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<DIV>You are quite right - old habit using this tool - for up and downloading to GPS.</DIV>
<DIV>But if you use an older GPS, you canĀ“t open a file direct from the GPS. Has to use the GPS tool.</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards</DIV>
<DIV>Lene Fischer<BR><BR>>>> Lee Hachadoorian <Lee.Hachadoorian+L@gmail.com> 23-04-2012 19:25 >>><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_extra>Can I ask why it's recommended to use the GPS Tool plugin? I was recently working with GPX data and just used the standard Add Vector Layer.<BR><BR>Best,<BR>--Lee<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Nick Hopton <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:nhopton@gmail.com" target=_blank>nhopton@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"><BR>Des Callaghan wrote<BR>
<DIV class=im>><BR>> Many thanks Lene and Nick, this worked a treat. Combined with the Google<BR>> Satellite basemap, imported using the fantastic 'OpenLayers' plugin, this<BR>> is<BR>> just what I needed. Many thanks for your help. Best wishes, Des<BR>><BR><BR></DIV>Just a couple of points arising, Des. It's very useful to be able to overlay<BR>your own data on OpenLayers to get a visual indication of of how well it<BR>fits. But OpenLayers use a very peculiar CRS which can make it unsafe to do<BR>thing like use the tape measure for measuring distances or the area tool for<BR>measuring areas. The other thing is that closing OpenLayers will leave your<BR>project CRS in the Google Projection, fix this by resetting your project<BR>projection to your shapefile layer projection. If you would like some GB<BR>base maps to use with your GPS data you could try OS OpenData VectorMap<BR>District Rasters. They are pretty base too, but accurate.<BR><BR>Nick.<BR><BR><BR>--<BR>View this message in context: <A href="http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GPX-OS-Grid-References-and-Google-Earth-tp4907061p4910779.html" target=_blank>http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GPX-OS-Grid-References-and-Google-Earth-tp4907061p4910779.html</A><BR>
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