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TopoFusion Pro / Re: network tool on very dense trail networks

« on: September 09, 2010, 11:44:19 AM »

I know this is an old post, but I'm just researching the network feature more and thought I'd put this on record for future searchers...

It sounds like the best thing to do is to use the recorded tracks as a guide and draw the track lines by hand, once they are manually drawn (where you could eliminate the gps errors and track overlaps) and get relatively good tracks, you could then create the network.

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: Topo Contour Lines in Meters or Feet?

« on: September 09, 2010, 11:39:16 AM »

At least my Garmin Topo 24k maps are in feet, I'll probably use those for the Whitney Area.  That's one thing I liked on the delorme is the ability to set which map shows at which zoom level.  That way you could toggle between two maps just by zooming in 1 level or out 1 level.  For the Garmin I'll just enable/disable Custom Maps as needed and have the best of both worlds

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: Merge Tracks assistance

« on: September 07, 2010, 06:14:15 AM »

Average is a good term.  I see it supporting the network feature becuase you'd want to average your same tracks down to one good track for each trail before then using the network feature.  The problem I have now with the network feature is that I don't have a good starting track to use as a base, but if I could average my tracks down to all good tracks then make a network out of them I would end up with a much more accurate network map. 

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: Topo Contour Lines in Meters or Feet?

« on: September 06, 2010, 07:14:26 PM »

I was looking at Topo maps of Mount Whitney near Lone Pine, CA and they look to be in Meters.

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: Merge Tracks assistance

« on: September 05, 2010, 05:03:26 PM »

Talk about jumping into this thread a little late...

I'm just getting the hang of the app and loving it so far.  There is definitely some language to pick up on but that's just the learning process.

I'm jumping in here because I was looking for a way to take several tracks of the same trail and "MERGE (haha)" them together to average them out and form one good track.  After working with the Merge tool I understand now that it's really a way of Joining Tracks.  Which would be the opposite I suppose of Splitting a track.

I really like the Network Trails feature.  Finding it a little difficult in the sense that my tracks are not all that clean, those spots where I've double-backed on a trail or walking around to find a spot to filter water, the Network Trails feature is almost a little too precise in the sense that it makes alternate trails and intersections out of all that stuff.

No real question here, just my input that if you did have a way to merge (oops. "average") two or more identical trails to create one good one that would be great

Thanks,

Kevin

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TopoFusion Pro / Topo Contour Lines in Meters or Feet?

« on: September 05, 2010, 03:51:31 PM »

Okay, I'm confused.  I thought the USGS Quads were all in feet, and thought the MyTopo maps were the same.  But now I see the mytopo maps in meters and the USGS Quads, well...some are feet and some are meters.  Is it just a matter of "be thankful what you get" or is there some way to get them all in feet?

Thanks,

Kevin

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TopoFusion Pro / Re: Remote Desktop and TF

« on: September 05, 2010, 03:46:21 PM »

I used TopoFusion with both VNC and Logmein (both are remote control products) and TopoFusion works fine with both, even 3D view (albeit slowly).  It must be something unique with how Remote Desktop handles video.  You should try Logmein, it's free.