MacGPS Pro™ navigation software

Link your Mac with GPS receivers. Whether it's a daylong hike, 4x4 excursion, geocaching quest, ski trip or sailing voyage — you'll always know where you've been, where you are, and where you're going.
  • Flexibility: Support of open-standard format maps, aerial photos and charts, scan-your-own maps, as well as our own maps and charts.
  • Real-Time: Connect to NMEA 0183 from Serial port, Bluetooth, and USGlobalSat USB receivers. View your position on a wide variety of moving digital topo maps and marine charts on a Mac. Navigate to a “Go To” waypoint.
  • Waypoints, Routes, and Tracks: Create and edit. Use on the Mac. Transfer to and from many Garmin and Magellan receivers.
New features for version 9.3:
  • Auto-Open and Find-by-Location for Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, and Guam USGS topos.
  • Auto-Open and Find-by-Location for
    New Zealand Offshore Islands LINZ topos
  • Access to 50 additional waypoint icons.
Download $59.99
CD-ROM $69.99
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Both come with free incremental upgrades.

 

Macintosh® System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4.0 or later, including Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
Universal Binary provides native code
for both Intel® and Power PC processors.
Compatible with these popular receivers.
Transferring Waypoints, Routes, Tracks, and Real-Time data between your Mac and GPS receiver? It's navigation software that's as easy as navigating your computer mouse. List of supported receivers



Enhance every adventure.
Use MacGPS Pro beforehand to plot your route, or use it afterward to review your progress.



Create your routes and waypoints ahead of time.
View things like track speed when you're finished.


Works on the go.
You can keep your Mac laptop connected to your GPS receiver for a real-time on-screen display of your current location and speed.



Map and Chart Stitching with Automatic Margin Removal.
Got a trail that spans more than one map?
MacGPS Pro stitches maps together vertically and horizontally with ease.

The start of the trail is on one map.
The end of the trail is on another.
Both maps connected.
Maps And Listings.
View your GPS data in an Finder-like window with sortable, resizeable and movable columns.



Works with Google Earth.
If you love Google Earth, you'll love MacGPS Pro's KML file import/export capability.



Geocachers rejoice!
A treasure hunt with MacGPS Pro is as simple as 1…2…3, because the software imports caches in GPX and LOC file formats from websites like geocaching.com. It also exports GPX files to share with your friends.

1. Download the LOC cache from geocaching.com.
2. Open the cache file in MacGPS Pro.
3. Transfer the waypoint to your GPS receiver.
Prints Maps and Charts.
Print a map to carry with you on your travels.



Other must-have features that make MacGPS Pro navigation software one-of-a-kind.
  • Works with many types of raster maps—even those you scan in yourself—in the most popular file formats, including GeoTIFF, JPEG, PDF, PSD, ECW and BSB. Full List
  • Seamlessly stitches maps and charts together for USA, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand topo maps, ECW maps, and world-wide BSB-format marine charts. How It Works
  • Calculates your speed and travel direction based on track log locations and times.
  • Capable of handling up to 65,000 waypoints, 250,000 track points, and 50 routes with 300 waypoints on each route.
  • Graphically edit waypoints, routes and tracks. Split or join track log segments.
  • Generate Waypoints for your favorite geotagged photos.
  • Link photos, websites or any other files to GPS waypoints.
  • Hide individual Waypoints, Routes & Tracks.
  • Optional large real-time position display makes for easy viewing at a distance or a quick glance.
  • Save GPS data as editable, tab-delimited text files for exchange with spreadsheets such as Excel, database software like Filemaker, and text-editing applications like BBEdit.
  • Elevation feature allows you to plot the altitude profile for track logs and routes.
  • Almost anything can be used as a map. Just scan it, save it as a TIFF or JPEG file, and georeference it with a few known points. Full Instructions
  • Coordinate conversions to-and-from 123 user-selectable datums and 25 map projections plus user-defined datums and grids to support maps for a broad range of countries. Full List
  • Sky chart shows current and projected Global Positioning System satellite overhead positions at any specific location and time.
  • Includes Maptech® World Marine chart and NASA Blue Marble World Topo Map.
  • For those new to GPS, MacGPS Pro includes its own easy-to-follow, comprehensive illustrated tutorial in its Help menu.
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