From bef7faaacc4b81007d174af88df40476b4875dab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Expo on server Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2022 21:19:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update Essentials.html for OSMand generic paths. --- essentials.gpx | 2 +- handbook/essentials.gpx | 1 - handbook/essentials.html | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) delete mode 120000 handbook/essentials.gpx diff --git a/essentials.gpx b/essentials.gpx index a8e9b18c1..c8cd83cd6 120000 --- a/essentials.gpx +++ b/essentials.gpx @@ -1 +1 @@ -/home/expo/expofiles/gpslogs/essentials/essentials2019.gpx \ No newline at end of file +/home/expo/expofiles/gpslogs/essentials/essentials.gpx \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/handbook/essentials.gpx b/handbook/essentials.gpx deleted file mode 120000 index 00b1ff271..000000000 --- a/handbook/essentials.gpx +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -/home/expo/loser/gpx/essentials.gpx \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/handbook/essentials.html b/handbook/essentials.html index e1469aa14..c8f197b2e 100644 --- a/handbook/essentials.html +++ b/handbook/essentials.html @@ -12,15 +12,14 @@ So get this essential data onto your phone (or handheld GPS).

SAFETY. Turn on location tracking 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.

-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 Höhle and to Tunnocks's, Balkonhöhle and Organhöhle. +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.

[It also has the Austrian "kataster boundaries": these are not paths but separate areas with different mapping designations. These are the smooth, curved lines.] -The file also includes all the cave entrances for the entire Schvartzmooskögel system (SMK).

-screenshot of the GPS file +The file also includes all the cave entrances for the entire Schwartzmooskögel system (SMK).

+screenshot of the GPS file

Don't be misled by the apparent simplicity 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

How to get this essential data onto your device

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Either +

Do one of

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or +

or, if you can't get those to work

    -
  1. Download the GPX file from the expo server - hard -
  2. Upload the GPX file to your device - harder +
  3. Download the data to your phone from an online GPS app

Get GPS essentials from an online service

@@ -50,24 +49,35 @@ when you click on this). Or here is another Download the GPS essentials file from the expo server -

The most recent 2019 GPX file can be downloaded from here: -essentials2019.gpx (596K). +

The most recent GPX file can be downloaded from here: +essentials.gpx (596K). +

The most recent entrances-only GPX file can be downloaded from here: +entrances.gpx (60K). +

(There are also individual tracks downloadable here)

-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.

+ +

You need to long-click and pick 'download file' or 'download link' (chrome). Then either: +

    +
  1. 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
    2. +
  2. Go into OSMand, select 'My places' and 'IMPORT', then select the file.
    3. +
+

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OSMand defaults to not displaying labels on the caves. Go to 'configure map', and turn on 'Point Labels (POI, Favourites)'.

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Upload the GPS essentials file to your device

-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.

GPS phone apps

This should work the same way whether you have an iPhone or an Android phone. -

We do not have a recommended app as there is nothing we have found which quite does quite what we need. We are using -www.gpsessentials.com and OsmAnd so try one of these first. If you discover a good app, tell everyone about it. +

We recommended OsmAnd as it is very capable, but you can use others.

-Visit the www.gpsessentials.com 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. +

The OsmAnd documentation says: