Overview; Getting Started - satmap active10 Full User Manual

1.00 Overview

1.00 Overview
Welcome to the world of GPS mapping!
The Active 10 is an intuitive unit, easy to use.
Switch it on, wait for a couple of minutes and
your position is shown as being the centre of
the screen. As you move, so does the map.
The unit is weatherproof and the screen is
backlit which means it can be used day or
night in any weather.
OS maps are sold separately on SD cards.
The unit is supplied with a world map showing
major roads, towns and cities and a UK road
map.
The Active 10 is a standalone unit and you
can plan routes on it whilst in the great
outdoors. Satmap's online Route Planner
allows the download of pre-planned routes,
the upload of routes for editing and the
printing of a paper version of the route to
take as back-up when outdoors.
The rock-steady bike bracket accessory
makes the unit ideal for mountain biking
and the unit is tailor-made for geocaching.

1.01 Getting Started

Outdoors, the unit should get a lock within
three minutes. If it takes much longer, please
contact Satmap. Hibernate mode allows
rapid satellite lock as the unit remembers the
satellites' position (available via the Platform
Software Upgrade card from satmap.com).
In this manual, displays of mapping are
referred to as 'screens' and displays of other
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information are referred to as 'pages'. The
main mapping screen is titled GPS Map
(section 3.00). Use the zoom buttons, shown
in section (ii), for detail/perspective.
Moving the joystick changes the screen to
the PLANNING screen (section 6.00); the
blue position indicator circle will move away
from the middle of the screen as you control
the joystick to move the map. A visual cue
that you are in planning mode is the orange
locator circle which has longer crosshairs.
In planning mode you can plan routes and
also study the map using the joystick to pan
(keep it pressed in the desired direction and
the map moves faster).
Although you will not get more detail than that
available with 1:25k scale mapping, zooming
in to closer scales allows magnification of
detail which is sometimes hard to make out
on paper maps.
Whilst stationary, the unit will appear to be
recording travelled distance and ascended
height. This is due to the way GPS works.
On car devices, filtering and 'locking' masks
the effect, but the Active 10 is designed for
a different purpose and its sensitivity means
that incremental differences in 'fixes' accrue,
resulting in an incorrect log. The unit gives
accurate data once moving.
The TRIP LOG page has a Start/Stop
for data logging. To clear previous data,
press the Menu button, then choose a reset
option. To begin data logging, press Start.
If you pause, say, for lunch, press
5
remember to press
Press Stop when you finish the route. A Stop/
Record icon next to the battery indicator shows
whether the data log is paused or recording.
Until Reset is pressed, the unit will operate as
if you are following a single route. This means
that if you press Stop, then relocate by car for
example, on pressing
journey is represented by a straight line crumb
trail and the data log will incorporate the car
journey.
An advantage of buying the rechargeable
battery is that you should always be able to set
off with a fully charged battery which means
no break in contacts whilst changing batteries,
hence no loss of logged data. A second
advantage is that the rechargeable battery
lasts significantly longer than AAs.
To conserve battery power: press the front
right button until you see 'Settings', select
Settings, then
Automatic Screen Turn Off
3 minutes') by pushing the joystick sideways.
Press Done, then Map. The Trail Up facility is
disabled when in powersave mode.
As with most software products, there will
always be ongoing updates and developments.
We strive continually to improve our product
and value any feedback you may like to share
button with us. Please remember to register your
Active 10 online so that we can notify you of
updates which are available for download from
our website.
Stop but
Start when you resume.
Start again the car
Power Control
and then adjust
(to, say, 'Off after