Memory Map Adventurer 2800 GPS

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Memory Map Adventurer 2800 GPS

I bought the Memory Map Adventurer 2800 GPS at an exhibition, perhaps camping and caravanning, or some other outdoor activities show.

A review from Bike Radar.

A YouTube video from Memory Map.

I already had MemoryMap installed on my PC, both version 4 and version 5. This was a logical extension. It was to partially replace a Garmin Geko 201/301.

Not only did it have maps to follow but it recorded where you were and were you had been using GPS.

I had already used the Garmin Geko to great effect on a holiday in Wales, where the cottage we stayed in was well off the beaten track. Going for walks and being able to find your way back because of a track is very useful.

The position logs, or tracks recorded on the Memory Map Adventurer 2800 GPS could be imported into the PC Memory Map software, and as if by magic, there is the timings and the route taken. I not think I had a car Satnav at the time and I did not use the Memory Map Adventurer 2800 GPS as a substitute. They are different things for different purposes.

I think I already had a i-gotU GT-120 USB GPS Travel Logger. Again a very different product.

Change of host Sept 2023

In the begining of August 2023 I transfered my ivanhurst.me.uk sites, including this one from 123-reg to IONOS. It was meant to be a simple task. However, that was to to be the case. The reason for the move was primarily the hugh increase in price that 123-reg was applying regarding email boxes. Previously, the upto 500 of the boxes were included in the various hosting packages I had. Now they were going to charge for each mailbox based on size, and as far as I could make out, this was going to cost me nearly £2,000. This was not acceptable, and I did not get satisfactory answers from support. So I turned off all the auto renews and stated to move sites and domains accross to IONOS.

Travel data problems

This is where it starts to get a little technical.

The site is built on a content management system, CMS, using Joomla. Joomla is moving forward and version 3.10.?? is being discontinued. Future developments are for version 4.??

Similarly, PHP 7 is being replaced with PHP 8.

Part of the migration is relatively simple, I have already changed to a new template which works on the new platforms.

However, some of the helper applications, which work within Joomla are not yet ready.

Fabrik is one of those applications, if fact a significant 'Joomla Custom Website Application Builder'.

Site refresh Easter 2021

I decided to give the site a bit of a refresh over Easter 2021 and install a new template and some additional functions. One of the things I didn't like about the old site was the delay in text appearing which probably meant some people left before the content appeared. This has been disabled now.