Table Of Contents View Overlay Gpx Map Dashboard

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Table of contents View Overlay GPX Map Dashboard tool Satellite status tool Trackalyzer tool Trainer tool Locator tool Accurator tool TrackMe tool Geocoder tool Configure GPS Configure license Configure Online Services Configure language Configure settings Import/export Limitations View Tracky shows in its main window the earth surface as a grid. On top of it, maps, tracks and several icons can be depicted, see the legend. icon description your current position latest known position (if GPS is unable to determine position) track (configurable color) (gray if temporarily no lock) grid line start of track end of track zoom bar (the label shows the length of the zoom bar) marker distance and angle ruler target (other) Point Of Interest (POI) with configurable icon Legend. Main window. You can set a marker by tapping with your stylus on the screen. This marker is used a.o. as center point for zooming. By setting the marker on a POIs or track, more information about this POI or track is given. Furthermore, the marker can be used to set the ruler that shows the distance and angle between two points. You can freely scroll through the area with your stylus by moving it over the screen. You can use the zoom bar to change the size of the visible area. Tap the „+‟ or „-‟ buttons to zoom in or out by a factor 2, or move your stylus along the zoom bar for finer zoom levels. By pressing the icon on the zoom bar, you activate the hyper zoom feature: the zoom level will change such that you see the entire world. This overview picture shows your position and also the positions of your tracks and POIs. You can tell that hyper zooming is activated if the icon is enlarged and shown with a red flashing border (see picture below). By pressing the icon again, hyper zoom is deactivated and the selected position (or selected POI or track) is shown. Hyper zoom. The menu View gives the following options to set the orientation / follow mode: 1. Orient north The screen will rotate such that the top of the screen points north. Not the geographical north is taken as reference, but the north of the currently selected grid, see Configure settings. 2. Orient north and follow The screen will rotate as mentioned in (1), and it will follow the user position, i.e., continuously move such that the user position is centered. 3. Orient cur dir and follow (no maps) The screen will rotate such that it points towards the direction you are currently heading. Furthermore, it will follow the user position, i.e., continuously move such that the user position is centered. Maps will not be depicted. 4. Orient target and follow (no maps) The screen will rotate such that it points towards the configured target, see POIs. Furthermore, it will follow the user position, i.e., continuously move such that the user position is centered. Maps will not be depicted. If one of the follow modes is selected and you use your stylus to scroll the screen, the follow mode will temporarily be disabled. If you do not touch the screen for 5 seconds, the follow mode is activated again. The view menu furthermore gives the following options: 1. Reset user pos The user position is reset at the position of the marker. 2. Set target The target will be set at the position of the marker (or at the current user position, if no marker is set). 3. Delete target The target will be deleted. 4. Goto target The screen will jump to the target position. Overlay Overlays are projected on top of the main window. They show additional information which can also be requested via one of the available tools. The purpose of overlays is to access this information (in brief format) without having to navigate to one of these tools. Overlays. 1) 2) 3) Basic info: a. track length and time of current track recording, b. distance to target and expected time of arrival:  when no target is selected, these fields show a question mark („?‟)  if a POI is selected as target, the icon POI are shown  if a track is selected as target, first the icon the nearest track point are shown  once the start of the track is reached, the icon changes to arrival to the finish of the track are shown is shown, and the distance and expected time of arrival to this is shown, and the distance and expected time of arrival to c. connection status of GPS device and #satellites in view, and d. speed. , and the distance and expected time of Compass: a. compass, b. relative position of the start of the recorded track (if track recording is enabled), c. relative position of the target (if a target is set), and d. navigation hints and spoken voice. e. heading direction Locator: - Position with possibly a conversion to Grid, Datum, or Degrees/Minutes/Seconds notation (the actual conversion which is performed depends on the status of the locator tool). GPX Tracky can deal with GPX files. Such files contain so called POIs and/or tracks (or so called routes). Tracky visualizes all POIs and tracks. You can download GPX files from various sites, but you can also make GPX files yourself. The GPX menu gives the following options: 1. New… Create a new (empty) GPX file. The new file will be stored in the primary data folder. 