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Nautical mile. Distance corresponding to one
minute of arc of latitude along any meridian,
1852m. A mile (‘statute mile’) is 1609m.
OOI. An Object of Interest. A collective term for
all 'points' of interest – POI, AOI, LOI Grids,
IOI. OOIs can include rich text and pictures.
Ordnance Survey (OS). Mapping provider for
Great Britain.
POI. A Point of Interest. A point on a map linked
to geo-referenced data (latitude/longitude),
displaying text or images with information
about that point (e.g. hotel, restaurant,
viewpoint, historical site, etc).
Primary screens. Eight main screens that give
you access to the key GPS features: GPS
MAP, PLANNING, POSITION INFO, TRIP
LOG, MAIN MENU, COMPASS, SHARED
DATA, GPS STATUS.
Rangender, The distance from your location
to a given point.
Route. A route is shown on the unit as a series
of transparent yellow or blue lines going from
waypoint to waypoint (with red arrows between
waypoints). A route may be planned either on
the unit or on a computer, and it may also be a
converted trail (known as a ‘track’).
Satellite. A GPS satellite used by the NAVSTAR
(Navigation Signal Timing and Ranging Global
Positioning System (GPS). The rst satellite in
the system, Navstar 1, was launched February
22, 1978.
SD Card. Secure Digital card (1MB – 4GB).
SDHC is Secure Digital High Capacity (4GB
– 32GB) card, which has a different internal
format. In the manual these are also referred
to as mapcards since they are pre-loaded with
digital mapping.
Soft keys. Buttons with functions that vary
depending on the screen displayed.
Target speed. The speed on which Estimated
Time of Arrival calculations are based if there
is no GPS lock, or there is a GPS lock and you
are stationary.
Toggle function. Allows users to select which
map they want to view at a particular point
without changing the zoom level. Only possible
if you have a toggle-enabled map card with
map layers of the same area.
Toggleable maps. Map cards that have been
toggle-enabled, i.e. contain more than one
scale or map type of a particular area, and
can therefore be used with the toggle function.
Toggle-enabled map cards are available from
our website. Older maps can also be converted
to enable toggling via the Toggleable Map
Service.
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Total Ascents. Sum of all the positive changes
in elevation.
Total Descents. Sum of all the negative
changes in elevation.
Track. A track is a trail that has been converted.
It effectively becomes a route (.map le) which
can then be exported as a GPX or KMZ le
for viewing on online planning software, e.g.
Google Earth.
Trail. The path taken, leaving behind a snail
trail.
Trail Up. The map is orientated to match the
ground ahead of you.
Trip Log. Records trip data.
True North. The direction along the earth’s
surface towards the geographic North Pole.
UTC (also GMT and Zulu Time). The worldwide
standard for time is coordinated universal time,
abbreviated UTC. This was formerly known as
Greenwich Mean Time, GMT. UTC is a high
precision atomic time standard also referred
to by the military and civil aviation as Zulu
time (Z). The abbreviation is a compromise
between CUT (Coordinated Universal Time)
and TUC (Temps Universel Coordonné).
UTM. The Universal Transverse Mercator
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