82b - Recording Travel History
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Manual and Automatic Recording
There are three ways in which you can record where you have been, what time,
Track Visibility on XT Screen : Settings ? Map & Vehicle -> Map Layers -> Travel History ✓
Control Automatic Recording of Travel History Settings -> Device -> Travel History ✓
(This also turns on/off 'myTrends' and 'Where I have Been' as well as turning off the recording of Track Logs)
Automatically Recorded Tracks can be accessed in two ways
By Connecting the XT to a computer with the USB cable
or Internal Storage / GPX / Archive for the last 20 or so Archive logs which are numbered consecutively
or ...Internal Storage / .System / GPX / Archive for the most recent Archived DriveLognn.gpx files.
As far as I can tell, the DriveLog files are duplicates of the CurrentTrackLog and Archive files.
Both seemed to be turned off when Settings -> Device -> Travel History is turned off.
The .System menu is not visible by default. Enable it by entering the Hidden Configuration and Settings Menu:
Main Screen -> View Map -> Speed Button -> 10 sec press the Speedo top centre -> Configuration and Settings
Select MTP Settings and tick 'Show .System'.
From the Zumo XT Screen
Both of these methods show the same XT screen. There are two tabs down the right hand side of the landscape view. The calculator style icon will display all of the automatically recorded tracks showing the date and time that they were started and the distance covered in each track.
Basecamp has a number of tools to review your automatically recorded tracks - include drawing the map, producing a graph of recorded speed and elevation and pinpointing the location on the map. You can also Zoom in on particular section of the graph. This is available on the Graph Tab of the track, as shown in Pic 2.
More detail can be extracted from the Properties Tab where each recorded point is shown in a table format.
When the data from the track log is exported by Basecamp as a gpx file, some of this data is not included.
It is also possible to record a track manually
I have recently had problems with 'broken' active track logs - my XT leaves a gap often coinciding with route recalculations and requests to do a U-turn. The manually recorded tracks have not been affected by this issue.
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