2. Select… Select one of the available GPX files for further operation, see below. 3. Details… Show details of the currently selected GPX file, see below. 4. Add POI… Add a POI at the marker position (or at the current user position if no marker is set). 5. Record Start and stop recording the track you are travelling. If a recording is stopped, the track is stored, and a new track is created once the recording is started again. On creation, the track is named with the current date/time. If you choose the option Select, you enter the GPX dialogue. An overview is given of all available GPX files. The + and – buttons on the left can be used to expand the tree view and see the POIs and/or tracks of each GPX file. The checkboxes indicate which POIs and/or tracks should be visible (checked) or hidden (unchecked). Press the new button to create a new track in the selected GPX file (only 1 POIs object is allowed per GPX file) and use the buttons rename to rename the file. Press the delete button to delete a track or to empty a POIs object, and press the details button to enter the GPX details dialogue. The GPX details dialogue features a couple of tabs, depending on whether you selected a POIs object or a track. GPX selection dialogue. GPX details dialogue - POIs. GPX details dialogue - Track. The tab “GPX details dialogue – POIs” gives a list of all POIs. This list is also shown for tracks, where each track element is listed. You can change the relative order of the POIs by the arrow button on the left hand side. The following options are given: 1. Target The selected POI is set as target. If the POI is part of a track, then the track is automatically set as target. This means that that the navigation hints will guide you along the track. In settings->Track, you can choose to navigate along the track in reversed direction (from finish to start). By default, navigating a track will be done in the recorded direction. 2. Delete The selected POI is deleted. 3. Show The selected POI is shown on the main screen. 4. Details Details of the selected POI are shown, see POI details dialogue below. 5. Ok Any edits on this POIs object or track are stored and you return to the previous screen. The tab “GPX details dialogue – track” gives information of the track, it is only supported for tracks, not for POIs objects. It gives information of the track distance, the total elevation and decline, and the maximum and minimum altitude. You can change the style of the track by pressing the button style. GPX details dialogue - Performance. GPX details dialogue - Info. The tab “GPX details dialogue – Performance” gives insight in your performance for the track. It is not supported for POIs objects. It shows the total time of this track recording and the maximum, average, and minimum speed during the track. A checkbox allows you to exclude (checked) or include (unchecked) possible stops/breaks during the track recording. This affects the time and thus the average speed. The tab “GPX details dialogue – Info” gives some general information/notes of the track. The name field and the text area allows you to write down some specific notes for this track and/or POIs object. POI details dialogue. Symbol picker dialogue. The POI details dialogue shows detailed information of a POI. You can see and edit the name of the POI. You can set the GPX file and POIs/track object in which this POI should be stored. You can see the date and time when this POI is created (read only). The symbol of this POI can easily be changed by pressing the button by which you enter the Symbol picker dialogue. The exact coordinates of the POI can be inspected/changed by pressing the button with the icon . Finally, some text can be noted down to describe further details of this POI. The button on the lower part of the screen have a straightforward operation and need no further explanation. Map Maps are pictures of for example street maps or satellite photos. For novice users, it is strongly recommended to use the online Google maps or the free maps as are available at the TrackMe section. Expert users can import their own maps and calibrate them so that they show-up at the correct positions and at the correct scale. Online GoogleMaps GoogleMaps is a service of Google. They provide world-wide satellite maps, street maps, and hybrid maps (a combination of satellite and street maps). GoogleMaps is fully integrated in Tracky so that you can use all these maps very easily. To enable this service, go to the menu Map and select option GoogleMaps. Maps dialogue. Here you should simply select the map type you like to use. When you press Back, you will return to the main window. The maps of your choice will then be downloaded from Google, see the screenshots below. Enabling „high resolution maps‟ will give more detailed maps. More data needs to be downloaded, so the download time will increase if you enable this. By deselecting checkbox „download if not in cache‟, you can choose not to download any more maps, but only use the maps which have been downloaded before and are stored in the cache folder. Satellite maps enabled. Street maps enabled. Hybrid maps enabled. Obviously, you need internet access on your PocketPC: 1. 