what Does Que Tracks do?

[Gr8rhino1]

Hello, I was wondering what the Que Tracks did. I understand that it tracks where you have been, but my question is can I use my saved tracks to navagate back to the place I was? All I have is the base map for Europe and it does not have alot of the roads I travel on and was wondering if I could use the Tracks program to "route to" a place I was at?

[Bokkie]

Originally posted by Gr8rhino1
Hello, I was wondering what the Que Tracks did. I understand that it tracks where you have been, but my question is can I use my saved tracks to navagate back to the place I was? All I have is the base map for Europe and it does not have alot of the roads I travel on and was wondering if I could use the Tracks program to "route to" a place I was at?

It does display a track of where you've been. The track usually appears in a very faint white line on the map, so choose your ambient lighting carefully. The tracks are much better viewed in Mapsource but you need to download Garmin's track conduit to get them off the iQue and onto your Palm desktop user tracks folder. The files are always called tracks.mps so make you copy any existing file that you might want to keep. They are overwritten without warning!

[apersson850]

To continue answering your question (Bokkie may have forgotten the last part ;) ), no, the iQue doesn't provide any Trackback function, unlike many other Garmin GPS units.

What you can do, is that you can save a track, by selecting the start and end time for the track log. Then you give this saved track a meaningful name, as well as some color. Hint: Yellow is as bad a choice for daytime navigation as black is for nighttime, unless you force the map display to the opposite mode.

Now, when you have saved the track, it's possible to set it to be visible on the map. Although you can't use the routing functions to follow the track, you can let the Map application display where you are, and thus follow the track manually.

Of course, at Garmin they think that you can just as well route to your destination, without following any particular track. If you don't have the proper detailed maps, then they most certainly think it's wise if you buy them. At least it is for their financial situation.

A combined trick could be to use the track log, together with the cheaper MetroGuide maps. Then you get detailed maps, but not routable. If you don't spend much time in Europe, then that may be a more cost effective method.

[Gr8rhino1]

Thanks for the help, I am very impressed with my IQUE so far but I wish it had a couple more things. First I would like a option that would allow me to pick major highways because it is so much quicker here in Germany when I can take the autobauhn. Second I would like a reverse routing option so I could find my way home when I get lost getting to a location. I have been in Germany for 2 years now and I still get lost all the time... Come on betty get me home!!:D

[apersson850]

Since custom routing is now available on the StreetPilot units, we can perhaps expect that to be included in the next release for the iQue as well. But that will probably not be until this autumn.

Then that will give you an ability to set priority to the large roads to maximum, and for medium and small roads to minimum. That's likely to make it favor highways.

To route you home isn't difficult. If you use Joseph's "Route me home" application, you can even do it with one keypress.

Otherwise, set a waypoint where you live, and route to that. If you do it frequently enough, it will always be in the Recent finds list.

Can't help asking, but how do you get lost like that, now when you do have the iQue?:confused: