What are Waypoints?
Depends on what you’re talking about. The most common definition would be “supplemental navigation points along an orienteering course”. If you’re using a compass (land navigation) to find your way from point “a” to point “b”, then your waypoints would be recognizable land formations (hilltop, stream, big ugly tree) where you stop to check your azimuth and heading. If you’re driving from New York to Florida, your waypoints would be the truck stops you visit to refuel & check that you’re still on the right highway. I guess we’re all correct. Here’s the Wikipedia reference. A waypoint is a mapped reference travelers can easily identify on the ground and use to verify their location. Waypoints may include natural rock formations, springs, oasis, or other permanent terrain feature. A waypoint may also be considered a fixed location with a specified longitude and latitude and UTM coordinates, which is maintained by a global positioning system (GPS). Waypoints mark a destination, a point alo
Waypoints are simply geographic tags associated with a livecast. They can be either continents, countries, cities or even neighborhoods. Waypoints can be input during the livecast, or afterwards. During Livecast: Go to SETTINGS screen, change Location selector to Waypoints. Go to the Livecast screen and select waypoint. After Livecast (from online PC): Sign in at www.livecast.com. From MY VIDEO, click the EDIT link of the desired livecast. Choose your desired waypoint from the waypoint selector. Waypoints are selectable starting at a continental level. Successive selection will allow finer detail of the waypoint.
Waypoints would be specific junctions. Trackpoints work much better for navigation purposes as you can have a lot more of them (thousands), so you’d use these to identify your whole route, twists, turns, and everything else. On the 305 these trackpoints can only be used when using courses (though additionally you may add coursepoints to notify you of specific junctions AND view waypoints on the “map” screen). The 6/705s make much more extensive use of the trackpoint system, however, as you can use both course and gpx files as well as waypoints/routepoints. Additionally, because the 6/705s allow the use of an actual map, you’ve also got auto-routing capabilities (though this isn’t going to be as useful off-road), POIs, etc.
