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I wear my GPS in a small cell phone case velcroed to my upper arm.

Garmin Mapsource software? Guess I should go look in my box again. I don't remember putting anything on my computer that came with the GPS. Just plugged it into Motionbased.

Angie

-- Don Huston <donhuston@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Angie,

Yes I did look at the tracks and saw that they jumped around some.
That can be caused by your body blocking the signal especially in the
trees where the signal is already weak. I found the best place for my
GPS is on the outside in the center and near the top of my small
CamelPak. I attached a cheap cell phone case there that holds the GPS secure.

If you upload your GPS to your Garmin MapSource software you can go
thru the data and fix a lot of those jumps. Then "save as" to a GPX
file and upload that to MotionBased and your tracks will fit much better.

Don Huston


At 12:54 PM 2/2/2009 Monday, you wrote:

>So...anybody look at my tracks and think these things are accurate
>within a foot or two? If so, I've got a horse that can jump Lookout
>Creek (a good 30 feet wide with 15' banks) without breaking gait.
>Look at that track...it's got me on both sides of the creek (snakey
>band of trees). Also, the route I'm doing behind my house is a 12"
>wide trail. I should be on the exact same track every time around.
>Instead it looks like I'm running through half the trees in the
>woods. Every time you see a perfectly straight line you can bet that
>thing took a shortcut! The track where it did that along the creek
>had no excuse. I'm out in the open..but there is a big ridge on one
>side and a mountain about 1/4 mile away on the other.
>
>Angie
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