B&G Deckman - Manual (Page 153)

Chapter 10: Competitors
10.4
Entering Competitor Positions
Once the details of competitors are entered (as above), control of the
Competitors feature is through the Competitor Information dialog.
This will be presented to you when you select OK in the Make the
competitor list dialog on first use of the Competitors feature;
alternatively, it appears when you select gmenu>competitors if the
feature has been used previously.
There are two ways in which the positions of competitors can be
entered, either automatically from position files (for instance, from the
race organizers) or manually. To use the automatic option, select File
Data and then browse to the correct file. (Note: with this option, the
format used may vary between races; contact B&G for more
information.) To enter positions manually, click Manual Data and you
will be presented with the Enter positions dialog. The operation of this
is pretty self-explanatory: enter the date and time that the positions refer
to, and latitude and longitude of each boat (as always, positive indicates
North and East, Negative is South and West).
Note. If you enter the positions manually, a text file will appear
automatically in the boats subdirectory of data. This allows you to go
back to previous data and compare how the relative positions have
changed.
The Competitor Information dialog
Whichever method you use to input the positions of competitors, when
you return to the Competitor Information dialog, the columns will
show the following:
Rnk Rank
Boats Boat
name
day/time Day and time of
entry
Lat Latitude