2. 3. via GSM, GPRS, EDGE, or UMTS: you need to have agreed on an internet service with a mobile operator, or via WiFi to your own wireless router, or via a connection to your internet enabled PC (with USB, serial cable, or BlueTooth) Once maps have been downloaded, they are stored in a cache folder on your PocketPC. These maps will still be available if your PocketPC no longer has internet access, even if you restart Tracky or your PocketPC. Since not many people have contract with mobile operators yet, the typical usage of this service is as follows: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. connect your PocketPC to your PC (see option 3 above) enable GoogleMaps by choosing your preferred map type move and scale the screen to those areas for which you like to see the maps, wait until these maps are properly shown (this sometimes takes a couple of seconds since your download connection can be slow) repeat steps (2) and (3) for a different map type if you like now disconnect your PocketPC and turn it off Now get to the place where you like to use Tracky, and start it. You will see that all downloaded maps are still available! Other maps If you don‟t like the GoogleMaps and have better maps yourself, you can use these as well! Examples can be exported at the TrackMe section. This service is not very useful anymore since the integrated GoogleMaps feature is far more convenient. You may have other maps yourself which you may prefer above GoogleMaps. You first need to import them in Tracky as explained in import/export. The maps from the TrackMe section are already calibrated which means that you do not have to study the possible calibration methods as explained below. However, you must calibrate your own maps yourself. This is a fairly complex topic, so be sure you want this! Maps dialogue. Choose Select in the map menu to enter the maps dialogue. This dialogue shows the available maps. The checkbox in front of each map allows you to show (checked) or hide (unchecked) each map. The list also shows which maps have not yet been calibrated ( ) and if a map has load problems ( ). A map needs to be calibrated before Tracky can properly depict it, i.e., Tracky needs information about the position on the earth surface that is represented by the map. Two calibration methods are supported: - 1-point: the latitude and longitude of 1 reference point of the map is required, as well as the actual width of the region that is represented by the map - 2-point: the latitude and longitude of 2 reference points of the map are required Push Details to enter the map details dialogue. Map details dialogue, info. Map details dialogue, 1-point calibration. Map details dialogue, 2-point calibration. The tabs in the Map details dialogue show information about the map, and its calibration info according to the two calibration methods. You can set your preferred calibration method in the first tab. Besides this, you should specify the grid to which the map is aligned. If you are not sure about the grid, then choose Default, which assumes that your map if aligned to the geographical north. You can calibrate the map by the second or third tab, depending on the chosen calibration method. Fill in the details of the reference point(s), their position, and (only for 1-point calibration) the width of the region that is represented by the map. The position of the reference points can be set by clicking the icon . The Locator tool is popped-up which enables you to set or convert the latitude and longitude via various approaches. When pressing Ok, the map will show up in the main screen at the specified position. The reference points can also be set from the main window. First select the map you like to calibrate. In the main menu the reference point(s) will now be shown as icons and . You can reposition these reference points by placing your marker at the desired spot, and selecting set reference 1 or set reference 2 from the map menu. You can also calibrate the map without the above mentioned information about reference points. First make sure you recorded or are recording a track that at least partially covers the area that is represented by the map. Now press the Calibrate button in the map details dialogue. You can now choose whether to want to calibrate by moving/zooming the map (grid is fixed) or the grid (map is fixed). After making your choice, you will return to the main window where you will see the selected map. Scroll and/or zoom the map or grid (depending on your previous choice) until it is positioned properly. Once done, deselect the Calibrate option in the map menu. You can select this option in the menu again to fine-tune the calibration if needed. Do not forget to deselect it when you finished calibrating. Calibrated maps can be de-calibrated either by pressing the Decalibrate button in the