Lowrance electronic 6 - Manual (Page 67)

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move the cross-hair pointer over a route waypoint and right-click.
In the pop-up menu, click the
D
ELETE
W
AYPOINT
command. MapCreate
erases the waypoint and the magenta line linking the waypoint to
the route. To erase the route legs but leave the waypoints: open the
Route List window (shortcut key
F3 ), right-click the route name,
and in the pop-up menu click D
ELETE
R
OUTE
.
• You can easily reposition a route waypoint with your mouse. Just
move the cross-hair pointer or the zoom area pointer over the way-
point and right-click. In the pop-up menu, click
M OVE W AYPOINT
, and
the pointer grabs the route waypoint. Move it to the new position
and click to set it there
Now that you've created all the GPS information you want, you need to
prepare it for use in your GPS unit. We'll do that in the next lesson,
"Saving a GPS Data File."
Saving a GPS Data File
GPS Data Files (sometimes called "user files") can contain any combi-
nation of GPS information, including waypoints, event marker icons,
routes and trails. MapCreate and your GPS unit store all their GPS
data in this same file format. This makes it easy to move GPS data
back and forth between MapCreate and your GPS unit. Here's how:
(Refer as needed to the "Toolbars" section, beginning on page 35.)
1. With some type of GPS data displayed on the screen, click the S
AVE
GPS D ATA F ILE
button on the File toolbar. The Save As dialog box
appears.
Save GPS Data File dialog box.