Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Group Forum: GPS :: portage tracks for Quetico
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If anybody has any suggestions regarding portage tracks, whether it's with quetico.info or not, we can all learn from our shared experiences and data. It's interesting what butthead mentioned, "the tracks that I supplied will not be the same as someone else's, and likely changed from May to the same basic portage tracked in Oct." I noticed that the more frequently a GPS pings the satellite, the more accurate the portage track will be, however, things like heavy tree cover will distort the satellite signal and affect how the track is recorded by the GPS. I noticed this when I walked a portage with heavy tree cover, it was in a narrow valley. I walked across the portage and then returned and the GPS recorded two distinct separate tracks for the exact same narrow trail. |
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butthead |
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schweady |
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RC |
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quote MagicPaddler: "I have tracks from several trips. They are of the whole trip rout paddled as well as portages. I would be willing to share them. " Let's try it with your tracks as a first test. I don't know much about GPS but if you can save the track as a .gpx (or whatever) type of file and email it to me, I'll try pulling it into Garmin BaseCamp. When I used the portage file from Arch Harris, I loaded it into BaseCamp and then used the mouse to drag over and select all the waypoint/tracks that were not on my route and then deleted them. I hope it will be similar with your tracks, I should be able to delete everything except the portages. Then I can do the same thing with my tracks and see if I can combine the two sets of tracks. |
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OldGreyGoose |
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RC |
MagicPaddler, thanks for your feedback. Please check the website when you have time and let me know if you can view it now. |
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MagicPaddler |
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dentondoc |
quote MagicPaddler: "I tried with and without the WWW on Chrome and IE. No luck. Any one get on RC”s sight?" MP - I'll e-mail it to you. dd |
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MagicPaddler |
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RC |
I created a website for Quetico paddlers to upload their GPS portage track files and download the latest .gpx file with the combined, verified, accurate portage tracks. Let me know if you have any suggestions for the website. http://www.quetico.info/ |
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RC |
quote MagicPaddler: "I cant open (http://www.quetico.info/)" What web browser are you using? I just realized that the site is not working in Internet Explorer, I had only checked it in Google Chrome browser. I'll make some fixes so that it works in IE and then hopefully it will work for you. Until then, try it without the www and see if that works. http://quetico.info |
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MagicPaddler |
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RC |
quote OldGreyGoose: "Mapped yes. GPSed, only a small portion. Would like to see ALL Quetico portgages GPSed with comments. This can be done by anyone using GPS and submitting the tracks to the "quetico.info" I want to thank everybody who has contributed GPS portage tracks to the site. Some folks send their tracks after every trip. I have received some portage tracks that I haven't added to the site yet because I'm holding off on the next update because I think I might get some new GPS tracks soon and I plan update them all at the same time. I looked at other portage data available and even though adding those portage tracks to the site would increase the total number of portage tracks available, I decided to stick with only portages that someone has walked recently (verified and accurate). |
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butthead |
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butthead |
I have info for Delorme Topo also, butthead |
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butthead |
Are you looking for any specific portages, or new as in bushwhacking or undocumented portages? butthead |
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OldGreyGoose |
http://quetico.info/ |
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RC |
quote butthead: "RC, I take it that you have at least the 660+ portage tracks from the old Quetico portage database. If you do not I can email them to ya, it's a 734 KB .gpx file. Anyone else? |
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RC |
I am interested in getting tracks from anyone paddling in the Q and adding the portage tracks to a general portage track file that would be available to anyone who is interested. The portage tracks obtained from the GPS will trace an accurate path from lake to lake and have accurate elevation and length info. I don't know much about GPS and I don't know if tracks from one type of GPS are similar to other types of GPS units. Is this possible? Can the portage tracks be uploaded/downloaded as a .gpx file? Any advice or suggestions are appreciated. |
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MagicPaddler |
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butthead |
Lots of thing can be done with .gpx .loc .kml .kmz .gdb .tcx .jpg .jpeg files across platforms. butthead |
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butthead |
Remember each GPS/user will generate track differences, and seasonal/yearly portage changes occur regularly. Red Pine Map with PCD portages overlaid. Delorme Canadian 50k (portages marked black dashed line) PCD portages (red dotted line), my PN40se track 2012 (yellow dot trail) butthead |
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RC |
quote butthead: "I will need to convert the track files" Do you need to convert the track files to .gpx or can I upload the file type that you have to BaseCamp? |
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