HOWTO: use downloaded tracks on the Quest

The Quest can only hold one track, with a maximum of 10.000 trackpoint. Normally you would download a track from an internet site, upload it to your GPS, select it and use trackback. On the Quest all tracks that are not named "ACTIVE LOG" (in capitals, followed with by number if neccessary) discarded during an upload, which makes it a bit more cumbersome. =8-/

How to use a (set of) internet track(s) on the Quest?

• import/load the tracks into Mapsource
• if they are not using the naming convention "ACTIVE LOG xxx", rename them
• if they are not in the right direction, invert them via the track properties
• create a descriptive waypoint at the start of each track to navigate there by road if needed
• empty the Quest tracklog
• upload the tracks to the Quest, since they are in the right naming format they will load now
• all tracks are shown as the normal bread-crum trail
• turn off saving new trackpoints to the tracklog, because otherwise doing a trackback will take you home again =8-)
• when at the start of the track, hold the OK button and do a TracBack from there. The Quest will find the nearest trackpoint and start a trackback. If the trackback doesn't start at the beginning of the track, make sure you are "on the track" and restart the trackback there. Now the tracks are shown in purple and the end- and startpoints are connected by straight lines, making all tracks to one big track
• zoom in enough to make the track show in a nice way, zoomed out too much it will look a bit odd in some instances
• the compass page now shows an arrow that points in the direction of the track you want to follow

The Quest can use tracks using this guide. And, with a tracklog of 10.000 points, it can probably hold hundreds of kilometers of track to follow this way. =8-)

NOTE: this is just one way of using tracks on a Quest. Another way is described in HOWTO: converting tracks into routes and use them as tracks.