. gs Options Manager RIMES Satellites Frofile Tracking View Map Tour i e E Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 2 www gps mate com 3 1 1 Tracking View In this view you can pan and zoom the maps on the screen View Map Tour TY a E 7 The tracking view has the two modes Locked and Unlocked In mode Locked the current GPS position and direction is indicated in the map by an arrow The tip of the arrow points to the current location the arrow direction indicates the moving direction The map is automatically panned when you move outside the current map area New maps or maps with a smaller scale are loaded automatically In mode Unlocked you can scroll to any point on the earth Available maps are loaded and displayed when you zoom to their native scale first This way overlapping maps with different scales can be displayed mae Either tap and drag the screen or use the cursor keys Locked mode is exited e With oe you zoom in and out of the maps In Locked mode you can also use the up and down keys e A map is shown when the zoom is the range of 1 8 to 4 times the scale of it Otherwise a black border is indicating the location of the map e Change between Locked and Unlockea mode with the enter selection key e f you Tap and Hold TaH on a tour in the tracking view the following menu is shown GPS Mate Er xo 07 38 X gt You can select this tour The selected tour is highlighted with a
11. is there s the track itself top and the POI s re H Sg Meine Orte i Temporare Orte ay GPS Mate Tour M 9 Tour Munich Old City Choose this track and click Play Tour to start the tour de sae ore RIANA ARNAR LAUR Aa MELA AAR LRU RL RMA NENN ENAN ENAN EREN ia na RUE RAR tn in LE EE The Mev City Hall was buit between 1867 and 1905 You find the Old City Hall only a few steps away E Hut Wikualienmarkt 7 The old Bavarian farmer market The right place to relax and enjoy the unique atmosphere E Hut Asam Church M Hut Gartnerplatz Gartnerplatz Quarter i E Hut Herz Jesu Church E Hut leartor Old lsar Gate E Hut Hofbr uhans MM Hut Nationaltheater E Hut Residenz E Hut Odeonsplatz lM Hut Agvtische Kunst 3 Collection of Egyptian Art z E Hut Chancelry i a Hut House of Art Picture 6 1 Google Earth Screen If you select the track you can click the play icon on the bottom right to fly along the track Change the Google Earth settings in Tools gt Options gt Control Advanced Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 16 www gps mate com 7 Point of Interest POI Point Of Interest mark particular points Those can be attached to either a track or placed anywhere on the world POI s have a name and an icon Additionally you can give an particular POI an individual name and descriptive text OES Mate Ang fate gn Ax 11 18 ok
12. ive TUR files lf you delete a map or a tour only the entry in the manager list is deleted The image file of a map or the TUR file remains on the storage card Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 9 www gps mate com 4 2 Global Functions Global map and tour functions such as Time2Pos see 9 can be reached by tap and hold onto the topmost row Map Tour This displays a context menu for selecting the global functions f a GPS Mate qo x 11 13 ok Time2Pos E f MuenchnerSe To Unterschleil Fuerstenfeldira Monaco Talkrogen MUENCH Altstadt 4ssling Amsterdam zentrum Suedtirolg Garmisch und Umgebung WLM 400 Dachstein Europe M M f lo M f i M f i M f LI LI p L E F View Map Tour oq Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 10 www gps mate com 5 Using maps Maps should be stored on your Pocket PC either in the folder My Documents orona storage card Its recommended to use 8bpp BMP image files for very large maps several 100MB with tens of thousand times tens of thousand pixel as these are only limited to storage card space Other file formats are limited to main memory RAM 5 1 Import and calibration of a map In tracking view roughly scroll to the geographic position of the middle of the map and roughly zoom to the scale of the map to import This makes graphical calibration easier In menu Map Calibration in tab Map choose Find map and import the map Tw
13. leading in the Manager list gt Hide the tour You can show the tour again through the Manager gt Adda Point Of Interest POI on the track of this tour view Map Tour e E Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 3 www gps mate com e f you Tap and Hold TaH a POI the following menu is shown GPS Mate er x 07 43 X 32T 647990 5255299 gt The selected POI can be edited by name and additional text gt Use the selected POI as destination for the destination finder Edit POI Set Destination View Map Tour c E e f you TaH an arbitrary point the following menu is shown gt Add an POI at the slected point gt Choose the selected point as destination Add Por Set Destination a View Map Tour og Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 4 www gps mate com 3 1 2 Profile View In profile view the height and speed of the selected tour is displayed in a graph dependent on the distance The scaling is the minimum and maximum height respective the minimum and maximum speed of the selected tour The units displayed for distance height and speed depend on the setting of View gt Options GPS Mate an x 07 54 X noe Tour kmh T25idm 2163m 2 15h View Map Tour og oi In the top area of this view the name of the tour the ascent and descent as well as the duration upto the displayed distnace is shown With the zoom icons you can change the detail of the profiles
