Gatekeeper Mapping

farmerfred86

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BASIS

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Suffolk

• Sep 19, 2013

• #1

With gatekeeper mapping is it possible to import A-B lines and field boundaries, save them and then export again to another device?
Or do you need to upgrade to the other two modules?

 

Clive

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Sep 19, 2013

• #2

farmerfred86 said:

With gatekeeper mapping is it possible to import A-B lines and field boundaries, save them and then export again to another device?
Or do you need to upgrade to the other two modules?

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yes its possible (easy in fact) - I do it - I have full mapping (PF module though so not sure whats standard)

 

farmerfred86

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Suffolk

• Sep 19, 2013

• #3

Clive said:

yes its possible (easy in fact) - I do it - I have full mapping (PF module though so not sure whats standard)

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Its all expensive but I dont want to go for the base mapping module if I cant do boundaries and A-B lines... The £300 annual support cost puts me off too! X3 if you go for all the modules!

 

drifter

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All over the place

• Sep 20, 2013

• #4

Gatekeeper mapping will not allow you to import A-B lines, as Clive said you will need the pf actual module to import device data and pf target to write data back out, if you are a JD man then there is always JD essentials which gives you the operational functionality of pf actual and target but geared for JD. Richard

 

CPP

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Location

Norfolk

• Sep 21, 2013

• #5

drifter said:

Gatekeeper mapping will not allow you to import A-B lines, as Clive said you will need the pf actual module to import device data and pf target to write data back out, if you are a JD man then there is always JD essentials which gives you the operational functionality of pf actual and target but geared for JD. Richard

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Was using gatekeeper this morning and could import a-b lines from Greenstar to GK and save them
Export them back to Greenstar

Also I was creating ab lines in gatekeeper and sending them to Gstar and autotrac with them

It's one thing that is easy in gatekeeper

 

farmerfred86

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Suffolk

• Sep 29, 2013

• #6

I think that might be a greenstar only feature of Gatekeeper... They teamed up to develop the software?!

 

Robt

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Location

Suffolk

• Sep 29, 2013

• #7

Most GPS systems can import and export ab lines , not just greenstar

 

farmerfred86

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Location

Suffolk

• Jun 12, 2014

• #8

Finally taken the plunge and got GK mapping... along with actual so I will now be able to see all of the combine yield data (and not be limited to the CLAAS software!) Costs seem to have come down too me too...

 

ajd132

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Arable Farmer

Location

Suffolk

• Jun 17, 2014

• #9

Pain in the arse getting claas data onto gatekeeper.

 

farmerfred86

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Location

Suffolk

• Jun 17, 2014

• #10

It looks like you simply do a device sync but with CLAAS .atf files?

 

Clive

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Jun 17, 2014

• #11

ajd132 said:

Pain in the arse getting claas data onto gatekeeper.

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Dead easy when you know how, I did have to show class(Soyl) support how though 2years ago !

 

farmerfred86

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Suffolk

• Jun 17, 2014

• #12

Clive said:

Dead easy when you know how, I did have to show class(Soyl) support how though 2years ago !

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Device sync Clive? Using the ATF files? Not sue if there is much advantage though over the class software?!

 

Clive

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Jun 18, 2014

• #13

farmerfred86 said:

Device sync Clive? Using the ATF files? Not sue if there is much advantage though over the class software?!

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advantage over claas software for me is that it brings yields into gatekeeper for output recording and store allocation etc plus data into mapping so I can then use it alongside other nutrient data etc to plan and create any VRA applications I might wish to in future years. I also find it easier to correct error in gatekeeper, as I can input actual weighbridge weight to fixed any error from the combine meter very easy

I do it via device sync, but you have to make some changes to set-up as it doesn't work out the box, I have the email I sent a while ago explaining how to do it, I will find it and post it here for you latter

 

ajd132

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Arable Farmer

Location

Suffolk

• Jun 18, 2014

• #14

i gave up trying to get it onto gk by device sync, that would be useful if you could post that clive.

 

Clive

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Jun 18, 2014

• #15

here is a copy of the email expalining how its done, its ISO you import under not the .aft files

 

Clive

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Jun 18, 2014

• #16

this bit needed to be done on 2012 machines after import as in / out of work was wrong way around in the ISO protocol - copied from email again

 

farmerfred86

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Location

Suffolk

• Jun 18, 2014

• #17

thanks for posting this Clive... Ill have a play in the next few days and try to get it working. I didn't realize you could use the yield/tonnage data... Could be handy!

 

farmerfred86

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Location

Suffolk

• Jun 20, 2014

• #18

So do you use the outputs feature of gatekeeper and then match the products of each crop from yield data to your outputs?

 

Last edited: Jun 20, 2014

TWF

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Arable Farmer

Location

Peterborough

• Jun 20, 2014

• #19

Clive do you use your Plot filter as well ? I find it usefull in tidying up maps esp. when cutting around electric poles etc. it gives plots a silly yield figure when shunting about.

 

Clive

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Jun 22, 2014

• #20

farmerfred86 said:

So do you use the outputs feature of gatekeeper and then match the products of each crop from yield data to your outputs?

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Yes, gives full traceability then from planting to loading out