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Shouldn't be a problem - turn it on, work out/confirm your position, set bearing on compass, turn it off. Follow compass bearing (if necessary) until you want to confirm your position and turn it on again.
But some people want the full track logging for downloading later and so on which would require it on all the time.
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But some people want the full track logging for downloading later .......
Why?
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To examine the route with a map overlay, to work out distances, altitude profiles. Compass bearings from one point to another, to save the route if they want to do that particular walk again, to send the route to others, to log when/where they want and so on. I can think of many reasons for a gps datalogger.
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