Consistant out of alignment on eTrex Vista

MadMaxMel

Hi

I wonder if some1 might be able 2 help me?

I have had a Garmin eTrex Vista for several years now, but used it little until recently when I hooked it up with my PocketPC iPAQ H2210 running Memory Map OS 2004 and TomTom 3, however, the GPS appears to be providing position information consistantly out of alignment by the same amount, around 30 feet to the right.

I have gauged this by the plotting of the route on Memory Map whilst driving, where the red plot line is approx. 30 feet to the right of the road when heading north - constistantly.

TomTom aways plots my position about 30 feet behind where I know I am, no matter what the speed of travel (from 5 to 70mph) and often snaps onto an adjacent road even though I am in the middle lane of the M25.

My feeling is that the eTrex is providing consistantly wrongly aligned data to the iPAQ.

I have tried various "interface" settings including using "Garmin" and "NMEA Out", but each appear to provide the same result Sad

Can anyone help? - Any suggestions welcome,

Thanks

MadMaxMel :D

Smeggers · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:40 am Post subject: ... same problem

Hi MadMax,

I know this doesn't help you much, but I have exactly the same problem with my Etrex Summit and a Dell Axim X3.

Any help will be doubly appreciated!!!

Privateer · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:56 am Post subject:

Hi MadMaxMel and Smeggers,

Please update your profile to display your location, it does help us to help you. ;)

I’m going to guess that you are both located in the UK. If that’s the case then it’s probably a Map Datum issue.

What Map Datum have you got your Garmin units set to?
If it’s ORD SRVY GB then try WGS84.

Regards,
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Smeggers · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:25 am Post subject:

Privateer!!!!

Brilliant!!! It seems to work! Not tried it on the move yet - but at least its "found me" at work now!

Can't thank you enough!

MadMaxMel · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 12:07 pm Post subject:

Works perfect, and I am glad this post is still up, as I have just had my Garmin eTrex Vista replaced (FOC) by Garmin as my old one's display started breaking up (pixels going everywhere), making it eventually unreadable Sad

Thanks for all your help and thanks to Garmin.

I note that the unit shipped from Garmin with WGS84 as the datum Smile

Cheers

MadMaxMel

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