14. o reference points can be entered if the WGS84 or UTM coordinates are known f GPS Mate er x 10 09 ok Ari Atoll SD Karte Map ARIA TOLL BMF Map Ref Point 1 Ref Point 2 view Map Tour Es A E Reference points should be place as far diagonally apart as possible A For maps with a scale of hiking cycle or road maps the projection and rotation is taken into account while processing the reference points On very large scale maps of continents or big countries there might be inaccuracies due to the projection 5 1 1 Entry format WGS84 and UTM WGS84 Degree Minute Fraction Orientation e g 12 12 3456 E 48 30 1234 N UTM Easting Northing Zone e g 627345 5345678 32U Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 11 www gps mate com 5 1 2 Calibration with known geographic coordinates Close the dialog with Ref from map In the menu bar you see the icon Pif necessary zoom in or out of the map By tapping the icon you step through the following functions to calibrate the map e Scroll the view to get to the right place on the map View Map Tour ES ol b 7 e Pan the map only and zoom in out of the view the map scale stays the same View Map Tour E wn T View Map Tour e E cb 7 gt A short stylus tap selects the pixel coordinates of the map Now you choose the menu Map gt Calibration to get to the calibration dialog and enter the coordinates as either WGS84 or UTM in ta
15. osition GPS Mate er dx 08 07 X s2T 648179 3255690 HOm A SOs PANTAN MACE ii x z GPS Mat dr x 08 07 X 32T 648179 pe gt Height in the selected unit 000km GPS Mate er x 08 07 X f J gt Satellites Used for calculation visible GPS Mate er dx 08 07 X gt A tour is being recorded distance so far 32T 648179 5255690 Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 7 3 3 Options Menu View gt Options 3 3 1 View Options f a GPS Mate ar ax 08 24 ok Map Tour folder i SD Kartes My DocumentsiaPS Mate Status Into Upper row z maj Lower row Presentation T Des iio aE Metric _ UTM grid _ Imperial 9 Nautical Ref points View Options Tour Settings Settings view Map Tour c es oq VVVV VYY www gps mate com List of folders separated by in which maps and tours are stored These are the main folders without the sub folders Map Tour and POI Configuration of the info bar Upper row coordinates and speed Lower row height satellites used for calculation visible Destination finder active WGS84 or UTM coordinates Metric imperial nautical UTM grid a map must be loaded and the scale msut be max 1km 4000ft C Nautical knots feet nautical miles 3 32 Tour Settings f a GPS Mate ar 4x 08 24 ok View L Tour Dots Time _ Dir Arrow Date POI view Options Tour Settings View Map Tour Es oq Copyright 20
16. r is stored ina TUR file with this name It will be filed in the Tour subfolder found first in one of the folders listed in the options setting When a tour is recorded the current distance is displayed in the red field in the info bar GPS Mate a x 08 07 X lf you are already recording a tour must close this tour fist The currently recorded tour is highlighted by brackets in the manager list 6 2 Close Tour The menu Tour gt Close Tour terminates a tour The red field in the info bar disappears 6 3 Import Tour You csan either import a text file e g from an ESRI tool as a tour or you re insert an existing TUR file to the manager list A text file must have the following format comment latitude fraction longitude fraction height southern latitudes and western longitudes are negative The height is in meter e g AT eA 90S4 517 120962329 102 6 4 Export of ESRI and Google Earth files In the manager select the tour to export and TaH to get to the context menu Here you select Export Tour In the subfolder Export of the folder where the tour is stored two files Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 15 www gps mate com Tourname TXT and Tourname KML will be placed The TXT file e g can be used for ESRI tools The KML file can be opened with Google Earth The following picture shows the demo tour how it looks like in Google Earth Within GPS Mate Tour you find the tour Tour Munich Old City Below th
17. tive tour shapes gt Same as reference point 1 Also you can choose the menu Map Calibration to get to the calibration dialog and select Current GPS Position in the appropriate reference point tab Close the dialog with OK or Save Once you finished calibrating the map save it After leaving calibration you see the standard menu bar with the full screen icon View Map Tour TF aa E 7 Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 13 www gps mate com 5 1 4 Exporting calibration data Select the map to export its calibration data in the manager menu View gt Manager By TaH a context menu is displayed see 4 in which you choose Export Ref A CAL file with the same name as the image file of the map is stored in the same folder The image file and the CAL file can be archived and copied back to the PDA later The global function Rescan see Manager scans the folder set in View gt Options for new maps Copyright 2006 by www confitek de Page 14 www gps mate com 6 Using tours A tour comprises the recording of GPS position speed height and time depending of the speed This track can be extended by POPs Point Of Interest Due to the information of a tour many functions can be applied to it like height and speed profiles or Google Earth export 6 1 New Tour A new tour is created through menu Jour gt New Tour GPS Mate proposes a name for the tour according to the current date and time Change the name if required The tou
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