Hi,

my Name is Patrick from germany and i found your programm a week ago.
I tested a bit and will buy it, i'm just thinking about "Pro" or "Lite".

I'm logging a lake with connection to a river.
Due to environmental conditions the depth changes often about some meters.
On an other Lake the depth changes due to heat and rain about 1 meter.

My idea would be:
Choose a track as "Normal Water Depth".
Then the programm could look for crosses with other tracks to fit them into the same depth. (Most of the Time you start at the same spot)
Maybe it could be taken a depth per day (by date), so that tracks from the same Date with no crosses could be fit by depth from date.


I hope it's understandable.


Greetings
Pat

The programe can correct depth. Takes a record as a reference, with a specific point that you check the depth. With each new record you check the depth and you correct your new record when it is added to your project.

Damn, i think i have to take a closer look at all the funktions.

Can you tell me where I find this funktion?

Greetings
Pat

Hi Pat,
From your first post I understood that you wanted some sort of automatic water adjustment, that compares track points across multiple tracks. I think this is troublesome because the risk of bad or different depths (for reasons other than a change in overall water level) is too high.

Better to use the water level adjustment feature in each individual track. Open up the track edit pane, and expand the "Tide" section. For your situation, where the water level might be different for each track, but does not vary during the lifetime of the track, it is enough to enter a single depth level.

• Select "Manual" mode.
• Add a depth using the depth point edit section at the bottom of the tide editor. If you enter a single depth, then all depths within the track will be adjusted by subtracting this depth. i.e. a depth of 5m will become a depth of 2m if you enter an offset of 3m. If you enter multiple depths, then RM will interpolate values between the points, and apply them to each track point, depending on the time (this option is more useful for varying tide levels).

Note that you can apply a negative depth offset, which will increase the depths within the track by the offset amount. This could be useful if you pick, say, the first of your tracks as the baseline and adjust subsequent tracks up or down to match. You could always find the approximate difference in track levels by hand, by examining depth points that are near to each other - although this method would be far from fool proof. If the water you are mapping has a depth gauge, then this would be the best source of level data.

Matt

Hi Matt,

yes, i thought about a automatic water adjustment.

Thanks for your help, then i'll do it by Hand. ;)


Pat