map details dialogue or by removing the map calibration file. If you press the Show button in the map details dialogue, you will return to the main window where the map will be centered in the screen. The button is only enabled for calibrated maps. Note that calibration settings are stored in a map calibration file, see import/export. You can open this text file and edit it (on your PC, or even on your PocketPC. The calibration settings will be activated once you (re)start Tracky. Dashboard tool Select Dashboard in the tools menu to go to the dashboard tool. Dashboard tool. The dashboard shows the following figures: - the current speed, - the time per distance (used by runners to show how much time it takes at the current speed to traverse a certain (configurable) distance), - the current G-force (in G), - the current altitude, - the current slope (in %, a positive number means you are ascending, a negative number means you are descending), - track length and time (if a track is being recorded), and - (over the air) distance to target and expected time of arrival (if a target has been set) A compass shows the relative position of the (geographic) north/east/west/south. It furthermore shows the direction you should travel to get back home (the start of the track recording), or to get to the target (if a target is set). When the proximity to home/target is less then 100m, the respective icon will further approach the center of the compass, and thereby enabling you to precisely navigate where you want to be. Centrally position in the compass, a big arrow will appear when a target is set. The arrow shows which direction to go in order to reach the target. Moreover, navigation hints are given by spoken voice (!) to enable you to navigate to the target without having to look down to your PocketPC all the time. The dashboard tool also features a G-force meter. This unique feature gives insight in the G-force that you are currently experiencing. The G-force is not only quantified in size, also the direction if visualized! You are accelerating when the „bomb‟ icon is shown in the upper part, and you are decelerating when the bomb is in the lower part. When it is on the left hand side or the right hand side, you are sharply turning left or right, respectively. The maximum G force it can show is 0.5G… it takes extreme muscles or a fast car to reach that! Tap anywhere on the screen to return to the main window. Satellite status tool Select Satellite status in the tools menu to go to the satellite status tool. Satellite status tool. In the upper left corner, the connection status with the GPS device is shown. An increasing bar shows that data is being received from your GPS device. The bar colors green if the data is valid, or red if the data is not valid (probably a wrong baud rate setting is configured). The figure in the satellite icon corresponds with the number of satellites in view from which reliable information is being received. The large compass shows the actual positions of all satellites that are in view. The numbers correspond with the numbers below the bars at the bottom of the screen. These bars show whether reliable or unreliable data is received from the satellite (green or red bar), and its signal strength. Tracky should receive from at least 3 satellites reliable data to determine your position. Reliable data from more satellites will in general lead to more precise position information. At the bottom of the screen, the current GPS quality, and the PDOP, HDOP, and VDOP values are given. Use this tool to optimize the position of your GPS receiver. Since the satellite status is updated each second, you will quickly find out what influences the position of the GPS receiver. Tap anywhere on the screen to return to the main window. Trackalyzer tool Select Trackalyzer in the tools menu to go to the Trackalyzer tool. Trackalyzer tool. You can use the Trackalyzer tool to analyze your tracks in a graph. Select a GPX file and track, and select the data you want to analyze: - altitude, - G-force (in G), - forward oriented G-force (in G), positive values indicate acceleration, negative values indicate deceleration), - sideward oriented G-force (in G, positive values indicate left turn, negative values indicate right turn), - slope (in %) - speed You make independent choices for the left and the right vertical axis. You can choose to plot that data on a distance scale or on a time scale (horizontal axis). Besides the plot, the minimum and maximum values are depicted. By tapping or moving your stylus in the graph area, a measurement line appears that gives detailed information of the selected data at that point. Use the button Refresh to include the latest information in the graph (only useful if the track you are analyzing is currently being recorded). Use the button Export to export the plotted information to a file. It will be formatted in a so called Tab Separated File (.tsf) which can for instance easily be imported in spreadsheet programs such as MS Excel. Such programs allow you to further analyze the track data, e.g., to compare it with