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If the Show Course Line option is checked, a line will be drawn from the GPS vessel in the direction that the
GPS is headed.
Draw Range Ring Around Vessel
If the Draw Range Ring Around Vessel option is checked, a range ring some user-specified radius in size will
be drawn around the GPS vessel.
Mark Waypoint
Use the Mark Waypoint or Mark Waypoint from Averaged Positioncommand to save a point feature at the
current GPS location. When selected, this command will display a dialog allowing you to specify any
additional desired attributes and/or drawing styles that you would like to associate with the waypoint.
If you select the Averaged Position option, Global Mapper will start averaging locations received until you
choose to stop averaging, at which point you will be presented with the dialog described above. Averaging is
useful if you need a very accurate position for your waypoint.
Any created waypoint features will be added to the user features layer, which appears in the Overlay Control
Center. The waypoint features can be exported to any of the supported vector export formats.
Vessel Color
The Vessel Color command allows you to control what color the GPS vessel is displayed in.
Vessel Size
The Vessel Size submenu options allow you to control how large you would like the GPS vessel to be on
screen.
Vessel Shape
The Vessel Shape submenu options allow you to control the shape of the GPS vessel on screen.
Setup...
Global Mapper User's Manual
The Setup command displays the GPS Setup dialog (pictured below). The GPS Setup dialog allows you to tell
Global Mapper what port your GPS device is connected to your computer on and what format the GPS device
is communicating in. Make sure that you have your GPS device set to NMEA-0183 v2.x or Garmin mode.
There is also an Auto-Detect option which will cause Global Mapper to try and automatically determine your
GPS device's settings when you start tracking the device. You can also specify that you would like to read
GPS information from a text file containing NMEA-0183 sentences. The Data Logging section allows you to
setup logging of the incoming GPS information to new text files. You can choose to log decoded position
information (including latitude and longitude, elevation/depth, speed, heading, and time) in addition to raw
NMEA data strings for connected NMEA GPS devices.
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