GPZ GPS Security

[jasong]

How do you deal with the crippled storage capacity of the GPZ GPS? 100 waypoints/findpoints seems kinda useless to me, I've found a couple patches that had over 100 nuggets from each patch and that exceeds the capacity of the machine.

 

Just for reference, I have almost 7500 waypoints and over 1500 tracks on my phone right now. I always have them on no matter where I go, sometimes I'll visit 5 or 6 different areas in a day and they need to be there. Transferring them off means they aren't on my machine, so its not much use in the field to me.

 

Or am I not understanding how it works? I tried it for a few days and gave up on it.

[vanursepaul]

I'm Sure you meant The 7005, And did not mean to lead them A Stray

 

The 7005 comes with a Taser Built into the hand grip on the GPS Button, just To discourage them Nosey Types,

 

Oh my--Good catch!!!

 

I will chang4e that now before anyone goes bonkers...lolol

[auminesweeper]

Oh my--Good catch!!!

 

I will chang4e that now before anyone goes bonkers...lolol

A True Pioneer, So Fearless,

[Steve Herschbach]

More space would be good but if you ever had that detector stolen you would lose it all (but still agree more space is better). I dumped my data to XChange every couple days. Once copied from the GPZ you can delete all the data or portions of the data on the GPZ from XChange with a single command. If you do it from the GPZ it is manually one at a time unless you do a Reset Geostore.

You do not have to be online and logged in to move data from the detector to XChange. The only reason to be online or logged in is to see the data overlaid on Google Maps. I used XChange while in the middle of nowhere and no internet to dump data for storage. If doing this you have to manually keep a list of what each track name means as far as general location or wait until you have an Internet connection to map it. This is one reason why an export function is so critically needed. We need to be able to export to other programs that have offline mapping capability, or XChange needs a redesign to work with downloaded maps. Export would be far preferred by everyone with existing data from other sources and working systems already in place.

[flakmagnet]

This doesn't work for a Mac does it?

[Steve Herschbach]

Yes, if you use Bootcamp, or in my case Parallels. There is no native Mac app.

[AUddicted]

I've been using the GPS map/Geohunt feature of the 7000 for about 4 days detecting  now, I liked it to begin with, but with only 100 find points and 10 Geo trails and its full, I filled the find points all 100 of them in less than 4 days and everytime you want to turn the detector off you have to save the Geotrail or it gets lost without warning, so 10 trails don't take long to fill up.

 

 

So if you turn off the machine at lunch time then want to resume afterwards, you're starting another Geo trail and have now used up 2 of the 10?

[brogansown]

I don't own a GPZ, but do have a Garmin Dakota with the private property chip to make sure I am on property I should be detecting.  By setting the GPS to tracking I could follow my every footstep and know whether I have painted the "patch" completely.  I haven't done this yet, but can see that this would be a great way to know that every square foot of the "patch" gets covered.  The white areas that were missed would stand out and were probably covered by brush, or we subconciously just avoided an area cause it doesn't look right, etc.

 

I assume the gps in the 7000 can do this too and would, I think, be a great tool for just this purpose. I don't really see a security issue unless the unit gets stolen and the past information wasn't wiped.  

[Steve Herschbach]

So if you turn off the machine at lunch time then want to resume afterwards, you're starting another Geo trail and have now used up 2 of the 10?

No, there is not a limit on number of tracks, there is a limit on total memory used by way GPS data stored.