former track recordings. Warning. Tracks that you download from the internet sometimes show extreme values for speed and/or G-force. Typically, these tracks have not been live recorded, but they have been „drawn‟ from behind a PC and the time stamps in these files has been ignored. Trainer tool Select Trainer in the tools menu to go to the Trainer tool. Trainer tool. If you have set a track as target, Tracky will navigate you along the track. As add-on, the Trainer tool can be used to show how you are performing relative to a virtual „trainer‟. The trainer can be configured, see Configure settings – Tab target, so that it moves at a configurable constant speed, or at a speed which is relative to the speed when the track was being recorded. So when you have recorded your favorite tracks, you can next time try to beat your previous time! The trainer is visualized in this tool, but also in the main screen. While the trainer is progressing, you will hear audible feedback that warns you that the trainer is head of you (“faster!”), behind you (“slow down”), or within reach (“hang on”). If the trainer finishes earlier then you, then you will hear “you loose!”, but that will of course not happen for you and you will hear “you win” instead! At the top of the screen, you constantly see the delta between you and the trainer in distance and time. The large graph shows the altitude profile of the track and your progress and the progress of the trainer. It furthermore shows in text your relative performance compared to the trainer. The compass in the top-right corner, and the recording and target distance/times at the bottom of the screen are the same as the ones shown in the main screen and the dashboard tool. The buttons have the following meaning: - Back : returns to the main screen - Disable : disables/enables the trainer - Reset : sets the progress of the trainer equal to your progress Locator tool Select Locator in the tools menu to start the Locator tool. The tool enables you to convert any location to several grids, zones, and datums, and vice versa. The tool is also embedded in the map details dialogue and the POI details dialogue and can be started by clicking on the icon. The tool contains five tabs, so called D, DM, DMS, Grid, and Earth. Each tab shows – in some format – a position. When the Locator tool is started from the main window, this position represents your actual position, or the position of the marker (if set). Each tab offers a different means to analyze and change the position. If you confirm these changes by pressing the button Ok, you will return to the main window and the marker will be set at the changed position. If you press the button Cancel, the changes will be lost and the marker will remain at its previous location. Locator tool, tab D. Locator tool, tab DM. Locator tool, tab DMS. Tabs D, DM, and DMS show the position in latitude and longitude in degrees, possibly split-up in minutes and seconds. The altitude is given in the configured altitude unit. All positions are given in the currently configured Datum, see configure settings. Check the box „follow current pos‟ to have the position continuously updated to follow your current position. Locator, tab Grid. Locator tool, tab Earth. Tab Grid is used to convert a position to the currently configured grid (in Northing and Easting values), see configure settings. Dependent on the configured grid (see supported grids), a zone will be shown. The following zones are supported: - Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) - State Plane Coordinate System (SPCS) - write only - Ordnance Survey Great Britain (OSGB) - read only - Deutsches Haupt Dreiecks Netz (Gauss-Krüger) (DHDN) - write only Tab Earth show a map of the Earth. The pointer represents the defined position. By tapping or moving with your styles on the map, you can change the position of the pointer. The corresponding latitude and longitude values are immediately updated. Accurator tool Select Accurator in the tools menu to go to the Accurator tool. Accurator tool. The accurator tool is an advanced tool to gain more accurate position then given by your GPS device. It uses advanced forward reckoning and averaging techniques. Averaging means that multiple samples of the position as given by your GPS device are taken and averaged to filter out small distortions in the position information. By averaging alone, the averaged position would always lack behind your current position. Only if your speed is zero, averaging would not have this undesired effect. To overcome this, the forward reckoning technique is used: for each sample, the speed as well as the acceleration is used to compute the predicted position of the sample at the current time. By this, moving at constant speed, but even moving at constant acceleration will still give a vary accurate and valid indication of your position! The data which is used for these techniques is depicted in the dialogue: - each sample is represented by the icon with a label which indicates the „age‟ of the sample: the current sample is 0 seconds old, and older samples have