6.4.2   Working with a specific track

 

When you right click on the name of a track that you have already opened, you can carry out the following operations:

 

  Track properties: To open the properties window of the selected track.

 

  List of points: This option opens a smaller window at the bottom of the screen, naming all the points that make up the track, giving details of each of the day, time, latitude, longitude, altitude and speed for each o these points. These fields can be edited by double clicking on the point you want to work with.

 

  Close track: To close the selected track.

 

  Save track: This option saves track with the modifications you have made to it using the same name, so you will loose the information stored as the original track.

 

  Save in track book: This option saves the selected track in the track book that you have open at the time.

 

  Save track in trackbook: To save the track in the track book.

 

  Send to:

 

    Send track to a GPS: To load the track onto your GPS.

 

    Send to Pocket: To send the track to Pocket.

 

    Send by E-mail: This option opens an e-mail message, using your predetermined e-mail software, and includes the track file as an attachment.

 

  Graphics window: This option opens the graphics window with a representation of all the loaded tracks. Only the selected tracks of the data tree will be represented in the graph. Non-selected tracks won’t appear.

 

  Zoom here: This option adjusts the focus so that the course is clearly in view on the screen.

 

  Tools:

 

     Close all except this one: To close all the open tracks except the track you have selected.

 

     Move a track: This option allows you to move a track by modifying its coordinates and time values.

 

     Calculate altitude to surface for each point: If you also have a 3D landscape loaded, this function will assign the corresponding altitude reading to each of the track’s points. Once the operation is completed you will be informed that “Surface altitude readings for this track have been imported”.

 

     Incorporate pulsometer data from another file: This option allows you to incorporate the pulse readings, obtained by another instrument, to the track’s properties.

 

     Divide track into several tracks: This option allows you to separate into different tracks a group of tracks that you have downloaded from your GPS. This operation is normally carried out when you download tracks from a GPS but, using this tool, it can be carried out at any time.

 

     Eliminate stationary points at beginning and end: To remove the repetitive points at the beginning and end of the track.

 

     Reduce number of points: You will be asked to indicate a number of points and then the track will be re-drawn maintaining the same form as best possible but using only the number of points you have written.

 

     Assign time and speed: To assign a departure time and a constant speed to a track so that Land/Air can calculate the time to be assigned to each point of the track.

 

     Eliminate abnormal points: To remove any point that is situated too far away from the rest of the track, in which case it is considered to be an error.

 

     Convert a track into a route: To carry out this operation drag the track (holding down the left button of the mouse) from the track section to the route section of the tree. The new route will be made up of 10 points that will maintain the same course as the track. However, you will not be able to load this route onto the GPS.

 

     Modify the starting point of the track

 

     Reverse the track: reverse the track to start from its end.

 

  Track report: The user is able to print track templates with the most interesting data fields: day, departure time, duration, accumulated climb, mean speed, distance with height... It also includes two graphics: the general track map and the altitude graph during the trip. Depending on the device, it can also show data for heart beating rate, speed sensor rating and cadence’s revolutions per minute.

 

Before printing the report, the user is also able to choose between two different styles for template presentation: ‘File > Options > Tracks’. In order to print the report, follow these steps: ‘Contextual menu of the track > Tools > Track report’. Make a *.PDF file from it is also possible if the right PDF plug-in is installed.