LEI Electronics 6 manual Appendix 4 Considerations When Planning Highway Routes

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Appendix 4: Considerations When

Planning Highway Routes

Tips on Making Better Routes for Highway Navigation

How you make a highway route depends on your type of travel and whether you prefer to use the GPS unit's compass rose screen, the map screen or both for navigation. These factors determine how many route waypoints to use, and where you place them.

A simple, straight-legged route by water or by air is easy to make, as is a route following a square grid of city streets. Obstructions are usually few in number, and you're traveling in a more or less straight line from waypoint to waypoint.

Following a highway's twists and turns is different because all GPS units link route waypoints in straight lines.

Some navigators prefer to follow a route visually on the map. They glance at the route and the position indication arrow as the Custom Map moves across their GPS screen. With one look, they can see the route symbols and the highway they are following together, at the same time.

Other travelers prefer the simpler display provided by the compass rose screen. The compass rose can literally point the direction to steer toward the next waypoint in a route.

You may fall in yet another group of navigators who use both navigation techniques, switching back and forth between the map and compass rose screens during a journey.

"High Resolution" vs. "Low Resolution" Routes

MapCreate and your Lowrance or Eagle GPS unit are capable of remarkably precise "high resolution" routes that can follow every S- curve of a mountain highway. This type of route — with a relatively large number of waypoints per mile — is well-suited to compass rose navigation. With it, you can virtually ignore the map screen and arrive at your destination using only the compass rose.

Your GPS has a course deviation (or off course) alarm which will alert you when you drift too far to the right or left of your route's center line. There is also an arrival alarm, which alerts you when you get within a certain distance of a route waypoint. With a "high resolution" route, you can set the off course alarm and the arrival alarm to small distances somewhere between 0.1 and 0.5 miles. (You can turn the alarms off or on, and you have the option of turning the alarms' sound feature on or off as well.)

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Contents MapCreate6 LEI Extras Inc PO BOX Catoosa, OK USA Table of Contents Creating Rectangle Map Borders Creating Corridor Map Borders Center Master MapIntroduction Page How MapCreate Works File Formats & Functions GPS Data File Atlas File Page Custom Map File Size and Build Time Examples Mapping Detail Theres more here than meets the eye Cursor over Pop-up Exit symbol BoxCursor over POI symbol Pop-up box How to use this manual typographical conventionsMouse Page System Requirements Installation TypesUSA-West disc Data overlap area USA-East disc Installing MapCreateType D\setup.exe where D is the drive letter for your CD-ROM Page Page Care of your MapCreate CDs Starting MapCreate Easy Mode and Advanced Mode To add a direct shortcut to your Start Menu To add a direct shortcut to your desktopSection Working With MapCreate Advanced Mode Quick Start Reference Starting MapCreate MapSelect Screen MapCreate Screen MapCreate 6 opening screen Closing MapCreate Tips Selected Symbol Tip Box Map Category Options Window Tip Icon List Window Route Waypoint List Window Moving Around the Master Map Zoom Box Cross-hair Creating Rectangle Map Borders Handle Box Mouse Pointer Map Border Creating Corridor Map BordersPoint Saving a Map Border File Creating a Custom Map File Building Map Progress dialog box Save As dialog box appears Creating a Waypoint Delete Waypoint Creating an Icon Tip Creating a Route Tip Tips Saving a GPS Data File Creating a Corridor Map From a Route Borders around Route command Corridor Width slider bar Creating a Route From a Trail Plot Trail shown in green Page Appendix 1 MapCreate Command List Help Topics Command Search a Help document for the term map border Page County/Parish Marine Navaids AirportsCities CountriesPOI-Shopping POI-ServicesPOI-Marine POI-RestaurantsAppendix MapCreate 6 Symbol Key Page Page POI Appendix 4 Considerations When Planning Highway Routes Page Page Page LEI Databases License Agreement Databases Limited Warranty LEI Software License Agreement ONE-YEAR Media Warranty For Lowrance 800-324-1356. For Eagle How to Obtain Service…Accessory Ordering Information for all countries Visit our web site
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