age -1 second, -2 seconds, etc. - the green line starting from each sample represents the predicted speed of that sample at the current time - the (often very small) red line starting from the end-point of each green line represents the predicted acceleration of the sample at the current time Furthermore, the Spread and the Accuracy are given: - The Spread is the maximum distance between the predicted positions of all samples. It represents the reliability of the accuracy, i.e., a high spread (one or 2 meters is already considered high) is for example the result of many environmental distortions (trees, high buildings), or unpredicted movements of the user. - The Accuracy is the estimated deviation of the computed position with your actual position. The number of samples can be configured by the buttons – and +. It is advised to use around 2 to 10 samples. Only when you want to have a very accuracy, and realize that you should not move then too unpredictably, increase the number of samples. TrackMe tool The TrackMe tool allows you to follow others live and others can follow you. You can follow others live on internet as well as on your PDA! For this tool to work, you need to have an internet connection on your device by for example GPRS or WiFi. Please refer to your telecom service provider about details how to obtain this and how to configure your device. Test if you have internet connection (e.g., by running the internet explorer) before you proceed with the TrackMe tool. Select TrackMe in the tools menu to go to the TrackMe tool. TrackMe tool, tab Config. TrackMe tool, tab Buddies. In the tab Config, you should specify a unique nickname and a PIN code to use the TrackMe service. You should give this nickname and PIN code to those who like to follow your position on internet. You (and/or your friends) can open an internet explorer on your PC and go to the TrackMe section. Fill-in the nickname and PIN code, press the button Follow, and see where you are, beautifully projected on a map of GoogleMaps! The checkbox can be used to enable a pop-up when a buddy chats with you. More information about chatting with your buddies is given below. You can also track others on your PDA. Therefore, go to the tab Buddies. A list of all your buddies is show (which is empty initially). If you know the nickname and PIN code of your buddy, then add your buddy to the list by pressing the button Add. You can add me if you like, my nickname is Harro and my pincode is 0000. If you add a buddy to your list, then you are automatically added to the list of your buddy. So if you add me, then I will always know where you are hanging out! You can select one of the listed buddies and press Show to return to the main screen where the focus will be set to the selected buddy! You will see that the positions of your buddies are continuously updated, i.e., you follow then live! If the buddy icon is marker with a , then he is not online at the moment. Press Target to set the selected buddy as target. TrackMe tool, tab Chat. TrackMe tool, tab Status. Go to the tab Chat to chat with your buddies. Simply type the message, select the buddy you want to address, and press the Send button. The text area in the lower part of the screen gives a historic overview of all sent and received messages. The Clear button will clear this area. If a buddy is not online, you can still send messages to him. He will read these messages once he gets online. If you receive a message, then you can configure Tracky to show a pop-up, so that you are immediately notified that a message has been received (see tab Config). The tab Status shows the status of the TrackMe components and allows you to change the update intervals: - upload position follow you : shows when your position has been uploaded and made available to those who - download buddy positions : shows when the positions of your buddies have been received - poll chat messages addressed to you : shows when the server has been contacted to collect the messages that have been The button Refresh enforces that your position is uploaded and that buddy positions are downloaded and messages are collected. Geocoder tool The Geocoder tool allows you to find an address. Given a country/state, city/POBox, a street name and a house number, you can search for its exact position. Just fill in this information, or part of this information, and press the Find button. The Geocoder tool is an online service which requires an internet connection in order to process your request. The result is shown in the text area. It furthermore shows the exact position in latitude/longitude and its distance from your current position. Press the Show button to jump to the found location and press the button Target to set the target to the found location. In the main screen, the found location is marker with the icon . The button Clear just clears the input fields. Simple and powerful! Geocoder tool dialogue. Configure GPS The menu config gives access to the GPS configuration dialogue. GPS configuration dialogue. Use the GPS configuration dialogue to configure the connection