Spatial Reference Manual
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Version 4.4
04/06/2019
11.6 Logging
Spatial Manager features a fully automatic logging system. Every time the serial port
connect button is clicked Spatial Manager starts a new log file in either the current
directory or the user's home directory. The log file is given the file name
SpatialLog_date_time.anpp and contains all of the raw data received from Spatial in
the AN packet protocol. The log files are closed when the serial port is disconnected. To
convert these log files into easily accessible formats, the log converter dialogue in the
tools menu can be used, see section 11.9.4. The log converter dialogue creates a
folder and generates files in the CSV (comma separated values) format that can be
easily opened with Microsoft Excel, Matlab, LibreOffice and most other data analysis
programs. It also creates a GPX file and a KML file of position that is designed to be
opened with Google Earth.
11.7 View Menu
The view menu contains a number of different options for viewing data from Spatial.
Illustration 26: Screenshot showing log file and log conversion folder
Illustration 27: Screenshot of Spatial
Manager view menu