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Upload points to your GPS

After you have drawn your farm map, you may want to upload points back to your GPS so that you can find them in the paddock.

To upload a point:

  1. Click the Edit Button  ‘Edit’ button in the menu bar.
  2. Click Send to GPS ‘Send To GPS’
  3. Click the point on your map that you would like to upload.
  4. Give your waypoint a name and optional comment, then click ‘Upload waypoint to GPS’. Follow any further instructions on screen.
  5. Your point is now uploaded to the GPS. Repeat this procedure for any other points you wish to find out on your farm.

Some GPS units will let you upload an entire layer at a time from WMC Map

To upload a layer:

  1. Right-mouse-click on the name of the layer that you wish to send to your GPS unit
  2. Click on “Send to GPS”
  3. In the next window that comes up, click on “Upload Layer to GPS”.

Finding your uploaded points out on the farm

Your GPS can be used to find points you have created on your map on your PC out on the farm. To do this you must first upload the points you wish to find out on the farm as explained above.

Steps to finding points:

GPS60 Series

 

Oregon and Dakota Series

  1. Out in the field, power up your GPS and wait for it to initialise and lock on to enough satellites to give you a fix.
  2. Press FIND.
  3. Press ENTR with the ‘Waypoints’ icon selected.
  4. Using the rocker pad, scroll to the waypoint you wish to locate. Press ENTR.
  5. ‘Go To’ will be highlighted. Press ENTR.
  6. The map screen will show up, showing a line that looks like a road between your current position and the point you are navigating towards. Use the IN and OUT buttons to zoom in and out, and the rocker pad to pan around the map.
  7. Press PAGE to view the compass screen which has an arrow showing you which direction to walk in, and tells you how far you need to walk to find the point.
To find another point, simply repeat this procedure from step 2

 
  1. Out in the field, power up your GPS and wait for it to initialise and lock on to enough satellites to give you a fix.
  2. Press Where To? from the main menu.
  3. Then press Waypoints.
  4. Select the waypoint you would like to go to from the list.
  5. The waypoint you have selected will then come up on the screen. If you are happy this is the correct waypoint, press the Go button.
  6.  The map screen will show up, showing a line that looks like a road between your current position and the point you are navigating towards. Use the + and - buttons to zoom in and out.
  7. Press Compass from the main menu to view the compass screen which has an arrow showing you which direction to walk in, and tells you how far you need to walk to find the point.
  8. To find another point, simply repeat this procedure from step 2.