to your GPS receiver. On Windows Mobile 5 and 6, the proper GPS configuration is probably automatically determined. The colored icon shows the connection status with the GPS device. An increasing bar (green or red) shows that data is being received from your GPS device. The bar is colored green if the data is valid, or red if the data is not valid (probably a wrong baud rate setting is chosen). The figure in the satellite icon corresponds with the number of satellites in view from which reliable information is being received. Most GPS devices work fine with the „default‟ baud rate, or at 4800baud, but you can choose other values. If the option „Configure GPS‟ is checked, Tracky will try to configure the GPS each time it connects to it. For most GPS devices, this is not required, and for some GPS devices this is even not desirable. Only use this option if no proper GPS connection can be configured with the given COM ports and baud rates. The option „log to file‟ can be selected to log all data from you GPS receiver to a file. All data will be appended to the specified file. Also when you quite Tracky and start it next time, the logging will continue. Be careful with this option, since the log file will grow and may clutter your file system. Configure license The menu config gives access to the License configuration dialogue. License configuration dialogue. The License configuration dialogue shows detailed information about which license is active. Tracky includes a free TrackyTry license that allows you to experiment with all features. To get rid of the limitations, you can buy a TrackyPro license which is based on your User name. The user name can be configured in your PDA settings, see http://www.trackthisout.com/UsernameHelp.html. You can fill-in the license key that you will receive after buying a license, and activate it by pressing Register. Configure Online Services The menu config gives access to the Online Services dialogue. Online Services dialogue. Online services are services that require internet connectivity. Tracky currently supports the following online services: GoogleMaps download, TrackMe, and Geocoder. In order to use these services, you must be registered so that the server can properly provide the required online services for your device. Registration for online services is free. It even works in combination with the free TrackyTry license. To register for online services, just specify your email address and a password, and press the button Register. Configure language The menu config gives access to the Language configuration dialogue. Language configuration dialogue. You can choose your preferred language. All texts, buttons, and pop-ups will appear in the selected language. Configure settings The menu config gives access to the settings dialogues. Config settings, tab Overlay. Config settings, tab Units. Config settings, tab PDA. Tab Overlay allows you to control the visualization of the overlays: - User : show/hide user, and set icon - Direction : show/hide triangular shape indicating your current direction, and set its style and size - Labels : show/hide labels, and set label style - Zoom : show/hide zoom bar - Basic info : show/hide basic info (distance home-user-target, GPS status , speed) - Compass : show/hide the compass - Locator : enable/disable the position information Tab Units allows you to configure the units. Different units can be selected for speed, distance, and altitude. Furthermore, an offset can be configured. The altitude offset corrects the altitude indication. A northing/easting offset corrects the placement of GoogleMaps. Use this if the GoogleMaps show-up at a consistently wrong position. Finally, the basis for the „time per distance‟ can be given, see the Dashboard tool. Tab PDA allows you to configure/overrule some PDA settings: - enable audio spoken navigation hints : enable/disable the audio samples which warn you about the GPS lock found/lost, and the - never turn off device : when checked, the device will never turn off (or hybernate, or go to standby), even if you specified some timeout in your general PDA settings - never turn off backlight general PDA settings : when checked, the backlight will never turn off, even if you specified some timeout in your Config settings, tab Data. Config settings, tab Internet. Config settings, tab Track. Tab Data allows you to set the primary and secondary data folders. These folders are used at start-up to read all maps and GPX files. The primary folder is used to store newly created GPX files. When you change these data folders, a restart of Tracky is required to read all data from it. The checkbox tells the application if files should be save in UNICODE format (otherwise ASCII is used). The UNICODE character set is much bigger which allows you to use „strange characters‟ in the tracks and POI names and descriptions. The drawback of saving files in UNICODE format is that UNICODE files consume twice as much storage space compared to ASCII files. Tab Internet enables you to allow/disallow for any internet communication. You can configure how to