4. Navigation
The navigation application is purely a means to guide the user to a point with known coordinate values. The points to be navigated are known in the GPS world as “Waypoints,” from their origin as destinations along the way. The user also has the option to navigate to points that have never been visited before.
Rather than having a special feature code for “Waypoints,” the Leica Geosystems GS20 uses a database flag in the feature that can be toggled to define a Waypoint as:
Flagged: As a feature that should be navigated to or
Visited: Providing closure to the workflow
Waypoints can be created in the Leica Geosystems GS20 by several methods:
•Selecting points graphically from the mapview in both Navigation and Data Management.
•Tabling a known feature and setting the database Waypoint flag in Data Management.
•Setting the node on a linear feature as a temporary Waypoint in both Navigation and Data Management.
•Creating a new Waypoint by entering known coordinates in Data Management.
•Uploading GIS or CAD data set with a Waypoint flag from Leica Geosystems GIS DataPro to the Leica GS20.
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