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@ -12,15 +12,14 @@ So get this essential data onto your phone (or handheld GPS).
<p><b>SAFETY</b>. Turn on <b>location tracking</b> in Google Maps (or OsmAnd) before you leave the car park and share your location with someone you know at basecamp and also with someone you know at top camp. This will show your last known location if you walk into an area of bad signal.
<p>
We have a regularly-updated file of the wiggly tracks of the paths we regularly take: from Loser Alm car park to the col, top camp and Homecoming cave,
and from top camp to Fisch Gesicht H&ouml;hle and to Tunnocks's, Balkonh&ouml;hle and Organh&ouml;hle.
We have a file of the wiggly tracks of the paths we regularly take: from Loser Alm car park to the col, top camp and caves currently being visited.
<p>[It also has the Austrian "kataster boundaries": these are <b>not paths</b> but separate areas with
different mapping designations.
These are the smooth, curved lines.]
The file also includes all the cave entrances for the entire Schvartzmoosk&ouml;gel system (SMK).</p>
<a href="http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/gpslogs/essentials/essentials2019.gpx"><img src="essentials-screenshot.jpg" alt="screenshot of the GPS file"></a>
The file also includes all the cave entrances for the entire Schwartzmoosk&ouml;gel system (SMK).</p>
<a href="http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/gpslogs/essentials/essentials.gpx"><img src="essentials-screenshot.jpg" alt="screenshot of the GPS file"></a>
<p><b>Don't be misled by the apparent simplicity</b> of the above tracks. The plateau is very broken and is
an unremitting extent of cliffs, holes and impassable dwarf-larch scrub ("bunde" as it is known on expo).
@ -29,14 +28,14 @@ col leading to the plateau is comparatively easy is it is an obvious path, and m
<h2>How to get this essential data onto your device</h2>
<p>Either
<p>Do one of</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#sideways">Download the data to your phone from an online GPS app</a> - recommended
<li><a href="#down">Download the GPX file from the expo server direct to computer/phone/GPS</a> - recommended
<li><a href="#up">Upload the GPX file to phone/GPS from computer</a>
</ul>
<p>or
<p>or, if you can't get those to work</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="#down">Download the GPX file from the expo server</a> - hard
<li><a href="#up">Upload the GPX file to your device</a> - harder
<li><a href="#sideways">Download the data to your phone from an online GPS app</a>
</ol>
<h2 id="sideways">Get GPS essentials from an online service</h2>
@ -50,24 +49,35 @@ when you click on this). Or here is another <a href="https://www.wikiloc.com/wik
<h2 id="down">Download the GPS essentials file from the expo server</h2>
<p>The most recent 2019 GPX file can be downloaded from here:
<a href="http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/gpslogs/essentials/essentials2019.gpx" download>essentials2019.gpx</a> (596K).
<p>The most recent GPX file can be downloaded from here:
<a href="https://expo.survex.com/expofiles/gpslogs/essentials/essentials.gpx" download>essentials.gpx</a> (596K).
<p>The most recent entrances-only GPX file can be downloaded from here:
<a href="https://expo.survex.com/expofiles/gpslogs/essentials/entrances.gpx" download>entrances.gpx</a> (60K).
<p>(There are also individual tracks <a href="https://expo.survex.com/expofiles/gpslogs/essentials/">downloadable here</a>)</p>
<p>
Phones have a problem with a simple link like that.
This is easy on a laptop, but phone browsers make it difficult to download a simple link like that - just clicking will usually (unhelpfully) display it in the browser.</p>
<p>You need to long-click and pick 'download file' or 'download link' (chrome). Then either:
<ol>
<li>Go to your 'Downloads' folder and tap on the GPX file, which should offer to load it in OSMand, or whatever other map software you use, or</li>
<li>Go into OSMand, select 'My places' and 'IMPORT', then select the file.</li>
</ol>
</p>
<p>OSMand defaults to not displaying labels on the caves. Go to 'configure map', and turn on 'Point Labels (POI, Favourites)'.</p>
<h2 id="up">Upload the GPS essentials file to your device</h2>
<p>
This is where it gets tricky because every device and phone app does this differently.
This is where it gets tricky because every device and phone app does this differently.</p>
<h3>GPS phone apps</h3>
<p>
This should work the same way whether you have an iPhone or an Android phone.
<p>We do not have a recommended app as there is nothing we have found which quite does quite what we need. We are using
<a href="http://www.gpsessentials.com/">www.gpsessentials.com</a> and <a href="https://osmand.net/">OsmAnd</a> so try one of these first. If you discover a good app, tell everyone about it.
<p>We recommended <a href="https://osmand.net/">OsmAnd</a> as it is very capable, but you can use others.
<p>
Visit the <a href="http://www.gpsessentials.com/">www.gpsessentials.com</a> website and read the manual (top left, on the menu bar: "Manual") for how to do this.
Except that the manual doesn't tell you.
<p>The OsmAnd documentation says:
<ul>
<li>"The simplest way to view a track you've downloaded is to tap on it in your device's file manager and choose to open it in OsmAnd. After that, you'll see the track in My places - My tracks or in the Dashboard - My tracks."
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<p>and this will need to be hand-edited into script-generated essentials.gpx file.
<p>The most recent 2019 GPX file can be downloaded from here:
<a href="http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/gpslogs/essentials/essentials2019.gpx" download>essentials2019.gpx</a> (596K).<br>
This is actually entirely hand-edited from original tracks. The only survex data it uses is the entrances waypoints which are exported
by the script which has been hand-edited in. It also has the kataster boundaries hand-edited in.
<p>The 17 July 2018 version
can be downloaded from here : <a href="essentials.gpx" download>essentials.gpx</a> (190K).
(This is a symlink to loser/gpx/essentials.gpx). This works fine on laptops but most phones don't like this sort of link.
<h3>Regenerating the essentials.gpx file</h3>
<p>There are two scripts needed for this: