Another 7 digit waypoint question

[+purple_pineapple]

Easy question - I have a standard etrex, 6 digits, yadda yadda... How can I get the various stages of a multi, in child waypoint form, onto my etrex? the new waypoints effectively have 5 digits (%drop2) and the stages are labelled S1, S2, etc (usually).

 

Any thoughts? I'm stumped!

 

Dave

 

PS - apologies if that has been asked elsewhere!

[+sTeamTraen]

Easy question - I have a standard etrex, 6 digits, yadda yadda... How can I get the various stages of a multi, in child waypoint form, onto my etrex? the new waypoints effectively have 5 digits (%drop2) and the stages are labelled S1, S2, etc (usually).

 

For the moment, you can drop the first three digits, since there were no GC0xxx 6-digit cache names. But once we get to GC11000, you'll have possible ambiguity with GC1xxx. However, very few caches that old have additional WPs. So you may have a year or more before you need a new GPS.

[+minstrelcat]

Using %c_Code1 will give you a one character child code rather than 2, so if you use that with the %drop2 you will only have 6 characters. Or you could use the smart names.

 

Lisa

[+walkergeoff and wife]

Using %c_Code1 will give you a one character child code rather than 2, so if you use that with the %drop2 you will only have 6 characters. Or you could use the smart names.

 

Lisa

How do you get smart names child codes to limit to six characters, when the smart name itself is set to 6 characters? Since the child code adds a character to the name, wouldn't the smart name have to be limited to 5 or 4, which really removes the advantage of smart names?

 

I would love an excuse to buy a more up-to-date GPS - but somehow I think that the workarounds will work!

[+minstrelcat]

Using %c_Code1 will give you a one character child code rather than 2, so if you use that with the %drop2 you will only have 6 characters. Or you could use the smart names.

 

Lisa

How do you get smart names child codes to limit to six characters, when the smart name itself is set to 6 characters? Since the child code adds a character to the name, wouldn't the smart name have to be limited to 5 or 4, which really removes the advantage of smart names?

 

I would love an excuse to buy a more up-to-date GPS - but somehow I think that the workarounds will work!

 

Personally, I use %smart %children %smart%c_Prefix with6 character smart names to create the waypoint names, but then our GPSRs take 8 character names.

 

If I was limited to 6 characters I think I would use %smart %children %smart%c_Code1 and use 5 character smart names - but I agree, the name would get hard to make out, especially with a cache series with similar names. You would have 4 charcters for the cache name, one character to differentiate between the caches and one character for the child waypoint suffix.

 

Lisa

Edited January 3, 2007 by minstrelcat

[+purple_pineapple]

Easy question - I have a standard etrex, 6 digits, yadda yadda... How can I get the various stages of a multi, in child waypoint form, onto my etrex? the new waypoints effectively have 5 digits (%drop2) and the stages are labelled S1, S2, etc (usually).

 

For the moment, you can drop the first three digits, since there were no GC0xxx 6-digit cache names. But once we get to GC11000, you'll have possible ambiguity with GC1xxx. However, very few caches that old have additional WPs. So you may have a year or more before you need a new GPS.

 

Hmm - not sure I understand - If I drop the first three from a 6 digit wpt, then i cannot tell the difference between, say, GCM123 and GCT123. If you mean (as I originallyt thought you did) that I can keep these as 4 digits, but drop the leading 3 characters from a 7 digit wpt, then that would work well, but is that possible? can GSAK tell the difference? one for the gsak forums i think...

 

Dave