connect to internet via the two combo boxes. Furthermore, you can see how much data has been uploaded and downloaded over your internet connection since Tracky has been started up. By this you can keep an eye on your mobile operator expenses. The cache size determines how much data can be stored locally before it will be deleted. Locally stored data is reused as much as possible to save on download capacity. For now, the cache is used for downloaded GoogleMaps, but the cache may be used for other purposes in the future. The cache utilization shows how much cache space has already been used. If the cache utilization reaches the cache size, then downloaded files (GoogleMaps) will be deleted so that they must be downloaded again once you want to access them. The cache folder allows you to set the location of the cache. Typically, you should use your external memory for this since it requires quite some memory. Tab Track allows you to configure how tracks are being recorded and how stored tracks are being loaded. GPS devices usually output samples with position information each second. Tracky can be configured such that all these samples are being recorded. This however costs considerable storage size. Therefore, more advanced options are supported to allow you to compress tracks by only storing samples of interest: - max time : if enabled (checked), samples are at least stored each x seconds. - max distance : if enabled (checked), samples are at least stored each x meters. - max deviation : if enabled (checked), samples are at least stored when the track deviates more then x meters from what can be extrapolated from already stored samples. The above strategies can be combined by checking multiple options. It is strongly recommended to use the settings as shown in the screenshot above, because these give the best results in general: hi-precession tracks with acceptable file size. Config settings, tab Target. Config settings, tab Grid. Config settings, tab Datum. Tab Target allows you to configure the target to which navigation should take place. - Target - Trainer - : show/hide target, and set icon : show/hide trainer, and set icon 1. constant speed: the trainer will move along the targeted track at the given constant speed 2. relative performance: the trainer will move along the targeted track at a speed relative to the speed when the track was being recorded. 110% means that the trainer will be moving 10% faster then recorded. 90% means that the trainer will move 10% slower then recorded. reverse track : Normally if a track is selected as target, the navigation hints will lead you from start to finish of this track. Check this checkbox if you want to navigate along the track in reversed direction, i.e., from finish to start of the track. Tab Grid allows you to configure the grid to be used, see supported grids. Grids and their associated zones are widely used in cartography, i.e., (paper) maps. If you have such maps, then you can use this feature to find e.g. your current position on these maps. First configure the required grid in this settings dialogue, and then use the grid tab in the locator tool to inspect and/or set the position based on this grid. The checkbox „Set grid to visible map‟ will automatically select the grid which is associated with a map once this maps is visible. Maps will only be shown when its grid corresponds with the configured grid. So by checking this box it is ensured that your maps are visible. You can also enable/disable the grid, and set its style (the value for step represents the distance between the grid lines). The grid will automatically fade away if zoomed out too far and the grid lines would have cluttered the screen. Tab Datum allows you to configure the datum to be used, see supported datums. By default, GPS positions are given in the so called WGS_84 datum. Other datums do however exist, which all try to better model the earth shape by means of different shaped ellipsoids. All coordinates that show up in Tracky are given in the selected datum. Import/export Data for tracks/POIs and maps is stored in one of the two configurable data folders on your PocketPC. You can use the files in these folders to exchange tracks/POIs and maps with others. The data folders will only be processed when (re)starting Tracky. To import/export files, first connect your PocketPC with you PC with a serial/USB cable or via Infra Red or WiFi. Now start Microsoft® ActiveSync® and select Explore in the menu bar to browse to the mentioned folder on your PocketPC. Now you can either import files in Tracky, i.e., copy files from your PC to one of the data folders, or export files by copying them from your PocketPC to your PC. The table below gives an overview of the supported file formats. extension type format .gpx POIs/track file .gif map picture Graphics Interchange Format .bmp map picture Windows® Bitmap .jpg map picture Joint Photographic Experts Group GPS Exchange Format .ico map picture Windows® Icon .png map picture Portable Network Graphics .txt map calibration file Tracky map calibration format. A map calibration file